"Even though the house is so old … using new techniques ... just seemed fabulous." Expert claims more homes should be built ...

Maintaining the sikien (mud tower-houses) requires the perpetuation of local building traditions and the use of local materials. The natural environment has suffered from some over-exploitation and it ...

Adobe brick houses are made from a special kind of mud called adobe ... A skyscraper is a really tall building with lots of floors! They are built by stacking up many smaller floors on top ...

In Sierra Madre, residents were building wooden walls outside their yards and packing up their cars to leave Wednesday as they braced for possible mudslides with this week's storm — facing mandatory ...