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 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 ...

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 ...