Watch the rebuilding of a traditional Japanese timber frame using classic wood joinery techniques without nails or metal fasteners. The time lapse shows the precise craftsmanship and structural design ...

Inspired by temples and churches they visited while in Japan in 1996, Hélène Séguin and Vincent Lavoie fell in love with that type of construction and decided to design a timber-frame home that would ...

Slender timber columns frame the living spaces in Forest of Pillars, a block of two family homes in Fukushima, Japan, designed by local studio IGArchitects to reference the forest of thin trees at the ...

The timber structure of this house in Kyoto by Japanese studio Alphaville pokes through into the interior spaces, which were designed to optimise the dimensions of a narrow site. The property is ...