Across the globe, few nations have faced as many natural disasters as Japan — from typhoons and tsunamis to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Yet, out of this constant exposure to risk has emerged ...

Trying to analyze the Big Beautiful Bill made me think of Wilbur Stone. The name Wilbur Stone probably doesn’t mean much, even to students of Colorado History. But Stone had a major role in drafting ...

Indiana’s Constitution mandates that every bill stick to one subject. And yet, each session we see “shell bills” hijacked after deadlines, gutted and refilled with unrelated material behind closed ...

How to shine the healing light of transparency on this morass, a masterpiece of back-room dealings refined over the years by a tiny cadre of Statehouse bosses? There is one way. Ohioans are left with ...

The Historic District Commission will review plans for two new single-family homes at 445 Marcy Street and 20 Pray Street in Portsmouth. The historic candy cottage at 445 Marcy Street will be ...

A design competition hosted by the American Institute of Architects’ Baltimore chapter challenged architects and design enthusiasts to create visions for single-stair residential buildings, a typology ...

This article first appeared in the May/June 2025 issue of Pro Builder. Lot costs are just one contributing factor to high home prices, especially for parcels located close to employment, shopping, and ...

The design direction of new BMWs has been a hot topic for years, some might argue for more than two decades, with many pointing to Chris Bangle’s infamous E65 7-Series as the turning point at the ...

The 2025 National Single Stair Architectural Design Competition invites designers to rethink multifamily housing through the innovative use of single-stair configurations. Entrants are challenged to ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a graph worth? For doctors trying to determine whether a patient's blood pressure is within normal range, the answer may depend on the type of graph ...