Acting as your own general contractors on the building of your house is not for the faint of heart. It takes time, money and, most of all, vision. It helps to do a little rehearsing. “We spent three ...

Timber-frame construction, in which a traditional-looking block is erected around a wooden skeleton, now accounts for 60% of all new social housing. Once reserved primarily for individual houses, the ...

FINDLAY, Ohio — To help preserve historic buildings, it's important to understand how they were originally built. A new park pavilion is under construction at the Brucklacher Memorial Park in Findlay.

Robert and Melissa Lewin live in Brooklyn in a 110-year-old Park Slope brownstone, which, while beautiful, is “connected to other homes on either side, is chopped up into small rooms and filled with ...

APA – The Engineered Wood Association, the American Wood Council (AWC) and Simpson Strong-Tie partnered with the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) to sponsor the ...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The U.S. built environment could benefit from approaches to mass-timber design and construction that have taken off in parts of Europe, advised a veteran architect from HFA ...

In terms of construction culture, Switzerland can appear a paradoxical place. On the one hand, it has some of the strictest codes anywhere with respect to building performance and energy expenditure, ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. Some high-profile projects by Vermont timber ...

There is a renewed interest in how food is produced and how its creation affects the well-being of both the land and the communities it supports. A similar shift is occurring in architecture, where ...

A key aspect of such a project for Herdeg is the materials, which needed to be “authentic, real, and natural,” he says. Toward that end, behind its darkly tinted glass exterior, the six-story, 116,000 ...