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-meter, 11 ...

Architect Tim Olson, from Bensonwood homes in Walpole, has a problem. He and a friend have screwed together the first few pieces of a design project, called the Coopered Column, backwards. “We’re ...

I have four 8 ft square wood columns that are covered with EIFS (stucco-like product). The columns are 2 per side of the house entrance with a small roof/cornice on top. I want to make the columns ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pillars of the architectural community for thousands of years, columns still play vitally important supporting roles in home design. Whether load-bearing and ...

Indeed, columns and beams are not the real problem, neither structurally nor from a fire perspective. The real issue is the connection details: wooden components are connected with steel bolts, screws ...