Upstate trucker Joe Macken’s TikTok-famous scale model of New York City will be displayed at the Museum of the City of New York this winter, Gothamist can exclusively report. “He Built This City: Joe ...

Christopher Petersen often describes what he does as “building memories.” Petersen, 63, lives in Colorado but grew up in Park Ridge, in a white house on Washington Street. That house has seen some ...

If you’re reading this and you were born after about 1945, it’s a near-certainty that you spent much of your youth building plastic scale model kits, probably including the timeless Visible V-8 or ...

If you’re setting out to build a cabin or building a shed, take the time to create a scale model first. It’s the single biggest advantage you can give yourself when it comes to saving money and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Mylyn Nguyen is an artist who creates scale models of buildings from around her hometown. These replicas are made out of paper and boxboard. More from Real Estate Mylyn ...

Existing frameworks like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Portfolio Manager provide useful performance ...

Public sculpture has shaped the American landscape. Since the country’s beginnings, monuments and memorials have conveyed history, morality, and civic pride. Its role as a primarily commemorative ...

A pair of scale model structures subjected to simulated storm conditions in an lab responded like real wood-frame homes during recent hurricanes, suggesting model buildings can yield important design ...

Scientists have developed a new way to represent the world's cities in global climate and Earth system models (GCM & ESMs), ...

At the age of 12, a kid usually begins to learn the art of sarcasm. But for some kids (like me), the concept is initially difficult to grasp. So, it was no surprise that I did a double take when my ...

Miniaturists are memorializing the architecture of quickly changing cities with meticulous renderings of corner stores, restaurants and even dumpsters. From left: a Brooklyn dumpster (five inches tall ...