After massive fires in Waltham, Mass. and Boston destroyed large residential lightweight wood-frame building complexes this summer, officials from both municipalities are questioning the safety of ...

It’s been called the pizza slice house, the triangle house and the A house. You can call it yours if you can move it from its location on the corner of Bennett Avenue and Park Boulevard in Wildwood.

As wood-frame apartment construction has risen across the country, so too has the frequency of high-profile apartment fires. Last month's fire at Wood Partners' Fuse 47 project in College Park, which ...

Typically, architecture develops gradually, with each generation building on the previous one. Everybody is forced to ...

The wood-frame structure, built circa 1893 and within the Greenpoint Historic District, will be covered with new gray fiber cement clapboard siding. A new cornice and portico similar to the missing ...

POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular Mechanics. Master skills, get tool recommendations, and, most importantly, build something of your very own ...

Learn how to build an a frame house (complete with a cozy sleeping loft) in this illustrated, step-by-step guide. One of the sturdiest of all structures is the A-frame, whose skeleton consists simply ...

It sounds mystical, but it's true. Nels Houghton's dream was the catalyst that brought Daniel Schwartz, an Amish craftsman who specializes in timber-frame buildings, from El Dorado Springs, Mo., to ...

More than 1,600 homes and businesses in Los Angeles and Ventura counties were destroyed and at least three people were killed in the Woolsey fire in 2018. The Camp Fire in Northern California’s Butte ...

Fires in balloon-frame construction present the engine company officer with various challenges. In addition to securing a water supply, stretching a line and extinguishing the main body of the fire, ...