In 2000, Pierce Brosnan bought two Malibu plots for his Orchid House: a 13,000-square-foot marvel of sustainability |

A look into what Pierce Brosnan did after he and his wife bought two Malibu plots…

From IIT Roorkee student to professor: How Avlokita Agrawal built a career around energy-efficient buildings

From IIT Roorkee student to professor: How Avlokita Agrawal made sustainable architecture her mission What began…

A Colombian man struggling to build his own home helped create Lego-like bricks from recycled plastic; by 2015 the system was sheltering 42 displaced families and could build a 40-sq-m home in 5 days

Houses with recycled plastic bricks in Colombia A Colombian architect has developed a construction system that…

In 2020, a Brazilian mother and daughter began collecting discarded bottles; years later, more than 8,000 glass bottles had become the walls of their seven-bedroom home that glows during sunrise

When people go on a trip, they make sure to carry back a suitcase full of…

A Missouri engineer bought remote Ozarks land in 1970 and slowly built a reinforced-concrete home into the hillside; more than 50 years later, his son is restoring it room by room

Built into nature: The underground home was designed to blend seamlessly into the Missouri Ozarks hillside.…