How many structures have qualified as the tallest thing ever built? Surprisingly, it’s a pretty small club.  We don’t know much about st...

The other day I came across a plastic house. Not the futuristic World’s Fair variety--this was just an ordinary old house that had been “i...

The word “renovation” implies they you’re replacing something old and worn out with something new and better. Yet too many so-called renov...

A century ago, Henry Ford’s canny use of mass production put the automobile--a former plaything of the wealthy--within reach of the averag...

Someday, when the history of our Petroleum Age is written and the internal-combustion automobile is seen as a quaint and rather silly conv...

We hear the terms “well proportioned” and “ill proportioned” all the time, but we seldom really think about what they mean. What exactly g...

There are two ways to build. One is to strive for absolute visual perfection, and then wage a desperate and invariably losing battle to pr...