construction

From India to the Amazon to Israel, bulldozers have left a path of destruction that offers a cautionary tale for how technology can be misused.

How gang-nail plates led to bigger homes.

On the construction of America's new capital city.

How a California homebuilder remade the Interior West.

How stadiums in Qatar connect to a bridge in Kentucky and a dam in West Virginia.

A film produced by Western Electric, a haunting glimpse into the construction of the Twin Towers in New York and their early use.

After decades of unchecked hazardous waste pollution, a Florida hamlet fights the developers eager to build homes there anyway.

Democrats’ cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.

A swamp with a busy road going right through the middle, Washington’s airport was called “a disgrace.”

Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion contributed to a backlash that led to immigration clampdown.

Blue America lacks a Gov. Ron DeSantis: someone remaking a state or major city in the image of a well-articulated ideology.

The cottages’ modest design provided entry-level homes after the Great Chicago Fire.

Fazlur Khan and the idea that would turn architecture on its head.

An epic account of a vital economic artery and our many efforts to control it.

America is suffering from a severe housing shortage. A crucial tool may lie in the Constitution.

On the town’s history & architecture.

Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor.

It’s part of a project to rebuild Washington-on-the-Brazos, “the birthplace of Texas,” where the declaration that created the Republic of Texas was signed.

The people of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, helped keep the Greenbrier resort's bunker—designed to hold the entirety of Congress—hidden for 30 years.

Rare photos from the early 1900s show the 120-year-old system’s pick-and-shovel beginnings.

The Chesapeake 1000, which can lift 1,000 tons, arrived in Baltimore on Friday. Decades ago, it helped build a ship for a CIA mission to recover Soviet secrets.

When you dig beyond all purpose, digging becomes the purpose.

How a mid-century architecture competition reimagined the American home.

For thousands of years, Indigenous societies were building hundred-foot pyramids along the Mississippi River.

A legion of idealists dropped out of society and went back to the land. Here's a glimpse of their otherworldly residences—and the end of the social experiment.

We do not often think of Paine as a revolutionary inventor. But in a very real sense, that is what he believed himself to be.

The comment lament misses crucial context about the style trends and building materials of the past.

Even Magic Kingdoms need urban planners.

Thanks to decades of misguided policy choices, the U.S. has an astonishing lack of maritime capacity.

During World War I, the government constructed entire communities for workers and their families, setting new standards for housing and neighborhood planning.