Architectural design comes in all forms. In the case of the newly opened IDA on McKinley apartment building, that form is six stories of steel shipping containers that make up commercial and ...

The Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York is celebrating its 30th anniversary with an ambitious plan to build a new building made of old shipping containers—the site’s first permanent structure.

This story appears in the Aug. 31 print edition of Transport Topics. There is nothing glamorous about shipping containers. Their existence generally is one of sheer duty, hauling cargo from one point ...

In 1937, a young trucker named Malcolm McLean was delivering a load of cotton to a harbor in Hoboken, New Jersey. As he watched workers slowly transport the boxes by hand onto a ship, the story goes, ...

“The design concept was just to stack them like they would be in a container yard," architect and designer Douglas Hecker says of the Smoky Park Supper Club. “We wanted that association between the ...

Seattle Architect Matthew Coates, President of Coates Design Architects, has teamed up with Aircraft Structural Engineer James Green of Building Container LLC, to create a container home like no other ...

Tardis Structures is offering a fresh alternative to traditional construction. The business, located at 402 N. Old Route 66 in Hamel, repurposes shipping containers to build sleek, modern, and ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. High demand has convinced Falcon Structures CEO Stephen ...

reporting from Kaohsiung, Taiwan — They’re used as roadside betel nut stands. Tool sheds for farms. And increasingly, as houses, offices, retail showrooms and restaurants. They’re the 40-foot steel ...

A building under construction this summer in Country Club Hills has caused plenty of area residents and motorists to pull over, take photos and scratch their heads, wondering if what they were seeing ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.60.1.0043 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/transportationj.60.1.0043 Copy URL Abstract Containerization and its impact ...