Real Estate & Architecture

A new generation of high-rises is bringing floor-to-ceiling glass and coastal price tags to a city that never had either. Not everyone is thrilled.

Clean lines, vast glass, and reclaimed timber: the architectural language of Idaho's new wealth has a distinct and increasingly recognizable accent.

Gleaming new towers lease briskly while dated buildings sit empty. The bifurcation is remaking the economics of downtown real estate.

Behind the glass and timber, a small circle of designers is quietly setting the taste of the state's wealthiest homes.

Preservationists and developers are locked in a slow-motion battle over the brick buildings that give downtown its character — and its development potential.

Engineered wood is letting architects build tall without steel or concrete. For a timber state, the implications reach far beyond the buildings.

Waterfront lots that sold for modest sums a generation ago now trade for eight figures. The panhandle's real-estate frenzy shows no sign of cooling.

Hotter summers, worse wildfire smoke, and colder snaps are forcing a rethink of how buildings in the Gem State are made.

For decades, growth meant subdivisions marching across farmland. A new wave of denser development is testing whether the suburbs can change.

Accessory dwelling units have become an unlikely front in Idaho's housing fight — and one of the few things everyone can almost agree on.

Instead of demolition, developers are converting industrial relics into offices, housing, and markets — preserving character while adding capacity.

At the very top of the market, Idaho's rustic ideal has been transformed into something almost unrecognizably grand.

A new category of luxury property organizes the entire home around health — and reveals how the wealthy now think about living.

As the state grapples with a housing crunch, the fight over what can be built where has become the central drama of local politics.

The city mandated retail on the bottom of its new buildings. Filling it has proven far harder than building it.

Factory-built housing promises speed and lower cost. A handful of Idaho companies are betting the state is finally ready for it.

Master-planned luxury communities are multiplying across the state, wagering that the affluent influx will never stop.

As the boom spreads beyond the cities, historic downtowns in rural Idaho are being discovered, revived, and, some fear, remade.