PORT TOWNSEND — A giant “Lego”-style structure is slowly taking shape on a quiet side street near Port Townsend — a homemade training tower that could someday make the difference between life and ...

Oscar the Grouch isn’t the only one who loves living in a metal bin. Some Phoenix residents also have a taste for living in metal bins stacked on top of each other. Eighteen Phoenix families are ...

Property owners, developers, and even media personalities are thinking outside, ahem, inside the box, and transforming metro Phoenix into a prominent hub for container homes. This year, Phoenix has ...

When Mark Derenthal couldn’t find an architect or builder to take on his ambitious concept, he worked directly with an engineer to create the treetop retreat. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a ...

Though we appreciate shipping container-based architecture when it's done right, the ubiquitous metal boxes don't seem a good basis for a skyscraper. Still, the dream of a container tower refuses to ...

Columbus, Ohio is now home to what is probably the world’s most unique parking booth. The firm behind the design, JBAD architects, turned an old shipping container on its end to create a 40-foot-tall ...

The interior volume of the home was filled with a container tower made up of four shipping containers. The tower was actually fitted to intersect with the original carriage house skeleton, which ...

Once upon a time, you had to buy passage on a freight ship headed out to sea in order to see a stack of containers piled high to the sky all around you. Nowadays more and more architects and builders ...

Minimalist living and downsizing are still very much "in" right now, but that's not to say there isn't any room left for getting creative. And "creative" is just the right descriptor for this home, an ...

(11-07) 14:44 PST SAN FRANCISCO - A container ship bound for South Korea struck a tower base of the west span of the Bay Bridge today, tearing a gash in the hull and spilling fuel in the bay but ...

FRENCHTOWN, Mont. - Welding sparks may have started a fire in Stone Container's old Kamyr digester tower. Frenchtown firefighters responded to smoke rising from the skyrocketing landmark late this ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Developers are planning to build a 53-story tower on Rainey Street where two bars already sit. The two bars that could be knocked down are Bungalow and Container Bar, located on 90 and ...