Less is more when it comes to a tiny home's weight, but when it comes to floorspace, more is more appealing. To balance these concerns, Vancouver's Mint Tiny Homes used a metal frame instead of the ...

Like a giant Erector set, a two-story, steel-frame house took shape this week inside a cavernous warehouse in Rohnert Park. It's the latest project of Sonoma County developer Hugh Codding, who built ...

The contemporary angles of the five bed, four bath house at 324 Kelly Avenue in Half Moon Bay hide a secret: Beneath the sleek, ultra-modern facade of this newly constructed house potential buyers ...

Perched upon a mountain a short drive away from Seattle, Washington, the Cantilever House combines a small-scale commercial steel frame with stunning modern styling. According to Anderson Anderson ...

The framing system for Bone Structure homes is made of steel tubes manufactured in factories and designed to connect together on-site. Photo courtesy Bone Structure. It was the aspiration of ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

CHICAGO - When Dale and Jill Jurecki decided they were ready to build a new home, they found a lot they liked in a nearby neighborhood and a model that, with a few alterations, would be just right.

“I’m just completing a new house that is a mechanical masterpiece,” writes Popular Mechanics editor Thomas Stimson in a 1955 article proudly titled I Chose a Steel-Frame House. “The house has a steel ...

Half a block south of Los Angeles’s ritzy Hancock Park neighborhood, a secret underground stream that draws its water from the mountains of Griffith Park runs across the backyards of several ...

In Santa Barbara, Valencia (the original, Eastern Spanish municipality, not the Western U.S. incarnation), a green grid can found rising out of the landscape. Embedded into the same stone as the ...