If artists are influenced and inspired by their surroundings, the Deep Cavern Studio from designer Claudio Hebberecht is the ideal artist's residence.

Covering a balloon with papier-mâché, letting it harden, and popping it to leave behind a delicate empty shell is a grade school arts and crafts tradition. For architect Nicoló Bini it's a technique ...

Every generation witnesses its own advances in building technology. Balloon-frame construction was a major advance over the previous method of post-and-beam construction, whereby skilled carpenters ...

Last fall, when winds raged to 109 miles per hour, Fairplay residents Keith and Sylvia Wortman noticed the stormy weather only from the pine needles hitting their front window. When residents on ...

No Place Like Dome: BYU Students Design, Build Futuristic Home. CREDITS: Producer: Julie Walker; Videographers: Adam Sanders, Barret Schoenrock; Editors: Adam Sanders, Emily Hyatt For the first time ...

SULLIVAN'S ISLAND — When Huiet and Helen Paul lost their beachfront home to Hurricane Hugo in 1989 — just as they were finishing up a $175,000 renovation — they didn't just rebuild. They rethought.

The Taj Mahal, Texas State Capitol and Roman Pantheon put dome-shaped structures on the map, but now people are using those same design elements to build doomsday shelters. In Italy, Texas, an entire ...

The Pantheon's dome, the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, is still standing despite being nearly 2,000 years old. Stephen Knowles Photography via Getty Images Ancient Roman ...