Want to turn a shipping container into a garage? Here's what you need to know first

Converting a shipping container into a garage is a very real possibility, but there are some important factors to take into ...
Yahoo

Shipping containers as affordable housing units were proposed. Pushback followed.

How Corpus Christi approaches a proposal to use shipping containers for affordable housing may set a precedent citywide. The concept proposed by developer Bryan Johnson would employ steel shipping ...
The Mercury

Upper Pottsgrove proposal would use shipping containers for storage

UPPER POTTSGROVE — Township commissioners were recently presented with a plan to partially develop a self-described “eyesore” at the end of Commerce Drive. This is the plan Richard Almquist presented ...
KPBS

Shipping container buildings may be cool — but they're not always green

Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...
USA Today

Arizona group converting shipping containers from makeshift border wall into homes: 'The need is huge'

PHOENIX — Some shipping containers that once stood on Arizona’s border to keep people out are now being converted into tiny homes that welcome people in. Wholistic Transformation, a Tucson, Arizona, ...
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A Texas man built a 6-story treehouse with his family and friends using 4 shipping containers. It's available to rent on Airbnb for $330 per night — take a look inside.

Steve Taylor spent a year and a half building a treehouse in Ladonia, Texas, using four shipping containers. The 50-foot structure has a cantilevered design, where one end is supported by steel beams ...