A corrugated metal roof topped by a skylight shelters the timber-lined interiors of Amami House, an off-grid home in Japan ...

It’s hard to say what’s cooler about the Japanese shōya house at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens — the centuries-old wood structure that was once the center of a small ...

If you look upward at the exposed roof beams inside the “Japanese Heritage Shōya House”—which is what the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif., calls this transplanted three-century-old Japanese ...

Looking back, Gloria Fischer had no idea what she was getting into buying the house in Prospect Park South. The singular bungalow, Fischer’s first home in Brooklyn, came into her life through a wrong ...

With a shrinking population and more than 10 million abandoned properties, the country is straining to match houses with curious buyers. By Tim Hornyak When Jaya Thursfield found a house he wanted to ...