Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore, ...

A shabby stoop can crush a home’s overall curb appeal. And while building concrete steps is more complicated than pouring a ...

Leroy Rellergert has been in construction all his adult life. And for all of his adult life the Perryville, Mo., man has known that that the process to build concrete steps has been a drain on a ...

They’re like children’s building blocks, except these ones are designed to construct real houses. German start-up Polycare says its Polyblocks – made from artificial resin – provide an environmentally ...

Hannah Bird and her husband Charlie, both 26, decided to build their own house from scratch rather than buy a new-build ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

One of the most important elements in architecture are the vertical circulations that are translated into elevators or stairs, and although some offices decide to approach it in a discreet way, some ...