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Shipping Container Homes: 8 Innovative Designs

First Posted: 04/26/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:35 PM ET

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The rise of innovative green architecture has created in increasingly in-vogue practice: rejiggering, stacking and linking rugged and versatile freight shipping containers and transforming them into fully inhabitable homes.

Below are eight particularly eye-catching recycled shipping container dwellings -- ranging from off-the-grid vacation retreats to beachside palaces to traditional-looking three-bedroom family homes -- that we wouldn't mind coming home to (at least for a couple of nights).

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01:58 AM on 02/25/2010
Wouldn't it be awesome if someone with the means and money could buy up a few thousand shipping containers and turn them into homes for the people of Haiti?
03:18 PM on 02/24/2010
Interesting. Wonder what the costs are like? I also wonder if they'd work in a place that gets a lot of hurricanes, like Florida.
11:42 AM on 02/24/2010
I've seen some really cool shipping container homes and offices, and it's great to see them catching on in popularity. I know land is expensive, but there could be an answer to housing problems in there, somewhere.
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11:12 AM on 02/24/2010
Innovative but not particularly affordable. Manuf. housing can go wider and longer (16'x66').
But then again not particularly affordable, it's the land underneath that costs.
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10:34 AM on 02/24/2010
They really look cool. And they could be inexpensive to build.