The typical range for concrete patio costs is $1,760 to $4,812, with a national average of $3,274. Patio size, shape, design, labor, permits, geographic location, site preparation, accessibility, and ...

Watching the side of a mountain get blown to bits in the new documentary Architecton, the shock is not just from the explosion but also from the quotidian end result of such brutal force. The film by ...

A group of architects wants to bring their practice back to the stone age. Groupwork and structural engineering firm Webb Yates collaboratively designed a 30-story office tower built of stone they say ...

My grandfather was a baker in Cincinnati in the very early 1900s. He and my grandmother owned and operated a neighborhood bakery in the Clifton Heights neighborhood just 400 feet from where I was born ...

We’ve put together a near-exhaustive timeline of Gowanus’ famous Coignet Stone Building — the earliest known concrete building in New York City. Why is it such a big deal? This building is a ...

POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular Mechanics. Master skills, get tool recommendations, and, most importantly, build something of your very own ...

A modern Stone-Age family used rock to live in, eat from, sleep on, write on . . . and, well, for almost anything that a dinosaur couldn’t be used for. So why not use it to build a canoe, too, and ...

WELLS, MINNESOTA (WCCO)-- At times, we all get the urge to build something. A 78-year-old priest in southern Minnesota took his love of building to a whole new level. Father Eugene Stenzel has spent ...

In 1999, Tennessee concrete company Smyrna Ready Mix started off with just three trucks. Since then, it has grown to 5,400 employees in 16 states. Last year, the company moved from its small office in ...