He says he laughed when some friends first told him about houses built of straw.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

The part that showed above the water line was built of wood sixty centimeters thick.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The hotel was built of wood. Gas was used to light the building.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

It is built of bronze and granite.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

About nine hundred years ago, the Ancestral Puebloan people built villages high in the walls of canyons in Mesa Verde,Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

The leader of the world's Roman Catholics blessed the cornerstones of two churches to be built next to the river.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

A reputation -- what people think of you, good or bad -- is built one message at a time.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

He and a team of researchers there have built a house made out of straw bale and hemp material.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

As part of the plan, the Army Corps of Engineers built roads, canals and water-control systems throughout South Florida.

VOA: special.2010.09.21

Workers built a huge system of waterways and pumping stations to control the overflow of Lake Okeechobee, north of the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The concrete and glass museum is built next to a body of water, so it almost seems to float.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

It is one of many religious buildings that ruler Augustus Caesar of Rome had built to honor Egyptian gods.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Other work now began. This work would make the dam into one of the largest producers of electric power ever built.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Many of the new parents moved to homes in the new suburbs built outside the urban environment of cities.

VOA: special.2011.07.21