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• Restoring a Milk Bottle-Shaped Restaurant

  A Spokane builder repairs a fire-damaged historic structure.

• Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center

  Brooklyn, N.Y. / Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism

• Esto Gallery: Hirshhorn Museum

  A look at the Hirshhorn through the lens of Ezra Stoller

• Contemporary Bathroom Addition

  A stepped footprint makes the most of space left by a property easement.

• Remodeling in Masonry

  Two projects illustrate how a methodical approach and careful details keep old walls from crumbling.

• How to Build Cambered Columns from PVC Boards

  A straight taper at the bottom transitions to a curve at the top, making for some careful millwork.

• Simple Math for a Slow Economy

  Earlier this year, timber-framer Paul Freeman, owner of Brooks Post & Beam in Lyndeborough, N.H., realized he had a problem.

• University of Maryland

  The WaterShed house took top honors in the overall competition.

• Gift From the Sea

  A remodeler encountering a layer of Cabot's Quilt inside an old building might mistake it for the tattered remnants of a Hawaiian grass skirt -- hastily stuffed into a wall, perhaps, during a police raid of some Prohibition-era costume party.

• Extreme Rammed Earth

  Rammed-earth walls used to be elementary.