The seven homes in Shirehampton, Bristol were constructed as part of an EU-funded joint research project with the University of Bath and the architectural firm Modcell. The team behind the project ...

Less than a mile from Napa’s 2017 fire ravages, designer-builder John Swearingen of Skillful Means is constructing a curious house: one made of compact, industrial-strength straw bales. Homeowner ...

A University of Michigan green building class plans to unveil a sustainably-built, straw-bale house located at the Campus Farm next Monday, May 29. Led by Joseph Trumpey, an assistant professor of art ...

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The Eichler family - mom Monika, dad David, 5-month-old Elyse and six-year-old Lauren - live in a straw bale home in Leavenworth County just northeast of Lawrence. On the outskirts of David and Monika ...

A mix of desert climate, high performance goals and the insight of a leader in sustainable design has yielded one of the first LEED Gold-certified straw-bale buildings in the world. Resource- and ...

Straw bale houses of the western Nebraska prairies were comfortable places built where there were no trees or sod. In Lancaster County, straw - the leftover stalks of wheat, rye, oats or, sometimes, ...

LITTLE ROCK — When the first of the Three Little Pigs tossed up a flimsy house made of straw, the Big Bad Wolf blew the house in and ate up the pig. This English fable goes on to describe how Pig No.

JUDY KNOX AND her husband Matts Myhrman say Tucson is on its way to becoming known world-wide as the center--if not quite the birthplace--of straw bale construction. This weekend Out on Bale, the ...

When Kate Calvery came to me in early 1996 and asked me to design a straw bale house for her on Vashon Island, my heart sank. I had attempted to permit a straw bale house a few years before in King ...

When I moved into my new Philadelphia rowhouse, I was determined to grow the vegetable garden that had eluded me all those years in a cramped Manhattan apartment. But reality struck with the first ...