Baking in the warmth of California’s Cumaya Valley stand three small structures made of an ancient building material: cob. The material is a mixture of clay-heavy soil, straw, sand and water that — ...

Do you find yourself staring at concrete walls, daydreaming about an idyllic life close to nature? Does the sight of drywall make you want to pack your bags, lock the door, and run off into the forest ...

From earthships to container homes, sustainable architecture only continues to get more popular. One type of building that's making its way out of the off-grid margins is the cob house. Made of a ...

GREENWICH — Ask anyone from Cos Cob what’s going on in the neighborhood lately and new housing construction will probably be mentioned near top of the list. After a mini-building boom in recent years, ...

Having moved on from the more delicious sweet corn season of summer, we now find ourselves laden with weird hard flint corn, sometimes called Indian or ornamental corn. And in truth, there are not all ...

The house that £150 built: Farmer builds one-bedroom home from mud, clay, and materials found in a skip - all without a single power tool A farmer has built a one-bedroom house for just £150 using mud ...

imprinted its view of prehistoric suburbia on many a mind. at the "iconic architectural setting" and its designer, Ed Benedict, who also designed the characters in the show: Benedict dreamt up the ...

When members of Solano Canyon Community Garden set out to build amphitheater seating on their piece of Elysian Park, they knew there was only one way to go about it. “Part of the agreement with the ...