Belo Horizonte-based Tetro Arquitetura e Engenharia has completed the Inclined Slab House, a contemporary residence on a steep slope with full-height windows that blur the boundary between indoors and ...

SARASOTA -- When you're buying a house, you look it over carefully. You search the roof, the walls, the floors, for flaws. But what about the bottom? If only you could see underneath the house to look ...

Katsuya Fukushima and Hiroko Tominaga of FT Architects have completed a residence called Column and Slab in Tokyo, Japan. The three-storey building is situated on a narrow 5 x 14 metre site. Eight ...

This house, set on a steep slope covered with typical Brazilian savanna vegetation, is located in front of a preserved area facing mountain views. Its location strategy, longitudinal to the terrain’s ...

Indian studio 3dor Concepts has completed The Slab, a family home in Kerala that is protected from the elements by a facade of wooden louvres and a large concrete roof. Situated on an elevated and ...

The city and the Wichita Area Builders Association are forming a task force to set standards for slab-house construction and soil stability testing, hoping to get new rules in place by next spring.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When we first published FT Architects’ work, the e-House, in W*106 we knew we were on to ...

Wichita has fewer regulations in place to protect consumers who buy concrete-slab houses than several Kansas cities surveyed by The Eagle. According to building officials in those cities, all have ...