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Avoid Making One Major Error When Building A Concrete Block Garage
Concrete block garages are sturdy, stable, and fairly easy to build, but if you want them to last, you have to follow steps ...
Building Zambian homes with local materials delivers benefits that imports don’t: study
In Zambia, a project using local materials to build houses, instead of imported steel and concrete, resulted in benefits for ...
London's best brutalist homes — from the Alexandra Road Estate to the Barbican
The Smithsons are best known for their late-Sixties Robin Hood Gardens social housing project in Poplar. Demolition of the ...
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Is your home ready for the next hurricane?
In the eerie silence of a neighborhood torn apart, stands a loud reminder of Melanie Hardegree’s survival: her solid, ...
Letters to the Editor: Other countries don't build homes out of wood. Follow their example
When entire neighborhoods burn down, we fail to identify the biggest cause: In the U.S., we still build homes with wood.
Sweden is Building the World’s Largest City Made Entirely From Timber
Stockholm Wood City is swapping polluting steel and concrete for a more climate-friendly construction material: timber.
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Letters to the Editor: Other countries don’t build homes out of wood. Follow their example
Few countries in the rest of the developed world build homes with wood. Instead, they use concrete blocks or masonry, which do not catch fire. The United States ranks low in fire safety worldwide.
Indented Head: Family building their house live in a caravan on-site for 12 months
A family slept in a caravan and cooked in their shed while building an epic entertainer’s house in Indented Head.
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Studio Merlin adds extension with wildflower meadow roof to London home
Studio Merlin has updated Hoj House, a Victorian home in Stoke Newington, with a wildflower-topped extension that draws on ...
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Power house: Balcony extensions and communal garden room in Zürich, Switzerland by Lütjens Padmanabhan
Additions including solar power to a co‑operative housing block in Zürich by Lütjens Padmanabhan aim to extend the ...
This Obscure Office Is at the Center of Elon Musk’s Efforts to Harness Federal Data
An obscure government office is at the center of Elon Musk's efforts to target federal data and advance Trump's agenda ...
Grenfell Tower – what happens now?
To demolish high-rise buildings, engineers often opt for 'top down' techniques, whereby a number of small, car-sized ...