Some of IKEA’s furniture can’t even be ordered online … but a whole house? Yes, they will ship and build it all for a price that one might expect from them: $86,000. In combination with architecture ...

IKEA has decided that it needs to market to a new type of customer: refugees from war-torn nations such as Iraq, Libya and Somalia. The Swedish furniture giant, through its charitable arm the IKEA ...

A refugee shelter designed by the Swedish furniture giant Ikea, Better Shelter, and the United Nations is the 2017 winner of the Beazley Design of the Year award. ”We are incredibly proud to be ...

Although more than 600,000 refugees have flooded into Europe this year, more than 58 million displaced people remain, mostly in the developing world. Millions are stuck in refugee camps, housed in row ...

If you thought assembling a bed from Ikea was a headache-inducing experience, imagine being tasked to build a whole (if tiny) house for pennies on the dollar. That was the assignment tasked to two ...

That’s important considering the prolonged refugee crisis that has unfolded across the Middle East. The ongoing war in Syria has spurred nearly 4 million people to leave their homes, according to UN ...

The construction is groundbreaking compared to the traditional construction method used in regeneration projects of this type. Each apartment in Mansion House uses panels for walls, which enables ...

With just a few tools and a bit of patience, would-be home-owners can now build their own abode from a flat-pack, on the cheap and off the grid. A Sydney architect has designed the flat-pack home, ...

The UK is to get its first “flat-pack” homes, after Worthing Council agreed a deal with an Ikea-owned Swedish company, which could provide the template for a cheap and easy way to help solve Britain’s ...

Dorm-alternative tiny house: As we've all been noticing, college costs a fortune these days. Tuition alone is high, and then there's the cost of dorm living isn't cheap -- plus there's the noise, lack ...

The UN Refugee Agency has put in 10,000 orders to provide refugees with shelter that is more dignified than a tent. When refugees arrive in Greece and wait for papers–sometimes for days–some sleep in ...