When we enter into a building, whether a home or business, we are entering into a unique environment. These environments are created from a variety of separate materials that can either make us feel ...

Michael Green Architecture (MGA) is a leader in the design of mass timber structures. The firm, jointly based in Portland, Oregon, and British Columbia, Canada, has been a pioneer in mass timber ...

Concrete and steel have ruled skyscraper construction for the better part of a century. But in recent years wood has been reengineered to be as light and strong as its industrial-age counterparts, ...

Kennedy & Violich described the building material in the Soft House as " a traditional solid wood panel and deck construction with wood dowel joints." That didn't mean much to me, but Mike Eliason of ...

This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab. In this age of modern building materials, ...

The Green-Wood Cemetery’s new visitor center is looking close to finished on the exterior and the construction fence has come down. The gleaming Weir Greenhouse is now fully visible along with the ...

The Green-Wood Cemetery’s new visitor center is looking close to finished on the exterior and the construction fence has come down. The gleaming Weir Greenhouse is now fully visible along with the ...

Editor’s Note: This post originally ran in 2013 and has been updated. You can read the previous post here. I love this chapel. It is a beautiful building, inside and out. Coming up upon the Green-Wood ...

The inspiration for this column came to me one Sunday morning as I was greeting people at our church, where my wife and I are ushers. In between people dashing through the door to avoid the drops of ...

As engineered wood evolves as a construction material, the sky is becoming the limit for timber office and institutional buildings. One of three timber construction buildings recently completed for ...