In Detroit, one developer has turned Quonset huts—better known for their use on farms and military bases—into affordable, efficient housing. On a half-vacant block a few miles outside of downtown ...

Marie Saldivar’s experimental metal-clad dwelling is the perfect place to host family—and proof of concept for her new prefab company. "I always take on a bit too much," says Marie Saldivar, which, it ...

Since the late 1940s, a curious corrugated metal hut has been nestled among the Victorian shotguns and grand center-halls a half block from the river on Desire Street in Bywater. The squat, ...

Living in a U-shaped structure with a corrugated metal exterior, Detroiter Courtney Henriette doesn’t just hear the rain when it falls. She can feel it. “Because the walls are so thin, when it’s ...

From a "rammed earth" house in Jones, to a made-over classic mid-century modern home in Oklahoma City's Edgemere Heights, to a vintage Bricktown warehouse married to a 1940s Quonset hut, this year's ...

When David Robert, a helicopter pilot from Lafourche Parish, LA, flew over the Gulf Coast in 2005, he saw firsthand the destruction wrought by a trio of hurricanes that swept through the region: Cindy ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Federal inspectors are investigating health and safety complaints made by firefighters at the Army’s Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii island. The federal firefighters say ...

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 ...

When a reader wrote in to ask “What is the history of the Quonset hut buildings that are now homes on the south side of Davie Boulevard, just west of I-95?” we suspected that the homes were likely ...