about entering the Corrales Post Of...

about entering the Corrales Post Office in Corrales, NM a suburb of Albuquerque, real few customers realize what insulates the 8000-sq-ft $600000 building: nearly 1500 bales of harvested straw.

Anything special about the straw? "No," says Del Dixon, principal architect with Design Collaborative Southwest Architects of Albuquerque. "It's the same agricultural straw that you'd find in any barn across the country"

universal among residential developments in the Southwest today, straw-bale construction involves stacking straw bales in a staggered