The wood-framed pavilion at the center of Wrightwood 659’s "American Framing" exhibition, back stateside after its run at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, fills nearly every inch of the building ...
This webinar is part of the Wood Structures Academy. As a building material, wood’s unique characteristics make it a stand-out for construction, remaining one of the most used materials in the ...
Omaha Reservation, Nebraska, 1877. . Image © William Henry Jackson; The National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution We want to work with a ...
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 ...
One of Illinois’ little known architectural treasures is the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County’s History Museum on the Square at 332 Maine in downtown Quincy. Housed in a beautifully ...
Architects are in a proof-of-concept race to construct sustainable wood high-rises. Oct. 31 at 6:30 a.m. SKELLEFTEA, Sweden — It is right to say that the construction of one of the tallest timber ...
If there were a Family Feud question where I'd have to name the most iconic design features of the 1970s, several answers would immediately come to mind. Shag carpet. Sunken living rooms. Avocado tile ...
The assumption that wood houses are not made to last is simply that: an assumption—and an incorrect one at that. The oldest wood building in the world is Japan’s Hōryū-ji pagoda, which has a cypress ...
The John Wood Mansion, built in 1835, has twice been saved — once in 1907 when it was earmarked for destruction by the city, then purchased by the Historical Society for $1,700 — and again in November ...