When merchant navy professional Guru Dutt Goswami takes time off from work he comes to stay in his ancestral home in Palampur in North India. The mud structure, built decades back along Himalayan ...

Building a house means different things to different people. For Nishwath Hassan and Prakash Iyer, a Bangalore-based couple in their mid-30s, it has meant putting theoretical beliefs about an ...

Shibam in Yemen which has the oldest skyscrapers (of mud) in the world A mud building when we’ve already built buildings with over 100 storeys? As we march on after the Industrial Revolution, ...

KOCHI: Choosing eco-friendly options has become the new fad, especially among the urban populace. It was architect Laurie Baker who pioneered cost-effective architecture and designs with the embedded ...

“For example, certain parts of the building require a certain amount of mud and clay and a certain quantity of soil,” he explained. Old neighborhoods in the heart of the city of Hail, in northern ...

Right in the heart of Kolkata is a surreal sight from a bygone era. A little over 100 metres from Quest, the plush mall with international brands near Park Circus in south Kolkata, are a cluster of ...

Lagos – Mr Jide Awe, an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) expert says the Federal Government’s proposal to demolish mud houses would amount to phasing out the country’s indigenous ...

Simple mud concrete bricks provide the most affordable and sustainable houses in the tropics, a Sri-Lankan study suggests. Comparisons of four different types of walling materials revealed that mud ...

A need to address a lack of housing for the globe's growing population has turned up some eye-catching efforts, blending creative architecture with new, sustainable technologies. And it is ...

Villager Pov Kong adds a finishing touch to his mud-walled house. Banteay Kraing, Svay Rieng: In 1936, Pailin's heart of love was revealed when Cambodian writer Nhok Them published his novel The Rose ...