Matt and Barbara Mooney worked with Michael Gooden of M Gooden Design, a boutique design firm in Dallas, to build a home out of...

These shipping containers have left their itinerant lives as vessels that carried goods around the world, only to be reborn as...

You’ve decided to join the shipping container revolution.

Every week, we highlight one amazing Dwell home that went viral on Pinterest.

From eye-popping hues to bold patterns, here are styles to suit anyone bored with white-on-white.

From the whimsical to the austerely beautiful, the contenders in this year’s Dwell Design Awards are singular sanctuaries.

Sited on a typical 25-by-100-foot corner lot in Brooklyn, this 5,000-square-foot residence was built with 21 stacked shipping...

These 20-foot shipping containers are repurposed into stunning luxurious hotel rooms.

Shipping container hotels—quite literally—keep popping up across the globe.

Proudly made in Mexico, these customizable container homes celebrate local design and environmentally friendly materials.

It’s easy to buy into the hype around shipping container homes, but there are some fundamentals you should know before going all...

In South Korea, shipping containers have been used to build amazing projects including an art school, low-cost housing, a...

From preliminary guides, to lists of trusted companies, to exemplary floor plans, these resources will get you started on your...

Built for $200,000 and lowered into place by crane, a compact cargotecture office perfectly slots into an architect’s backyard.

Two San Francisco art and travel addicts overhauled a loft—and customized a pair of shipping containers—to accommodate their...

From start-to-finish, prefabricated shipping container homes are revolutionizing the homebuilding process for the better.

We have seen shipping containers being repurposed for uses ranging from housing to hotels—so it's only logical that some...

Designed by one of America’s leading cargotecture proponents, this modern shipping container home in New Jersey is seeking a new...

On a tree-lined street in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, a former carriage house from the 1930s is now a colorful modern home that...

A shipping container home tackles temperature control in a tropical environment.

An attractive shipping container house shows the benefits of prefab living.

An architect-turned-falconer considers animals and nature when designing his own home.

In upstate New York, LOT-EK tests a new prefab production process, installing an efficient prototype that merges six Cor-Ten...

There’s even a shipping container sitting in the kitchen.

This portable dwelling, made of two shipping containers, is ready for its next move.

Transforming ubiquitous corrugated boxes into sleek pop-up homes, shops, and shelters, Cocoon Modules is redefining what a...

We can barely contain our excitement over this year's awe-inspiring projects.

A two-story prefab made of shipping containers offers a speedy solution to shortages of space on this college campus.

Three dozen shipping containers find a safe port in a modern apartment building in Mexico.

Shipping containers are ubiquitous in Houston, though unlike the four that make up this new home, they’re usually filled with...

Nine corrugated steel boxes form the basis for a multigenerational prefab house near Denver.

The Boulder, Colorado homeowners clad the house in reclaimed wood and filled the interior with a colorful collection of...

Think outside the rectangle with these space-efficient shipping container designs.

This charming two-story beach house is simple, functional, and can be towed to any beach or barge

Gone are the days when shipping containers were used solely for transportation and storage.

Wrapped around a mature oak tree, a light-filled shipping container home embraces the outdoors in more ways than one.