Santa Cruz County homeowners embraced backyard cottages after state and local reforms made accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, ...

This video investigates 33 Thomas Street, the windowless Manhattan skyscraper believed to be one of the NSA’s most important surveillance hubs on U.S. soil. Built as a machine fortress for AT&T’s ...

Those windowless data fortresses rising across metro Phoenix are not just gulping electricity. Arizona State University researchers say the heat they dump into the air is drifting into nearby ...

If you’ve ever searched “hack for…”, you know the internet is stuffed with shortcuts, some sketchy, some genius. The real gold, though, comes from people who actually do the job every day. Those are ...

In the lobby of the 11-story tower at 1550 Bryant St., a small cafe serves office workers snacks, coffee and … cans of Hamm’s beer. Fifty years earlier, the site was home to Hamm’s California ...

The gravel lot is quiet, the building squat and windowless – about the size of a small hockey rink. There’s a machine humming from somewhere inside, but not enough to drown out the lowing of cattle ...

It is a Wednesday night, and we are gathered in a Brethren meeting hall, a windowless low-rise brick building in a business park on the outskirts of Hereford. There is no artwork, no cross, no pulpit ...

With building codes strict and land values high, Big Apple apartment blocks tend to be grim. But two firms, SO-IL and Tankhouse, are fighting back with lush courtyards, breezy landings – and ...

American land-use reformers intent on addressing present-day housing shortages have, for the last decade, focused their efforts on amending zoning codes—the very rules that gradually downzoned most ...

City Council is seeking to increase development allowances and tackle several quality-of-life issues for students and residents around the West Campus area. (Ben Thompson/Community Impact) Taller ...