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"Anybody can nail sticks together," Jonathan Taylor said. He doesn't have anything against nails, he just doesn't use them much. Taylor, 48, of Phillips, Maine, is building a log shed, mostly without ...

Roundwood timber framing means working with materials sourced straight from the forest, using nature’s shapes to create the structure, employing techniques that can easily be learnt and passed on, and ...

London architecture firm A-Zero has completed an oak frame house that incorporates the steel frame of an old cow shed in a rural area near Leighton Buzzard, England (+ slideshow). A-Zero was asked to ...

The architects decided to keep the six-foot-high brick perimeter walls of the building and combine the existing steel frame with the new timber frame, creating a sheltered courtyard on one side. In ...

The Irish Timber Frame Manufacturer’s Association nicely round it up — in timber frame “the inner load bearing/support wall is replaced by an engineered rigid timber frame structure”. This is not ...

A bio-based housing proposal in Hoofddorp, The Erven features timber construction, circular design and four community-focused courtyards led by White Arkitekter ...

In 1989, my father-in-law taught me to smoke meats and cheeses. I was a timber frame builder—I have my own company, called OakBridge Timber Framing—and I wanted a home project to help me unwind in the ...