Readers may remember when a historic, three-story, brick house was taken down on Mud House Road in 2015 (E-G 22 Sept. 2015 E-G, and Towne Crier 16 October 2015). It was (and still is) often referred ...

Traditional mud-brick houses that the people of northern Syria have built for thousands of years risk disappearing, as 12 years of war have emptied villages and left the buildings crumbling. Also ...

The house of an adobero is identifiable by the quantity and type of stuff in the yard. Those who work with adobe are natural scroungers and re-users: a heap of leftover mud bricks from someone’s ...

What image comes to mind? We've spent a fair amount of real estate in our past newsletters discussing coded words and phrases — shortcuts that writers use to evoke images or themes, often unfairly. An ...

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MASSAKO, Mali (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Building a house in the poorest villages of southern Mali has for years involved cutting trees for timber frames and struggling to save cash for a ...

Also knowns as 'beehive houses', the conical adobe structures keep cool in the blazing desert sun, while their thick walls also retain warmth in the winter ...