As Heller told me, "Ken sort of took the position he took in The Affluent Society--'We even build our superhighways over them, on concrete stilts.' His position was, they were not a major element ...

Two neighboring homes collapsing within hours in Rodanthe have local officials urging visitors to avoid all beaches in town.

Split horizontally into three layers and raised 2.1 metres above the swamp on concrete stilts, the building integrates four modular buildings and a central courtyard. A shallow ramp leads up to ...

Almost all new construction in this region involves building structures on concrete stilts to escape flood water. For older ...

Workers are leveling the dunes with heavy equipment, while a few meters further on, others are ramming concrete stilts into the sandy subsoil. Heavy trucks are struggling through the sand.

Far out in the bay’s shallow waters, six shacks stand on rickety-looking stilts. Around that time, a man named “Crawfish” Eddie Walker constructed a small barge out in the bay, where he sold ...

"I ran out to our kitchen, and clung tightly to a concrete pole. Our wooden stilt house was destroyed." She said her husband had been staying overnight with family on higher ground, and rushed ...

"What the government wanted to do was to replace cultural houses that were falling into disrepair with concrete buildings on stilts," she said. Most of the repaired buildings retain original ...

Karma has revealed its latest creation, and it's called the ‘Ivara’. The Ivara is a four-door, all-wheel-drive, ‘multi-terrain’ grand tourer which previews its future ‘Comet Line ...

Recently, a small group of us – retired teachers, their spouses, and my nephews – made a trip to Pulau Ketam for a small ...

When a massive landslide crashed into her village in northern Vietnam, Hoang Thi Bay clung desperately to a concrete pillar ...