English cave dwellers that inspired Tolkien were evicted by Kirsten Dirksen on October 3, 2022 At one point, the sandstone caves of Kinver’s Edge were home to 44 people, and in the 1960s, they were …
Porto’s cramped hayloft becomes tiny, daylit modern studio by Kirsten Dirksen on December 11, 2016 When Portuguese architect Florêncio da Costa was asked to turn an old hayloft into a guesthouse, he created a clean, …
Viking era’s wooden Norse church in shape after 800 years by Kirsten Dirksen on November 27, 2016 With the conversion of Norway to Christianity (beginning around 1000 AD), wooden “stave” churches were built across the countryside. Over …
