Concrete blocks are a common way to construct a retaining wall, but that doesn't mean they're the best or only way. Here's an ...

This material is the opposite of concrete block in a few ways, most notably in its color and how it can help your retaining ...

Following the popular Rusty House in London, we've collected 10 residential buildings with striking Corten-steel – a type of weathering-steel – facades in this roundup. Among the buildings featured ...

For plant people, greenery usually trumps hardscape, but it's impossible to talk about one of the creations of Davis Dalbok and Tim O'Shea without bringing up steel. Dalbok, owner of Living Green ...

Designboom shows a cute modular house that the architects, James & Mau, call a "living box." It has natural ventilation, passive solar design and "an intelligent façade." It's called "Casa Menta" or ...

When one thinks of an artist who works with massive, rusted Cor-ten steel, Richard Serra might be the first name to come to mind. But it was actually 96-year-old Beverly Pepper who was the first ...

This Corten steel footbridge arches across a new bypass in Spain to connect the small town of Sant Pere Sacarrera with a network of woodland pathways (+ slideshow). Spanish civil engineers Alfa ...