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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The igloo festival aims to break the igloo building world record. For an entry in the Guinness Book of Records, 400 people have to spend the night in 200 self-built igloos. The igloo construction will ...

Travis Wysong and Taylor Childers made use Sunday of the snow that has fallen over the past week. The two took advantage of an afternoon lull between storms to build an igloo across the street from ...

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 ...