This is a fairly simple build if you have the shop tools, and if you only have hand tools available, is still quite doable. The blocks consist of square wooden blocks with holes drilled into them ...

Drawing all eyes in a business district in downtown Yokohama, the Port Plus building is fashioned solely from tidy wooden columns and beams instead of the standard steel and concrete. The 44 ...

wood and steel column, would protect against Tokyo's regular earthquakes, it said. The projected cost of the building is about 600bn yen (£4.02bn; $5.6bn), about twice the cost of a conventional ...

Established in 2013, the RIBA House of the Year award recognizes the finest new house or house extension designed by an ...