David and Carrie Chew live in a house made of straw. It has two bathrooms, a modern kitchen and a packed earthen floor. The exterior walls are made with stacked wheat straw bales covered in ...

A Montana couple spent $20,000 building a 2-bedroom house, and now they're debt-free. There's just one catch: The house is made of clay, sand, and straw.

VINES new office building will mark the first commercial straw bale building in the northeast and Binghamton’s first Net Zero Energy building.

A house made from straw, water, mud and hemp - said to be the first of its kind in the UK - has gone on sale for £600,000. Known as the Cob House, construction of the three-bedroom property in ...

Would you ever live in a house made of straw? It might sound unusual, but this company in Missouri is proving that this ancient building technique is not only durable and efficient, but it is also ...

Made of a mixture of clay, straw, water, and sand, cob houses may be new to many folks in the United States, but they've been around for thousands of years and have been known to last for centuries.

VINES new office building will mark the first commercial straw bale building in the northeast and Binghamton’s first Net Zero Energy building.

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A year after giving away his company, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard has completed a home made of straw bales in Ventura, California.

After building the Stanley Cup display for the Red Wings and aiding in Hurricane Katrina recovery, Midland resident Allen Switala is now building a straw house.

Atelier Kaiser Shen has used straw bale construction to create an interlocking semi-detached house in the village of Pfaffenhofen, Germany.