In an era when business is being transformed by largely intangible inventions like the internet, email and mobile communications, there is perhaps no obvious reason to get excited about the fiftieth ...

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense. When I was back in architecture school playing with shipping containers, it never occurred to me to treat them as empty boxes. Shipping containers ...

Thinking inside of the box may become the newest trend for creative thinkers thanks to this new 12-unit office and studio building called the “Box Office.” Constructed of 32 shipping containers, the ...

THE NOTION of shipping things in standardised boxes seems obvious in retrospect, so why did shipping containers take so long to emerge? Host Tom Standage finds out how difficult it was for this simple ...

More than a dozen food, retail or office complexes made from shipping containers have opened across Britain within the past three years. The figures, from research by Radio 4's You and Yours programme ...