The useful way to read these is as solutions rather than as homes. Each one is addressing a specific physical problem, and the structure follows from the problem rather than…
What makes these places worth visiting is not the spring itself but what a community does when free heat is available indefinitely. The answers are remarkably consistent. Here are ten.…
These are working burial grounds and should be treated as such. They are also, by design, significant works of landscape architecture and among the quietest and best-planted spaces in the…
The recurring problem is the same everywhere: sleep appears to be necessary, and being asleep is dangerous. Almost every solution below is a compromise between those two facts. Here are…
Animal navigation combines several systems at once, which is why removing one rarely stops an animal entirely. Here are seventeen of the tools involved.
1. Reading the Earth's Magnetic Field…
The technical term is an erg. What makes one worth travelling to is usually the dune form - linear, crescent, star or transverse - because the shape records the wind…