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On an Ozark hillside and in the Maine woods, the quiet engineers of the postwar era are leaving, and handing off.

My father-in-law, now suffering from Alzheimer’s and unable to recognize us, grew up with a twin in the Bay Area. Those were times of free-range rearing, and the twins, growing up in the steep streets of Sausalito overlooking the bay and the City in fron...

For decades, Conway worked mostly alone, crafting a one-of-a-kind underground home into a Missouri mountainside — no permits, no architect, just him and his son growing up right alongside him, and an occasional friend.

Conway was an engineer who spent his career in the region’s lead mines and never lost his fascination with trains — and he put both to work her...

Rankings keep crowning the Danish capital. A few days there recently, sleeping among somebody else’s books, suggested the secret is less mysterious than it sounds.

The snowbird migration now runs in reverse when the Mediterranean gets too hot: a summer visit to Copenhagen. Just as Scandinavians chase the sun in winter, we flew north to cool down in mid-July, trading...

Priced out of Madrid, architects Ignacio and Pilar bought cheap land on the outskirts instead – a steep, sloping lot thick with pine trees – and used their modular prefab system (Tini) to build a home that fit the hillside perfectly without cutting down a single tree.

It’...

A steel chassis has been mandatory in factory-built homes since 1976, but >90% of those homes never move. Section 301 of the ROAD Act ends the requirement.

Many people counted the month of July in World Cup matches. Now that the month is ending, most have gone back to measuring the summer the other way, in heat days and fire events: the Canadian fires that threat...