If you’ve ever seen a picture of Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument near Salisbury, England, you’ll recognize the structural system know...

A contractor once told me an interesting story about a house he’d built for a man in Connecticut. Winter was already setting in when he’d ...

Here's a textbook example of how NOT to reach your home’s front entrance. A while back, I came across this otherwise rather charming hou...

In the days of laborious hand crafting, before the coming of the Industrial Revolution, ornament such as carving or engraving was a hallmark...

There’s one good thing about a nation developing late and developing fast: it can pretty much pick and choose from among all the best ways...

When it comes to environmentalism, the Chinese are bad, bad people, right? Not exactly. Thanks to their government’s knack for disseminating...

Americans are no doubt getting tired of hearing how well things are going for China. Having painted just such a rosy picture in my last re...