When a New York couple—she’s an arts entrepreneur; he’s a high school counselor­—bought 15 waterfront acres on the North Fork of Long Island, they envisioned a single-story house with ...

the latest housing craze requires hydraulic jacks, pylons and stilts. One home towers over its neighbors like a cruise ship. Others look like expensive tree houses. "People are stopping in to ask ...

John Pardey Architects has revealed plans for a £1.1 million house on stilts for a flood plain in Berkshire The site for the proposed home is on the banks of the river Loddon, a tributary of the ...

ASHAROKEN, N.Y. -- When James Zima built his dream house on a small cove facing Long Island Sound back in 1978, he studied storm records and built his cedar plank home on stilts, 2 feet above the ...