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Are shipping container homes actually good for the environment? The reality is more complex than it appears on the surface.

Shipping containers have become trendy statement homes, sustainable solutions to a need for housing, and durable replacements for traditional homes at risk from climate change. Myriad variables go ...

FERNDALE, Michigan – Its two-story, modern design stands out in the older neighborhood of many ranches and bungalows. Inside the front door, a floating staircase tailored from wood and steel leads up ...

IT TOOK AWHILE for shipping-container homes to come to Indianapolis (insert landlocked joke here), but the first one that arrived is extra-special—it’s designed by Travis Price Architects in ...

In the Fishers Nickel Plate District south of 116 th Street, developers have built dozens of modern homes on small lots where bungalows once stood. The custom and semi-custom 3-story townhouses ...

With their proposal to build a dozen homes from shipping containers on the South Side stalled, a pair of developers now plan to build homes made from the metal containers in south suburban Ford ...

Yes, I am from a generation when technology virtually did not exist. I barely looked at my store-bought toys, making holidays and birthdays a nightmare for my parents. As a child, my preferred toys ...

Puerto Rican architect Carla Gautier Castro stands overlooking the remains of a home after a string of earthquakes hammered the town of Yauco, on the southwest of the island. It’s a painful scene she ...

YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MI -- A local developer is building luxury-style homes out of shipping containers in Ypsilanti Township. Darius Smith, founder of ASJ Homes and the What’s Up Detroit show, is ...