This retreat center’s storage building features an attached cob oven and natural paints. Learn modern cob house building for a mortgage-free home using low-cost and local materials by following how to ...

Despite its huge environmental benefits, cob is an extremely niche construction material. As part of our Building with Cob series, architecture editor Lizzie Crook explores what it would take to ...

Balecob, a hybrid of straw and cob house building techniques, can offer unique flexibility to the natural builder. Start with a strong cob house stem wall. We live in exciting times for natural ...

Do you find yourself staring at concrete walls, daydreaming about an idyllic life close to nature? Does the sight of drywall make you want to pack your bags, lock the door, and run off into the forest ...

Dezeen's latest series investigates one of the world's oldest building materials – cob. Building with Cob will explore how this ancient, earth-based material is being reinvented for the modern age.

Probably. But be prepared to make the city planners your new best friends. Steve Pfeiffer, engineering and technical codes manager for Seattle's Department of Planning and Development, said cob falls ...

It's time for the construction industry to bring back cob, but innovation is needed to solidify the age-old material's place back within our toolkits, design collective Cella tell Dezeen in this ...