Post and beam and timber frame are both beautiful methods of building but most people think of them as one and the same. Although they are similar, there are subtle differences between them. Both are ...

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PITTSFIELD — In May 1965, John Sobon, piloting a 60-foot crane, ripped into a North Adams apartment building, bringing a century-old timber frame structure to the ground. In a period marked by postwar ...

Timber frames, for so long limited to the low-rise residential sector, have begun to break into commercial and higher-rise uses, thanks to technological breakthroughs. What does the future hold? For ...