There is a building material available almost everywhere, requiring no processing, no fuel and ...

Imagine you are standing in front of a multimillion-pound building in the centre of the French city, Lyon. It radiates warmth and history with its rammed earth structural walls. Two hundred miles away ...

Earth architecture is built on a far-reaching history. Its story continues to be told through aged structures that have stood the test of time. Across the world, indigenous earth construction ...

When people think about the most important ingredient for life on other planets, they usually talk about water. But there’s another element that makes our existence possible. “We’re carbon-based life ...

Sand on Mars could be turned into a building material using gelatin and living yeast. It would be cured by the freezing cold ...

Earth as a building material is, simply, as old as the hills. As a small child I remember modelling a ‘Saxon’ village in clay, an exercise which might not have met modern curriculum standards but ...

How many buildings are on our planet? Roughly 2.75 billion, as captured by a team from the Technical University of Munich. They've rolled out the most detailed 3D map of Earth's buildings to date, ...