Talk to a farmer about building a farm shop, and you can pretty well tell what part of the country they’re from by how interested they are in insulation. Southern farmers are often indifferent to ...

A couple and their architect friend built a family home that celebrates hyperlocal building materials. By Tim McKeough When Joe Filippelli was completing architecture school at the University of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A Kenyan company makes building panels from mushroom roots that cost two-thirds the price of traditional materials ...

A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that some Kenyans say could ...