The afternoon light turns the water golden, reflecting the slender trunks of melaleucas back onto themselves from the surface of the billabong. A waterfall thunders down a five-metre drop beneath a ...

Representing the meeting of two worlds, the intersecting circles of this symbolically rich building posed numerous technical ...

“When you beat dirt into tires, they become rammed ... entry. The three-bedroom, two-bathroom house includes artistic stained-glass windows, bathrooms surrounded by multicolored glass-bottle ...

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When entrepreneur Sandy Lawrence set out to build a home on the side of a rocky hill overlooking Napa Valley, she envisioned something that looked like it was growing out of the landscape. So she ...

These walls were made out of rammed earth: dirt that had been compressed and compacted and compressed to the point where each one was as solid as any concrete wall.

They primarily use rammed earth—which, for the unfamiliar ... Hand Over doesn’t use steel in any of their buildings, instead relying on wall-bearing systems that don’t require columns ...

It was at that moment that I began to fully appreciate how much rammed earth homes allow you to live fully surrounded by nature, including the walls that protect you. It was my first visit to ...

That said, once Wall-E abandons the silent-movie-inspired romance of its Earth-set first act, it becomes clear that the animated film is as much a portrait of humanity at large gone dangerously ...

While Hive Earth is not quite an architecture studio, its potential in transforming architecture practices is impressive. The outfit, which pioneers rammed-earth construction ... such as feature walls ...