Tag: Housing Industry
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They're Baaack: Average House Size Shoots Up To Highest Ever As McMansions Return
The 1% are the only people who can qualify for a loan, and they like big houses.
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R-House Modular Prefab displayed at Canada's National Home Show
Is it an innovative new prefab home design, or is it simply a new model home for green sprawl?
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Tall Wood: Architect Gives Away Technology To Build Wood Buildings Thirty Storeys High
Wood is the greenest building material, but its use has been limited to buildings a couple of floors high. Not any more.
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American Houses Are Getting Bigger Again, Because The Only People Buying Are The 1%
We thought the McMansion was dead, but the building business is just following the money.
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Do Smoke Detectors Save As Many Lives As We Think?
We are relying on technology that is better as a kitchen appliance than a life saver
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Happy Birthday Thomas Alva Edison. You Were Right About Direct Current After All
Tesla fans won't like it, but at age 165, Edison is winning the current wars. I, for one, welcome our new direct current overlords.
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Is Sustainable Home Construction Booming? It Depends Who You Calling Sustainable.
While it is true that what is conventionally called "green" construction is increasing, is it really sustainable?
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Build a Solid Wood Safe Room In Your House with the HabiFrame Storm Shelter
Your house may blow away but you won't, if you are in this Laminated Strand Timber room.
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The Week in Pictures: Newt Gingrich's Colony on the Moon, a Folding Microcar, and More
Newt Gingrich wants a colony on the moon -- here's what it could look like. A folding car is headed for production, Porto Alegre may have the world's most beautiful street and more.
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Most Popular Articles of January: Astounding 3D Sculptures from Books, Indigenous Amazonian Child Burned to Death, and More
The best of January includes amazing landscape sculptures carved from old books, a logging horror in the Amazon, a cycling superhighway, and more.
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Tiny House Too Small? Sweden Says Yes
Student housing is at a premium in Sweden, encouraging builders to be efficient. But the Swedish Housing Authority says not too efficient.
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Survey: Are Solar Panels On A Subdivision A Good Thing, Or Are They Lipstick on a Pig?
Sami and I debate the virtues of free photovoltaics on a subdivision house. We disagree; you decide.
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2012 New American Home Doesn't Suck, Isn't Model of Everything Wrong With The Housing Industry
Every year, a New American Home is built for the big International Builders' show, and every year I call it awful and embarrassing. This year is different; it is still too big, but there is a lot to like in it.
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Quote of the Day: Newt Gingrich On Urbanity
Do Americans really still believe this after what they have been through in the last five years? This man is completely deluded.
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How To Build a Resilient Design: Make it Smaller, Higher, Stronger and Warmer
Alex Wilson at BuildingGreen explains how resilient building is really green building. In great detail.
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The Week in Pictures: Paris' High Line, Eco Travel Destinations, and More
It turns out Paris has its own elevated railway park, and it's been around since 1993. We also have the best eco travel destinations for 2012, a floating home for urban animals, and more.
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Engineer Modernizes The Traditional Cruck Frame With Modern Framing and Straw Bale
Mixing The Best of Modern Materials With Traditional Form
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"There Goes the Neighborhood." Two Ways to Deal with Foreclosed Homes
While some cities are tearing down thousands of vacant homes, Occupy Our Homes movement offers a compassionate alternative.
