When I built my own house, I wanted the timber look inside, but because I was doing all the work myself, and I didn’t have the money to rent a crane to raise a traditional timber frame ...

The A-Frame house, a distinct residential typology often found in North America that blends modernist architecture and local vernacular traditions, was created by Minneapolis studio Strand Design. It ...

The house was timber framed, with brick walls, lime mortar and cast stone. Detailing is minimal, with large timber-framed windows (using Accoya wood) precisely placed to bring the newly landscaped ...

The Finnish prefab builder uses locally sourced spruce and pine, touting them for their performance in a range of climates.

But adherence to this stultifying building configuration need not be the norm. Frame 122, a five-story mass-timber residential apartment house in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood, designed by ...