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Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz has been immortalized in sci-fi and horror thanks to its distinct look.
Surf Block Maui is a Hawaiian company that has found an unlikely second life for leftover surfboards – for use as a building ...
Omahan Dorothy Pettit's idea for neighborhood homes being places of sanctuary for children to and from school spread nationwide in the middle 1960s.
Buy the Block is an initiative to build new, high-quality single-family homes in under-invested areas of the city. Mayor Malik Evans announced on April 30 that open houses for three, newly built ...
Did you know one of your favourite toys as a child had a history worth hundreds of years? Building blocks have always played an important part in education, childhood development, and creative ...
Surf Block Maui is able to generate enough material to build 10 to 20 houses a year. Seller said the system has the potential to upcycle even more. “Now if we were to get into all of the foam ...
Avon is now the first municipality in Colorado to offer end-to-end Styrofoam recycling. All Eagle County residents can drop off clean, white, hard Styrofoam with no tape or casing attached in the ...
The host laid the groundwork for what was billed as one of the series' most ambitious homes yet ... the race was on to join the blocks of polystyrene together. However, they soon hit ...
Grand Designs viewers have made their thoughts clear on a groundbreaking build (Picture: Channel 4) Grand Designs viewers have expressed their disbelief over a ‘gloriously mad’ project that ...
When you're done working on your latest home improvement or repair project ... then it's time to get organized. Picking up a few blocks of polyethylene foam might be the perfect way to get started.
Architecture firm Hawaiʻi Off Grid is looking at the waste from surfboard building, to be exact, hoping to divert the polystyrene foam offcuts into cinder block-like forms for home construction.