4-generation family builds container fourplex atop giant missile silo by Kirsten Dirksen on February 22, 2026 After purchasing a Titan II Missile Silo Complex in Arizona—decommissioned in 1983 and buried under concrete and dirt for more …
Homesteading from the Homestead Act to YouTube. A real American Dream? by Nicolás Boullosa on February 19, 2026 The tools changed from axe and almanac to solar and smartphones, but the old wager remains: live deliberately, outside the …
Engineer’s underground dome home blends into desert like living organism by Kirsten Dirksen on February 15, 2026 In 1983, engineer Greg Reinhart bought a patch of raw land in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert and began carving out a …
Invisible architecture: how the way we look at things shapes reality by Nicolás Boullosa on February 12, 2026 We don’t just move through the world: we can help compose it with attention (and intention). The same street can …
They lived 3 years in a basement. Then built their dream backyard home by Kirsten Dirksen on February 10, 2026 For 3 years, Mai Tran and Le Pham lived in a 300-square-foot basement beneath the house they’d just bought in …
Couple buys whole ghost village, tells others to join & fix their own ruin by Kirsten Dirksen on February 1, 2026 On a freezing winter day in northern Spain, we arrived in Bárcena de Bureba, a ghost village in the remote, …
The housing ladder broke ages ago. What can prefab & modular do? by Nicolás Boullosa on January 29, 2026 Blame interest rates. Blame investors. Easier than admitting America stopped building enough homes, never modernized construction, and quietly relies on …
When the alarm never stops: attention in an age of permanent emergency by Nicolás Boullosa on January 22, 2026 In a time of constant alerts, moral urgency, and outrage, attention dissolves into a permanent state of alarm, eroding judgment. …
Military couple turns forsaken mountain ruin into off-grid family oasis by Kirsten Dirksen on January 18, 2026 After leaving Navy careers behind—Maartje (18 years) and Clemens (22 years)—this couple packed their lives into 8 suitcases, sold or …
The elephant’s belly: an urchin living inside Napoleon’s monument by Nicolás Boullosa on January 15, 2026 Some monuments were never meant to be inhabited. Yet in 19th-century Paris, a child lived inside the hollow body of …
