Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Over in Brazil, a local architecture studio, Plano Livre, ...

THE COUNTY ORDERED ONE BREVARD HOMEOWNER TO TAKE DOWN STACKED SHIPPING CONTAINERS IN HIS BACKYARD. HE SAYS THE COUNTY INITIALLY TOLD HIM IT WAS OKAY. WESH 2 SCOTT HEIDLER SPOKE TO THE OWNER AND ...

Black liberal arts college Fisk University has been making headlines recently for taking the appropriate action to decrease the high demand for student housing in Nashville, Tennessee. According to ...

One way to spend time living in a shipping container is to stow away on a box ship bound for Australia. Another is to enroll at Fisk University, where students will be able to live in residential ...

Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s five-month effort to close gaps along the U.S.-Mexico border with shipping containers will cost Arizona taxpayers more than $200 million when all is said and done. The ...

Ah, the unassuming shipping container. It's really nothing more than a big steel box with a couple of doors. At any given time, millions of containers are piled on ships plying the world's waterways.

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 ...

Some call it a boondoggle. Others say it’s a good deal. The perspective depends on whether you’re the seller or the buyer. In August 2022, then Arizona Governor Doug Ducey issued an executive order to ...

After his longtime home was damaged in Hurricane Irma, a local artist/collector made the "impractical" choice to patchwork together a metal base for himself and his eccentric possessions.

Gaps in fencing along the US-Mexico border can be a dramatic – and sometimes puzzling – sight. Miles of tall steel bollards end abruptly, giving way to open space or much smaller barriers that are ...

When the cost of a single-family home hewn from wood and traditional construction materials is out of reach for many low-income Phoenix residents, and hell, some middle-income earners too – the ...

A six-story building in downtown Phoenix is made almost entirely of shipping containers on the outside. On the inside, visitors will find vacation rentals with all of the essentials, along with a ...