For third generation carpenter Russ Brotnov and his tight-knit Carpentry Plus Inc. team, it’s long been a family affair. His father Lyle founded Carpentry Plus in 1991. Russ joined two years later and ...

Milwaukee's first building created with an unusual construction method, using high-grade timber instead of steel for its frame, will be completed next spring. Timber Lofts, a 60-unit apartment ...

Editor's note: The 10th annual Cotton Mill Open Studio and Holiday Sale will be held Friday, Dec. 5, to Sunday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Many of the artists, artisans and businesses who call the ...

Mass-timber-frame enthusiasts extoll the virtues of the structural material not only because it is renewable but also because building with timber is typically speedier, safer, simpler and quieter ...

PITTSFIELD — In May 1965, John Sobon, piloting a 60-foot crane, ripped into a North Adams apartment building, bringing a century-old timber frame structure to the ground. In a period marked by postwar ...

London studio Reed Watts has completed a visitor centre for the medieval Ightham Mote manor house in Kent, creating an ...

Using full-color photos, detailed drawings, and clear step-by-step instructions, Learn to Timber Frame (Storey Publishing, 2016) is a guidebook for beginners, showing exactly how to build one small ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The record may not last long, but Cleveland will have special bragging rights as long as it does. Come 2021, it appears the city will be home to the tallest timber-frame building in ...

Scars left by axes swung before the Civil War show the work of skilled builders who shaped timbers for use in homes, barns and warehouses long before cutting machinery came along. Each board or beam ...

This isn't your great-great-grandfather's office building — even though it will be constructed with a frame fashioned mainly from wood, instead of concrete and steel. The unusual seven-story building ...

New York City is home to some of the most famous skyscrapers in the world, from the Chrysler Building to the Empire State Building—structures of concrete and steel that, when built, seemed to defy ...