Q: Our home, built in 1993, has four wooden columns leading up to a portico. We are in the process of having them painted but found that wood in at least two of the columns is rotted. We do not know ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Piles of wooden columns, once an exquisite feature in traditional houses across Pakistan, lie clustered in a dusty backyard of a handicrafts shop in Islamabad. With diminishing interest for these ...