Q:We want to build our dream house. We want a strong one to resist tornadoes, storms . . . other disasters. We thought of the post and beam houses in Europe which are centuries old. Can we build a new ...

Built in 2000, Stones Throw, a glass-walled post-and-beam home in the Thousand Islands region, features a first-floor primary suite, a wood stove, an open kitchen, and a spiral staircase to a loft and ...

It can be zero degrees outside on a sunny winter day and by afternoon the temperature inside can be 80 degrees, thanks to western and southern exposures with large windows. Both the design and the ...

A post-and-beam lake house by modernist architect John L. Pugsley is on the market in the South Arroyo area of Pasadena for $3.895 million. This 3,248-square-foot two-story house features four ...

A Pasadena, California, home that’s considered a “masterful example” of post-and-beam modernism is on the market for $2.75 million. It was designed in 1954 by noted architecture firm Buff, Straub and ...