Russia holds roughly a fifth of the world's forest area, and for two decades one species from that vast resource dominated ...

Edinburgh practice A449 has adapted a "nondescript" mid-20th-century dwelling in the Scottish Borders to create a home with scenic views for a writer (+ slideshow). The Edinburgh-based practice, led ...

Along with the architecture of a home, its skin has a massive design impact. Check out these diverse – and sometimes surprising – cladding solutions. Featuring local schist and looking to Lake Wanaka ...

Designer Sebastian Cox has designed a treehouse in the English countryside that features scorched larch cladding, a shingled roof and a balustrade of chestnut branches. Cox's studio created the ...

Product specification guide: advances in treatment and preservation are increasing timber’s sustainability Increasingly timber is being specified as a rainscreen cladding system for external walls. It ...

Siberian larch cladding from Vincent Timber offers the aesthetic appeal of cedar but is 30 per cent cheaper. Its gold honey colour weathers to silvery grey within two years, and it can also be stained ...