TAKES A VILLAGE: Barron Brown directs a crew at a barn raising near Marshall. Photo by Storms Reback It’s not every day you get invited to a barn raising, so when I did, I jumped at the opportunity.

Three years after constructing a 30,000-square-foot building from mass timber, College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor has opened its second such structure, a 12,000-square-foot residence hall. The ...

Before the advent of colonial rule, constructing houses using brick and mortar was largely unknown. Africans were at home with wattle and daub, straw and reed and all manner of locally available ...

Q What’s your opinion on timber frame construction for a home compared with traditional stick-built designs? A “Stick-built” refers to the studs, joists and trusses that are used to build typical ...

Have a spare $6.4 million? Tacoma's historic Haddaway Hall and surrounding property is still on the market - for a good million-and-a-half dollars fewer than originally reported in October 2010. The ...

Designed by Studio Gang, the 55,000-sq-ft David Rubenstein Treehouse conference center is the first building in Massachusetts to use healthier, low-embodied concrete on a large scale. January 21, 2026 ...

Commissioned to design a new high-rise in South Brisbane, Australia's Koichi Takada Architects has sought to embrace the country's indigenous culture with an extraordinary timber facade. The building ...

Timber Age Systems has been granted a $3.8 million loan from the state of Colorado to build a factory for “panelized” homes in Mancos. The company manufactures exterior home panels using wood from ...