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London architecture firm A-Zero has completed an oak frame house that incorporates the steel frame of an old cow shed in a rural area near Leighton Buzzard, England (+ slideshow). A-Zero was asked to ...
"Anybody can nail sticks together," Jonathan Taylor said. He doesn't have anything against nails, he just doesn't use them much. Taylor, 48, of Phillips, Maine, is building a log shed, mostly without ...
The architects decided to keep the six-foot-high brick perimeter walls of the building and combine the existing steel frame with the new timber frame, creating a sheltered courtyard on one side. In ...
Southwark-based A-Zero Architects has built this five-bedroom house in the shell of a cow shed near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire The house occupies two thirds of the barn’s existing slab, which was ...
A RUSTIC shed, steely office or chic cedar-clad studio, garden buildings offer a wealth of sylvan and sophisticated possibilities. If you’re not ready to extend but want somewhere to relax, work or ...
In 1989, my father-in-law taught me to smoke meats and cheeses. I was a timber frame builder—I have my own company, called OakBridge Timber Framing—and I wanted a home project to help me unwind in the ...