A basic snow fort or snowball fight bunker is easy enough to slap together. Snow can be rolled, scooped or shoveled and packed together into sprawling ramparts that provide some protection from your ...

On Germany's highest mountain guests can check into an igloo like in a hotel - or build one themselves, like DW reporter Tankred Gugisch. He tells us how. Since doing things in pairs is double the fun ...

What's more certain, although perhaps surprising, is that the humble igloo has a lot to teach the modern British house-builder. Last year, a report by the government's architecture watchdog, Cabe, ...

This is the epic igloo made in Yorkshire as a thick blanket of snow covered parts of the UK. The 4ft tall igloo was constructed from around 50 to 60 snow bricks which were made, sand castle-style, by ...

Using a simple triangular frame, a few shovels packed with snow and ice and a deep respect for traditional building methods, New York-based artist and designer Nikolas Bentel manged to construct an ...

A German artist named Ralf Schmerberg has created an igloo out of fridges in a square in Hamburg, Germany, to draw attention to energy use and climate change. To make that point, alongside the ...

An igloo created with indigenous Martian ice was the winner of the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, a competition sponsored jointly by NASA and America Makes. The finale for the first phase of the ...

Note from Dan: Sunday, reader B.R. Culbertson (that's her on the left) sent me photos of an igloo some of her neighbors in Blacksburg constructed after the recent storm. She put me in touch with Jodi ...