Australian Architects Peter Poulet and Michael Harvey contemplate concrete’s green side with The Concrete House, a free-flowing assembly of gravity-secured precast columns and slabs that the designers ...

Architect Jorge Fortan cements his case for a concrete and foam sandwich house. This TreeHugger has never been fond of concrete, preferring straw and sticks as building materials for houses, but then ...

You usually can’t spot a concrete house when you’re standing outside or even inside one. Laura and David Owen didn’t know that the two-story house they wanted to buy in Olathe, Kan., featured ...

As every Avengers, Fast & Furious and James Bond film has taught us, supervillains are bad. That said, some of them have redeeming qualities—like impeccable taste in secret hideouts. Architect Reza ...

Program: The clients wanted the house—which is situated on a ravine near the city center—to have a strong connection between indoor and outdoor spaces, and to encompass a modernist sensibility, with ...

As the construction industry moves toward greener solutions, the push for sustainable, energy-efficient buildings grows. Global energy consumption for buildings accounts for nearly 40% of total energy ...

The internationally acclaimed Seattle-based architecture firm Olson Kundig has completed its final residence at The Houses at 8899 Beverly, a bold new concept in West Hollywood. Following their design ...

From the outside, this building in Oaxaca, Mexico looks harsh and fortress-like. It’s a monumental concrete structure with no windows in sight. In fact, all that is visible in its inscrutable facade ...

Homeowners across the U.S. are running out of options when it comes to protecting their homes. The problem is that climate change has increased the risk of catastrophic damage due to windstorms, ...

Try building a house without any of the materials mere Earthlings use to build houses. That’s the challenge facing astronauts as they move forward with colonizing Mars. They’ll either need to bring ...

Japanese authorities, wanting to better protect communities in future, chose to build bigger defenses. Concrete walls that span 400km and reach nearly 15 meters high in places now line the coast to ...