Property description: Named in honor of a group, or “rafter,” of wild turkeys known to call Northeast Minneapolis home, Mortenson’s Rafter apartment tower is intended to be a “love letter” to the ...

DEAR TIM: I’m now retired and starting to attack a huge list of projects. One of them is building a simple shed, and I have no clue how to cut and create a simple roof rafter. I know it can’t be that ...

The Amherst Planning Board has approved this six-story, mixed-use building on University Drive at the edge of the University of Massachusetts campus. Credit: Kuhn Riddle Architects & Designers AMHERST ...

Roof framing has undergone a quiet revolution over the past half century. Trusses are gradually replacing the conventional rafters, to the point that nowadays more than 80 percent of new residential ...