Buying a new house means making lots of choices. But long before you choose between Roman and roller shades, you make the biggest decision: Should you buy a custom, spec or tract house? The choice ...

L3P Architekten recently produced a good argument for building on such sites, with the House Vineyard Dieseldorf: an unusual glass-fronted concrete home located in a cramped plot in Dielsdorf, ...

From the outside, one cannot tell that this whole Palo Alto house is lifted 3 feet off the ground. Photo by Mariko Reed, courtesy Klopf Architecture. Creating a new 2,928-square-foot home to fit ...

Narrow lot, narrow house: How new construction can fit in Duluth's otherwise empty 25-foot lots The city needs housing. Narrow, long houses on otherwise unused land could help.