The panoramic perspective afforded by the curving windows of a luxury residence at The Greenwich in New York City. Given the typical grid street patterns and square or rectangular buildings in the ...

Many of mankind's earliest structures were not square or rectangular as we build today, but were round or oval shaped. In terms of usable floor space, cost of materials, strength, and energy ...

The Finnish biomaterials giant says shifting to wood as a building material can cut up to 70% of emissions per project and ensure that the construction industry is part of the solution to end global ...

In the report on ancient building shape, there was no mention of the critical relationship between the roofs and walls. The roof of a rectangular structure provides strength to ensure the walls stay ...

The building industry has a waste problem. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a British nonprofit focused on accelerating the transition to a circular economy, upward of 50 percent of ...

Often, when people think of buildings, they default to imagining rectangular structures—or at the very least, structures with orthogonal floor plans and hard angles, certainly not buildings with ...