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 ...

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While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...

Using only primitive tools, I built an A-frame hut with grass and mud as a large workspace for future projects! This structure was completed in just 3 days, from January 21 to January 23, 2018. Watch ...

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 ...

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John Heagy stepped out of a stairwell onto the third floor of a building known as T3 West Midtown in Atlantic Station. It was sunny and late morning, but there was a glow radiating off the wooden ...