Venezuela knew a quake could topple these buildings. It built them anyway.

Public housing was supposed to be able to withstand powerful earthquakes. Instead, a Post investigation found that those ...

Is the Palisades being rebuilt to burn down again?

The Pacific Palisades is rising from the ashes of the costliest wildfire in U.S. history — but some building experts fear Los ...
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California construction company builds fire-resistant homes as San Diego County faces daily wildfires

A California construction company is building fire-resistant homes in San Diego County, where wildfires have broken out every day this week.
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Bamboo tiny homes survive a 7.7 magnitude earthquake. They were built for the price of a smartphone

These simple one-room homes could be a new blueprint for scalable disaster housing.

In the 1970s, one New Mexico architect began building homes from discarded tyres and cans; his Earthship idea is now being adapted for extreme weather

In the New Mexico desert, discarded car tyres, beer cans and bottles became the unlikely foundations of a different kind of ...
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BRIN quake-resistant homes stand after 7.7-magnitude quake

Three earthquake-resistant prototype homes developed by Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) remained ...

In 1926, Pittsburgh left a fruit merchant with a roughly six-foot-wide lot, and he responded by constructing a three-story commercial building

In 1926, Pittsburgh fruit merchant Louis Hendel turned an awkward remnant of downtown land into one of the city’s notable ...

The Soviets rebuilt this city. Now their work is receiving global attention

One of the world’s most intriguing, yet lesser-known, architectural treasures has just been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage ...