May 27th 2011 11:43AM
On the morning of Nov. 24, 2007, Brad Stanley and his wife Anita watched as their home in Malibu, Calif., burned to the ground. They were not alone. More than 50 other homes were destroyed in the wildfire. With everything they owned now gone, the family had to start to process of documenting their losses to file for an... Continue Reading »
Oct 4th 2010 2:07PM
Lou Andrews Smith is a homeowner in Sacramento who decided to let his flood insurance lapse for two reasons. "First, it just cost too much -- I had the standard policy and it's $1,400 a year now," he says. "Second, we've had years of drought and near-average rainfall. I don't live near a river or lake, so I don't feel that... Continue Reading »
Feb 25th 2010 5:45PM
Shortly after the devastating earthquake struck Port-Au-Prince, noted architect pioneer Andres Duany flew to Haiti with plans for building durable, affordable housing in the shattered country. Duany, a celebrated archtitect who has masterplanned whole towns and claims to have written the definitive book on "smart growth"... Continue Reading »
Jan 20th 2010 4:20PM
Once the residents of Port-au-Prince are medically stabilized who is going to help rebuild Haiti? A design-build team at Clemson University's School of Architecture has a green solution for quickly finding homes for the thousands of displaced Haitians following last week's catastrophic 7.0-magnitude earthquake and today's... Continue Reading »
Dec 18th 2009 11:00AM
A group of California apartment-dwellers have gotten a bit more than they bargained for with their ocean-view abodes. The residents of 330 Esplande Avenue in Pacifica, Calif., were evacuated on Thursday amidst fears that their cliff-side building is about to slide into the Pacific. The building's dramatic perch has been... Continue Reading »
