Living in a cob house isn’t something homeowners do to blend with the neighbourhood, and Patrick Hennebery knows this firsthand. He lived in a cob house on Mayne Island for 10 years.

To conclude our Building with Cob series, we have collected eight buildings that demonstrate the potential of cob as a modern ...

Dezeen's latest series investigates one of the world's oldest building materials – cob. Building with Cob will explore how ...

When completed, it will be the first code-approved, load-bearing, high-occupancy two-storey cob house in North America. "We look at ourselves as being very mainstream," says Ms. Baird, 40.

The home - believed to be the 'largest cob building on the planet' was built a stone's throw from the cob house Mr McCabe shared with his then wife and their family.

Cob is an earthen material that is made of mud, sand and straw. The all-women collective Mudgirls has been building cob houses that resemble Hobbit homes on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands ...

Daniel and Katherine Ray live debt-free in a 700-square-foot cob house that they built by hand. The couple now runs a business teaching others how to build their own sustainable houses amid rising ...

There are several reasons cob houses are becoming more popular stateside. Unlike some green building methods, it's very affordable, with costs as low as $5,000 if you do it yourself.

Cob Cottage is now so popular most of next summer is already booked, and Borsboom said weekends are taken up to a year in advance. Other properties on the most wished-for list include a three ...