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In a region where wood-frame construction has long defined residential development, Dmitry Pingasov is quietly introducing a different structural language to northeast Pennsylvania. His material of ...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Ken. - The mammoth Ark Encounter project is being recognized as the world’s largest freestanding timber frame structure, with a total of 3.1 million board feet of pine timber used in its ...

Four years ago, the Pritzker Prize–winner Tadao Ando spectacularly converted a 1920s apartment building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago into exhibition spaces for a gallery named—in ...

This video documents two builders framing a complete 48x80 post-frame structure in four days. Covering each step from ground-up construction, the build showcases techniques for a future Farm Chains ...

After massive fires in Waltham, Mass. and Boston destroyed large residential lightweight wood-frame building complexes this summer, officials from both municipalities are questioning the safety of ...

The wood-frame structure, built circa 1893 and within the Greenpoint Historic District, will be covered with new gray fiber cement clapboard siding. A new cornice and portico similar to the missing ...

More than 1,600 homes and businesses in Los Angeles and Ventura counties were destroyed and at least three people were killed in the Woolsey fire in 2018. The Camp Fire in Northern California’s Butte ...