Amid the absolute devastation in Los Angeles neighborhood Pacific Palisades, where fires have reduced blocks of homes to charred rubble, there is a single house on Iliff Street that remains intact.

Architects across New York have embraced Passive House design, a German energy efficiency standard slowly gaining traction in the states. Despite its name, this new approach to building design can be ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Look around and you can find gingerbread house ideas just about anywhere online and offline. Sure, you could follow whatever directions are included in a gingerbread house making kit, but you’re ...

AUSTIN — The three-bedroom, 2 ½-bath house recently built in east Austin has all the earmarks of a mid-century modernist Texas ranch: clean lines, large windows, a flat roof and plenty of wood, inside ...

A new contemporary-style four-story row house planned for a lot on Joralemon Street — used for decades for parking – was met with general support at a New York City landmarks meeting on Tuesday. Jon ...

Veteran designer Vicente Wolf ran into different frustrations. “Key furnishings I counted on were sold out, fabrics were unavailable, and promised items didn’t materialize,” the designer says of his ...

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