In the summer of 1423, just before a wooden tension ring was to be laid around the dome, Brunelleschi suddenly took to his bed, complaining of severe pains in his side. When the baffled carpenters ...

Whether you install this onion-domed glamping cabin in your backyard ... and on the main floor is a sweeping living space—with a modern wooden staircase connecting both. The cabin is equipped ...

("After a young woman falls to her death in Yosemite, Half Dome's risks are on everyone's mind," Aug. 8) Pounding more wooden ...