The home at 28 Hideaway Place, Bywong is uniquely made from straw bales which offers some surprising sustainable benefits.

Yvon Chouinard, founder of outdoor clothing brand Patagonia, has added straw bale home construction to the long list of his environmentally friendly deeds, Fast Company reports. Straw-bale ...

Instead of the conventional stone building, the health centre has used straw bale — materials made entirely out of farm waste, readily available from wheat farms throughout Kenya — to ...

JUDY KNOX AND her husband Matts Myhrman say Tucson is on its way to becoming known world-wide as the center--if not quite the birthplace--of straw bale construction. This weekend Out on Bale ...

This year, straw from Lithuania will envelop a building in the quiet town of Todmorden ... a slightly more high-tech version of the simple straw bales that have been used by some eco-friendly ...

In places with some of the harshest winter conditions in the lower 48, people are insulating their houses with straw. The ...

Straw bales are not generally considered to be premium construction materials for buildings — but for this Binghamton-based group, they have allowed the creation of a new headquarters.

Atelier Kaiser Shen has built House Hoinka in Germany. All six facades of Haus Hoinka utilise the straw bale construction method, including the roof and floor slab. To protect the straw bales from ...