Strip away the marketing and a high-performance house is a machine: heat pumps, solar arrays, continuous air barriers, triple-glazed everything. Builders are getting remarkably good
A mid-size Czech city just built multi-story rental housing out of timber, on a budget, on schedule, for the first time in the country’s history.
When Jesse and Betsy went looking for more space on their Portland, Maine property, zoning gave them one option: build on the same long, narrow
Every building material makes an argument about where it comes from. Concrete says it came from industry. Steel says it came from somewhere far away
In Freeport, Maine, students and researchers now gather in a building that was designed to do more than shelter them — it was designed to
Last fall, Smith College opened Kathleen McCartney Hall — a 15,000-square-foot mass timber hub on its Frederick Law Olmsted–designed campus in Northampton, Massachusetts. Designed by
