Architect Jorge Fortan cements his case for a concrete and foam sandwich house. This TreeHugger has never been fond of concrete, preferring straw and sticks as building materials for houses, but then ...

Despite being ubiquitous in countries around the world, particularly in Europe and South America, concrete homes are still fairly rare in the United States when compared to the hegemony of wood.

You usually can’t spot a concrete house when you’re standing outside or even inside one. Laura and David Owen didn’t know that the two-story house they wanted to buy in Olathe, Kan., featured ...

Australian Architects Peter Poulet and Michael Harvey contemplate concrete’s green side with The Concrete House, a free-flowing assembly of gravity-secured precast columns and slabs that the designers ...

Walkthrough a cement house from 1909 via this Radford Architectural Co. trade catalog. Alexia MacClain When it comes to building a new home, there are so many things to consider. Should it be ...

John Craft, owner of Kaw Valley Home Care, stops along the stairway of one of his recently built homes at 1417 Prospect Ave. Craft believes that the home is the most energy efficient in the area, ...

On October 29, 2012 Hurricane Sandy battered the Jersey Shore area in New Jersey, bringing in four-foot tidal surges that dislodged many homes from their foundations. Homes slid into the bay, floated ...

The production of the cement used in concrete is a major contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions and since we're reliant on the stuff for our infrastructure, this is a serious problem. However, Nendo ...