This innovative abode requires less building materials than traditional stick-built homes, making it a sustainable option for new cottages. The skyrocketing price of lumber is making people think ...

Anchored at the Severn marina in southern Ontario's cottage country are two 53-foot-long shipping containers. They're the home of Joe Nimens — and the model for the year-round floating cottages he'd ...

An Airbnb property advertised as a “cottage” in Amsterdam turned out to be a shipping container with mattresses on the floor. British tourist Ben Speller had booked the listing, which cost around £100 ...

Adam Kalkin isn’t the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers. A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction ...

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 ...

Building a container home was a dream come true for homeowners Shawn and Mike McConkey. Mike, an architectural engineer and construction superintendent was able to do a good portion of the building, ...

The Doug Ford government is aiming to slap restrictions on floating homes that are provoking controversy in Ontario's cottage country. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry cites "an increase ...

The hotel is located on the seaside of Yokohama where the cottages were staggered randomly on the site, giving the resort as a whole an organic look. Not much has been done to the land where the ...

The skyrocketing price of lumber is making people think twice about building a cottage. Saltbox is a Halifax-based company that has a sustainable solution to this problem — converting old shipping ...