A while back, I got a solicitation from a local real estate agent whose client was ostensibly in the market for a loft. The agent describe...

In cities from Chicago to Austin to Berkeley, old-style mechanical parking meters are rapidly being replaced by a new type known as a multi-...

The other day I was rummaging through a local architectural salvage yard when, way out in one corner, past the rows of forlorn toilets and r...

For millennia, the only way to build to build a strong building was to pile up lots and lots of stone or brick, forming massive masonry wall...

In 1978, the British architect Norman Foster was showing a distinguished visitor around the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, an innovative...

For millenia, the only way to create a strong, durable, and fireproof structure was to build it out of stone or brick. Needless to say, th...

The New Urbanist movement aims to recapture the best of historic urban design, and it‘s done much to help extricate our cities from the hy...