One of the basic choices home buyers in Central Florida face is whether to choose a house built with concrete blocks or with a wooden frame. Block-built houses used to be the rage in Florida.

Even though brick is easing into the Central Florida housing scene, consumers basically have two choices when it comes to home construction material: frame or block. But ask any expert in the ...

Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction. But wood construction isn’t engineered for long-term durability, and it often underperforms, ...

Lance Anderson is the owner of Lance Anderson Construction Inc. (Yankton, South Dakota) and maintains a passion for precision with every foundation and wall he constructs. On average, he and his crew ...

From the sidewalk on Willow Green Place, Bill Fredrickson and Michael Russo’s new house looks like a concrete replica of the wooden frame houses on the block destroyed by the Tubbs fire two years ago.

An exposed concrete-framed extension frames views across a garden and sunken studio at this Victorian townhouse in Hampstead, ...

Bare concrete mightn't be the fanciest of finishings for a home, but with industrial conversions a growing trend around the world it has come to carry a certain simplistic charm. Chilean architecture ...

When Stockholm-based firm, OOAK Architects were tasked with building a beautiful home for two windsurfing aficionados on the Greek island of Karpathos, they created a design completely driven by the ...