From earthships to container homes, sustainable architecture only continues to get more popular. One type of building that's making its way out of the off-grid margins is the cob house. Made of a ...

GREENWICH — Ask anyone from Cos Cob what’s going on in the neighborhood lately and new housing construction will probably be mentioned near top of the list. After a mini-building boom in recent years, ...

A Montana couple who built a home from clay and straw brings to mind “The Three Little Pigs” fairytale. But Daniel and Katherine Ray, the ambitious and frugal home builders, are not interested in ...

This retreat center’s storage building features an attached cob oven and natural paints. Learn modern cob house building for a mortgage-free home using low-cost and local materials by following how to ...

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“What would it take to raise a cob house in one day?” That was the question Coenraad Rogmans (of House Alive!) and I asked ourselves one sunny morning in September of 2013. We were at his place in ...

A rare thatched Quaker meeting house whose future was plunged into doubt last year is no longer at risk, Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register has confirmed. The Come-to-Good Friends' Meeting ...

Making homes out of clay, sand and straw — a material called “cob” — might raise eyebrows in earthquake country, but Bay Area devotees are hoping to gain acceptance for what they say is an inexpensive ...

VICTOR, Mont. — A couple in Victor is living a lifestyle created by their own hands, and now they’re teaching others how to do it themselves. Their home is on the grid, gets its water from a well and ...