A just-finished waterfront vacation retreat in Longboat Key, Fla. has a contemporary style, is energy efficient and sits on 14-foot-tall stilts, putting its living area 17 feet above sea level. In the ...

A vacant beach house built on stilts has collapsed into the sea off the coast of North Carolina. The impact was so severe that it inflicted structural damage on a neighbouring house which crashed into ...

The state’s Coastal Resources Management Council this week rejected a controversial proposal by a Narragansett man to build a house on an undersized lot in wetlands adjacent to the Narrow River.

BEAUMONT, Texas — One Beaumont homeowner is thanking government funding for helping her not only survive Harvey but for making changes to her home so that she never goes through that horror again.

A steel-framed glass bungalow perched on stilts jutting over a private lake in Hampshire could make for a spectacular commuter home — or impressive retreat within easy reach of the capital. The ...

These things are totally bizarre, traditional McMansions jacked up in the air on stilts to get above the floodlines set after Katrina and Sandy. There used to be a real vernacular of houses built on ...

Traditionally, when we think of buildings built upon stilts, we think of small houses located near an ocean or other bodies of water. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

The thrill of watching planes land in incredibly challenging places never gets old: there's this one between cliffs in Peru, this one that shuts down Gibraltar's main road, and the wind-whipped runway ...