Week after week I read [Bill Benner’s] column. [On June 14] it really hit home. John Wooden has been my idol and will continue to be someone I strive to be for as long as I am breathing. I know that I ...

Sweden's Stockholm Wood City is being built largely from timber. The construction industry produces 37% of the world's carbon emissions. Building using wood is one way to reduce the sector's climate ...

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Many older homes are graced by columns supporting a porch roof. As they suffer the effects of age and weather, these columns may need repair or replacement. Sometimes, you'll only need to replace the ...

Architect Tim Olson, from Bensonwood homes in Walpole, has a problem. He and a friend have screwed together the first few pieces of a design project, called the Coopered Column, backwards. “We’re ...

For 92 years, six wooden columns distinguished the entrance to the University of Vermont’s Ira Allen Chapel, a historic building so iconic that Walmart sells its image in framed art prints online.

Thomas Lupo’s office—on the second floor of a former stable on Grand Street in Brooklyn—was once used in a commercial for Post Raisin Bran. “They said it was because it’s one of the few that still ...

Drawing all eyes in a business district in downtown Yokohama, the Port Plus building is fashioned solely from tidy wooden columns and beams instead of the standard steel and concrete. The 44-meter, 11 ...

A huge, new city is being built in Sweden, but it's not being constructed using steel or concrete — its main building material is wood. Part of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, is set to become the ...