Competent gentleness: three Cold War engineers who built worlds for their families by Nicolás Boullosa on August 6, 2026 On an Ozark hillside and in the Maine woods, the quiet engineers of the postwar era are leaving, and handing …
Visionary dad built underground home. Son restored it to former glory by Kirsten Dirksen on August 2, 2026 For decades, Conway worked mostly alone, crafting a one-of-a-kind underground home into a Missouri mountainside — no permits, no architect, …
Underground mansion built in ancient cave maze has water spring inside by Kirsten Dirksen on June 21, 2026 Deep in the Arkansas Ozarks, past a flooded creek crossing and down a long limestone driveway, a door opens into …
Couldn’t afford a house. Now he builds his own underground Missouri home by Kirsten Dirksen on May 31, 2026 Kyle Yoder couldn’t afford to buy a home, so he’s been building one himself — by hand, with earth, rubble, …
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 …
20 years building underground maze of natural-light tunnel homes by Kirsten Dirksen on November 9, 2025 Twenty years ago, Zach and Allison Anderson began digging into a hillside on their property in Grass Valley, California, to …
35 years underground: Dan Price’s living free on tranquil river meadow by Kirsten Dirksen on August 17, 2025 For 35 years, Dan Price has lived underground in a tiny “hobbit hole” tucked into a quiet Oregon mountain meadow. …
He excavated earth-sheltered home of dry stone into rugged seacliff by Kirsten Dirksen on May 25, 2025 Dug into the mountainside and built with the very earth excavated to make space for it, Xerolithi House is a …
Couldn’t build higher. His Dugout backyard home grew upside-down by Kirsten Dirksen on January 29, 2023 When David Hills and Deborah Saunt began plans to build a home in the backyard of a 19th-century house in …
Wasn’t allowed to build on garden. Dug underground villa instead by Kirsten Dirksen on September 28, 2022 Brought up on James Bond, Chris Oakes saw the appeal of an underground lair, but his reasons for building a …
