West Coast Green, the home show dedicated to sustainable home construction and design, kicks off its three-day run Thursday at the San Jose Convention Center with a logical centerpiece: a house made ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Over in Brazil, a local architecture studio, Plano Livre, ...

Founder, Michael de Jong came up the idea for the MEKA after years of building luxury homes in Belize, hiring Jason Halter and Christos Marcopoulous for the design. Michael states, “Many prospective ...

Completed in March 2019, this modular home in the East Hampton town of Amagansett, Long Island encompasses a kitchen, four bedrooms and three bathrooms within 1,800 square feet of living space. Four ...

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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 ...

Matt Hickman is an associate editor at The Architect’s Newspaper. His writing has been featured in Curbed, Apartment Therapy, URBAN-X, and more. Many shipping container homes are stacked and linked ...

In Ernest Cline’s wildly popular novel, Ready Player One, people have been reduced to living in mobile homes stacked 10 and 20 high, bolted together with little more than rivets and bubble gum. Now, a ...

MB Architecture was commissioned to design a vacation home for a family of five on a limited budget. The firm used six shipping containers to create a four bedroom house that it says was significantly ...

It’s no surprise to see the popularity of shipping container homes increase in recent times, especially when architects just keep getting more and more creative with what they can do with them. Adding ...

Theres a lot to be said for paring life down to the essentials. If youve ever lived in a cramped shoebox apartment you probably discovered there are actually benefits to a simplified lifestyle: you ...

Explores a mix of housing solutions, including ADUs, container homes, and modular. Join the Brick by Brick team of solutions journalists as they look at three more supply-side responses to the housing ...