Cold, Cold, Cold

Sometimes an area likes to be a list topper... Sometimes not.

Forbes Magazine ranked Boston as the most expensive place to heat a home in a 2007 study... Which said the average household spent more than $1,600 a year on heat.

Israeli-born and Boston-based architect Simon Hare of the design company Placetailor recently built an urban home that’s made to get through a New England winter without central heat.

Here & Now stopped by on one of the very coldest days of the year.

Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 2/16/10, Host: Robin Young. Photostream/Reporter: Jill Ryan