As they say, one door closes and another opens. A Lewiston design firm, Shelter +7 Inc., has had a long-term working relationship with a West Gardiner builder who now wants to dial back his workload.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marie Saldivar’s experimental metal-clad dwelling is the perfect place to host family—and proof of concept for her new prefab ...

Designed by architect Marlon Blackwell, PS1200 is a mixed-use development with apartments, offices, a restaurant, a coffee shop and a gallery, all built from modified Quonset huts. Tim Hursley / ...

Emerging now on an empty Detroit lot is a taste of a unique housing project designed by a Los Angeles architect with world-class credentials and financed by a New York City developer and entrepreneur.

PEORIA HEIGHTS — Developer Kim Blickenstaff hopes to resurrect on Prospect Road in Peoria Heights the ghost of a Hilltop landmark. "The plans are evolving," said Greg Birklund, the manager of an ...

From war relic to blueprint for climate-resilient communities. The Quonset hut story did not end in 1945. Its DNA lives on in modern refugee shelters, emergency clinics, and tiny houses that echo its ...

Jim Cook said his family home in Makaha was a Quonset hut. Their Model A Ford pickup was parked in front. From 1941 to 1945 the U.S. military mass-produced more than 150,000 of the shelters, making ...

Philip Kafka’s Detroit home — a sloped, steel Quonset hut — certainly stands out. That’s all right, says the 30-year-old, who splits his time between Detroit and New York. It’s supposed to. Kafka said ...