Q. I’d like your honest opinion, Tim. A-frame houses have always appealed to me, and I think I want to build one. I’ve done scads of research on these unusual homes, and I’m convinced it’s the right ...

When a father and son hired architect Joseph Koelbel to restore the exterior of their 1870s Greenpoint row house, the wood-frame house had been stripped of most of its original detail over time. The ...

It wasn’t so long ago that the humble A-frame house — so named because of its silhouette’s similarity to the triangular letter — was a bygone architectural relic. These small chalets, which flourished ...

It’s been called the pizza slice house, the triangle house and the A house. You can call it yours if you can move it from its current location on the corner of Bennett Avenue and Park Boulevard in ...

We thought you might like to see some photos we took at the Wallabout tour a couple weeks ago, a joint effort of The Wooden House Project and the Brooklyn Historical Society. The area has one of the ...

The A-frame is one of the most popular vacation house styles in the country. They get their popularity because they are simple yet attractive, and they’re inexpensive to build. That should make them a ...

WAUKESHA -- He’s synonymous with Waukesha. There’s even a park named after him, but there’s a lot you don’t know about Andrew Frame. His historic home is undergoing a major renovation. It’s a story ...

Canadian studio The Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative have completed a timber-clad house designed to frame views from a hill in Invermere, Canada. Called Frame House, the building is glazed on ...

In Colonial times, they did it the old-fashioned way. They built houses with massive skeletons of wooden beams–and no nails. This type of construction–called timber framing–was an import from the Old ...

A team of engineers in Buffalo, N.Y., recently built a house on a shake table — a device that can simulate an earthquake. They wanted to see how a typical wood-frame house would fare in a quake. The ...

OFIS’ Frame House, a newly completed family home in the Ljubljana suburb of Trnovo, is a shingle-clad venture into the deconstruction of the archetypal family house. The architects were tasked with ...