Couple couldn’t find affordable high-end prefab, so they created their own by Kirsten Dirksen on July 27, 2026 Priced out of Madrid, architects Ignacio and Pilar bought cheap land on the outskirts instead – a steep, sloping lot …
Family wraps 2-container homestead in greenhouse to improve health & mood by Kirsten Dirksen on July 19, 2026 Anki lives inside a greenhouse. It started with two affordable prefab containers on a plot of land at the edge …
He stacked 64 containers in high-end solar skyscraper of 18 condos by Kirsten Dirksen on February 25, 2024 He had already stacked containers two and three stories, but with his Ida apartment complex, Brian Stark went 85 feet …
Uber driver saves money to build hand-cranked Expandable Home by Kirsten Dirksen on January 28, 2024 Ten years ago Kamal Kadhar began dreaming about a home that could be easily transported around the world and could …
Off-grid container home uses pulleys to lower/raise bed & deck by Kirsten Dirksen on July 19, 2021 Vojtěch Valda’s shipping container house runs on wind, solar, and pulleys. He and his carpenter brother converted the 20-foot (6 …
Shipping container motel honors 2nd life of salvage by Kirsten Dirksen on October 17, 2020 On a former ranch in Round Top, Texas (population: 91), Flophouze hotel is made of six converted shipping container cabins …
Container home brings high-end functions to tiny prefab market by Kirsten Dirksen on August 29, 2020 Concerned about the California housing market, friends Nate Garnero & Doug Burdge decided to make a high-end, prefab container home …
3-story container townhouse shines in street art vibrant alley by Kirsten Dirksen on June 7, 2020 When Carl Cassell started his restaurant in Toronto’s Queen West, land was affordable; now it’s not, so when he and …
Brothers build boreal utopia of open-roof cube cabins in nature by Kirsten Dirksen on November 3, 2019 On a piece of land purchased by their grandfather in Charlevoix, Quebec, Jonathan and Simon Galarneau have built a dozen …
On designing a stackable, bioclimatic shipping container home by Kirsten Dirksen on March 4, 2019 Motivated by her love of mobile homes and bioclimatic design, as well as the surplus of shipping containers at Athens …
