Historical building methodsEarly Swiss mountain huts used locally available materials by necessity. Stone from nearby quarries provided walls with thermal mass to moderate temperature swings. Timber ...

Greenhouses are elegant and ingenious structures that incorporate simplicity in design while creating light-filled spaces that shape indoor climates. With walls and roofs composed mainly of ...

Every building has a personality and the rooftop is one of its main features. This means that the roof can be very important ...

Roof tiles made of fired clay are key elements of traditional Korean architecture. They not only protected wooden structures from the weather; they also carried aesthetic value and symbolic meaning.

Architect Shigeru Ban builds churches, houses and pavilions out of paper and bamboo. These are traditional materials of Japanese architecture, but they are anomalous in the modern world of concrete, ...

Designed by a sustainability-forward architecture firm, this 1,550-square-foot house employs traditional building techniques ...

One can walk planks in the attic of the old armory building at 406 E. 2nd St., in Carson City. The wooden footpaths weave through huge, dark timbers of the roof structure. It’s an environment that ...

Alongside plans for the world's tallest timber tower, another ambitious timber project has come to the USA. ZGF Architects has revealed an impressive extension at Portland International Airport (PDX) ...