Four years ago, the Pritzker Prize–winner Tadao Ando spectacularly converted a 1920s apartment building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago into exhibition spaces for a gallery named—in ...

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 ...

A single-family wooden house in a rapidly gentrifying stretch of Bedford Stuyvesant has survived for nearly 150 years, thanks to the loving care of one family. Photo: Allyson Lubow Situated between ...