Nobody wanted underground fixer-upper. He turned it into 4-story family fort by Kirsten Dirksen on November 8, 2026 Adrian and Jeff Young had been carrying around a photo of a dream house for years: an arched, glass-sided mountain …
Three-sided greenhouse house masters heat & cold in tranquil Nordic village by Kirsten Dirksen on October 25, 2026 Svend Buchardt is a light lover. Light, he says, makes him breathe, eat, digest, sleep, and live better. So he …
Couple’s indoor-outdoor natural life: underground pipes, double stove & cork by Kirsten Dirksen on October 11, 2026 A Swedish-Spanish couple turned an inefficient 1980s stucco house in a small Costa Blanca town into a bio-home that heats, …
After NYC, she moved to village dug underground: fixing 4 caves in 15 years by Kirsten Dirksen on August 30, 2026 After growing up in Manhattan, Thea Carini landed in Bourré – a tiny French stone-mining town with dozens of homes …
No bank loaned them money. They built dream Hobbit Home themselves by Kirsten Dirksen on December 10, 2023 When no bank would give them a loan for an earth-sheltered dome home, Steve Travis and Jeff Ingram began to …
Land was barren. He dug 10-acre underground village & orchard by Kirsten Dirksen on June 11, 2023 During the California heat wave of 1906, Baldassare Forestiere dug a home underground with just a pickax and shovel. He …
Modern building, ancient A/C: wind-tunnel facade cools apartments by Nicolás Boullosa on July 7, 2022 For three millennia, builders in the Middle East (where temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius) have been cooling their homes …
Drained water tank becomes curved, earthship-like sunken home by Kirsten Dirksen on April 3, 2022 Miguel Royo wanted to preserve the old well and cistern on his family property by turning it into a home. …
25Verde apartment jungle is an ecosystem of 150 trees, 60+ apartments by Kirsten Dirksen on January 16, 2022 With 150 trees sprouting across 5 floors of terraces, balconies and roof gardens, apartment complex “25 Verde” rises like a …
T-shaped dark megalith hosts back-to-basics young family home by Kirsten Dirksen on August 25, 2019 To create a light-filled home on a small plot where an adjacent building blocked the southern sun, Tilemachos Andrianopoulos elevated …
