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One of the truly elegant things about the National Gallery is the way I. M. Pei uses movement through the building. The structure makes r...

Walking to the National Mall in Washington today, I remembered how hard it is to pass by the East Wing of the National Gallery without st...

We've designed the house to avoid using softwood lumber as much as possible. This is the kind of wood that's typically used for ...

Our mechanical contractor began installing ductwork this week. The segment in the living and dining rooms (pictured here) is the most prom...

Our steel erector began putting the insulated roof panels up this week. Together with the insulated wall panels and the metal trim, this ...

At some point in the last 24 hours, we got some new graffiti at tin box . Somebody made a spray paint stencil and tried it out on our cons...

Last night, my friend  Aziza Chaouni spoke at FIU about the work her firm, Bureau E.A.S.T. , has done in Morocco. She also gave our stud...

Cartography might once have been understood as the documentation of an unchanging earth, whose coasts and continents needed only to be dis...

We met on site with Kaelsie Saravia , our cabinet maker, yesterday. We came out to finalize the layout of the cabinets in the kitchen and...

Well, if you're going to crank your amps to 11 , you're going to need some electricity. Our electrician, Celestino, has started ro...

An exciting moment at the site today. The subcontractor responsible for putting up the roof and wall panels took down the construction fen...

One of the reasons we chose South Miami - and this particular corner of South Miami - to build our home was the sense of community in the...

In the week since we wrote about laying out the interior partitions, Pedro and his crew have completed most of the framing. The light gau...

I spent last week at the 5th African Perspectives Conference in Casablanca . The conference organizers included ArchiAfrika , whose 2007 c...

Our superintendent, Pedro, sent these photos of the work he and his crew did this morning, laying out the partitions (interior walls) thro...

Could Richard Nixon get the Republican presidential nomination these days? Whatever else Nixon was responsible for, he also signed into la...

The Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is holding its Edible Garden Festival this weekend. The event includes demonstrations of gardening,...

An important new report this week gives new urgency to our efforts to slow the pace of climate change. Richard Muller, a physics professor...

bike lane, SW 72nd Street Three reasons automobile drivers should love dedicated bicycle lanes:

Props to our local governments – the City of South Miami and Miami-Dade County – for continuing to build bike lanes and better sidewalks i...

Macintosh 128K Home Computer, designed by Steve Jobs and  Jerry Manock, 1984. Museum of Modern Art, via ARTstor. It is touching to see...

It's my house, and I'll bike if I want to.

Venturi Scott Brown and Associates Franklin Court, Philadelphia The most important part of writing is editing. It is also the most pain...

Steel construction makes for some pretty cool photos. Here, one of the erection crew is trimming some of the roof decking. Of the scores...

The erectors completed the roof decking this morning. We're now ready for the insulated roof panels to go up (then wall panels, then ...

photo by Adam Feinstein Kudos to FIU for investing in golf carts with solar panels on the roof. Self-powering vehicles are an ingenious...

At some point last night, tin box recorded its 10,000th page view. A lot of our traffic comes through postings on Facebook, where we ente...

Looking forward at the week ahead, we're anticipating a lot of work at tin box . Our erector should be able to finish installing the roo...

Our erector started installing the roof decking yesterday. These gorgeous corrugated sheets are High Shear B Deck (HSB-36), a structural r...

From the Kingspan factory in Deland, FL, comes this progress photo of our roof panels. Our roof uses KingZip insulated metal panels with...