Kyoto has many shrines, temples and traditional structures, spurring people to place special value on old building materials over the centuries. After the Middle Ages, merchants at the center of ...

Think of jobs along the textile supply chains. Some think nostalgia drives the market for old building materials. I think it's reality more than nostalgia. The quality of such materials is easy to ...

He expects these trends to continue. Its material qualities, long central to the appeal of classic buildings by architects Louis Sullivan and Cass Gilbert, have also been reappraised and ...