Concrete homes are common worldwide but less familiar in the U.S., raising questions about their cost, construction, and long ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Lance Anderson is the owner of Lance Anderson Construction Inc. (Yankton, South Dakota) and maintains a passion for precision with every foundation and wall he constructs. On average, he and his crew ...

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 ...

Mexican studio PPAA has created a blocky concrete house on a narrow site in Los Angeles, California, USA, carving out ...

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 ...

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 ...