Restoration of Steel Window Frames and Hardware
Dryden Architecture and Design works with Seekircher Steel Window to bring post-WWI window frames and hardware back to their original form and function.
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Traditional Building's in-depth reports from top experts in the building and architectural industry. Subjects include metalwork, stonework, art restoration, specialty glass and stained glass restoration, hardware, roofing, flooring, and more.
Marble Care & Repair
Marble has been used for millennia to construct our buildings.
Carbon, Energy, and Building Conservation
Strategies that move us toward compliance with new energy codes.
Mastering Masonry
Continuing the education, awareness, and appreciation of masonry.
Relamping Lady Liberty
The original torch shines again after a meticulous conservation.
Historically Accurate Hardware
A look at companies making high-end knobs, hinges, latches and levers for period buildings.
Preservation Timber Framing Restores First Parish Meetinghouse
Thoughtful restoration brings craft, communication, and celebration to the First Parish Meetinghouse in Derry, New Hampshire.
Regional Motifs in Classical Architecture
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’s Indianapolis Indiana Temple is a blend of classical architecture and regional motifs.
Decorative Metals: The Truth Behind the Terms
Doug Bracken from Wiemann Metalcraft outlines the often used but incomplete and misleading terms used in the ornamental and decorative metals trade.
Chesneys Reproduction Mantels
Chesneys carves replicas of 18th-century fireplace mantels with exactitude born over three decades.
Stephen Payne Discusses the Built Environment
Stephen Payne, of Payne/Bouchier Fine Builders, has carefully crafted houses for decades. Here is his take on the built environment.
Winston-Salem Union Station: Pilkington Spacia™ Restoration Project
We learn the history about the iconic Winston-Salem Union Station and how Pilkington Spacia™ played a large roll in the restoration project.
The Phillips Collection Project: A Contractor’s Perspective
Trades, technology, and teamwork on the Phillips Collection project.
Safer Windows for The 1874 Renwick Gallery
Blast resistance adds another twist to building reproduction windows at the Renwick Gallery.
Covax Design: Artistry in Iron
Covax Design creates traditional wrought iron gates for two new colleges.
Building with Concrete
With uses that range from utilitarian to decorative, concrete has been the building material of choice for centuries.
Using Architectural Salvage in Traditional Building
Architectural salvage continues to provide patina in new projects.
Heritage Metalworks Lights Ford’s Fair Lane Estate
Heritage Metalworks creates chandeliers and sconces to bring Ford’s Fair Lane Estate back to its 1919 grandeur.
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Mid-Atlantic Steel Fabrication
Provides metal fabrication services using state-of-the-art equipment for laser cutting, metal fabrication, aluminum fabrication, CNC forming services, welding, countersinking, 3D CAD Design, powder coating & decorative metal fabrication.