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Just north of I-75 off Trumbull near Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, a three-story building made from shipping containers reaches into the sky. The building may look boxy on the outside – red steel ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An unusual shipping container condo project proposed for a West Colfax lot won’t be all it was stacked up to be. The couple that wanted to build Stackhouse, ...

Travis Price recently designed a condo building made of shipping containers in Shaw, and the architect is now bringing the same concept to Brookland. The residential building will go up on the site of ...

More shipping container condos are being built in Detroit. Right now, at least three new condominium complexes made out of shipping containers are in the works. A six-story, 8-unit complex is being ...

An artist's depiction of "The Cargominiums," which is scheduled to be finished in early 2017. If you watch reality TV or use do-it-yourself sites like Pinterest, you've probably seen garages, bunkers, ...

$3.4 million project will be built near Wayne State University Containers would be stacked four high with plumbing, stairways and heating added Finished condo units will range in size from 850 to ...

We've seen a shipping container Starbucks, office building, and hotel. Now, Detroit is the latest to join the recycled shipping container architecture fad. The condo development, known as Exceptional ...

Detroit — The company that plans to build condominiums out of shipping containers has bought land just west of the former Tiger Stadium site in Corktown and intends to start building soon, said the ...

A four-unit condo building planned in Shaw is going to be built with some unconventional materials. Rob Carter is developing the project, which will include four two-bathroom, two-bedroom units and is ...

A proposal to build the city's first shipping container housing project will head to city hall Tuesday. David Penner Architects has submitted designs and variance requests to build a three-storey ...

A new condominium project that could see a Toronto developer build Winnipeg's first multi-family housing complex out of shipping containers has cleared its first major hurdle at city hall. *Special ...