One of the most prominent trends shaping the materials sector today is functional performance — products that do more than ...

There was something of the occult in the way people talked about plywood. Take the Eameses, who called their plywood-molding apparatus the “Kazam!” machine or the “magic box.” Making beautiful, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Plywood is cheap. That, along with its strength, is its strength, but also, ironically, its weakness. The history of ...

You can build almost anything out of wood, and you should. Nobody wanted the Mosquito. The Royal Airforce wanted bigger, heavier planes made out of metal, not wood; the American government asked ...

City Hall unveiled six new sidewalk shed designs on Tuesday, aiming to replace the long-standing green plywood construction ...

Conversations around design often revolve around the materials used to create a certain aesthetic. Mahogany and walnut, for instance, suggest richness and elegance. Marble offers a sense of permanence ...

New York City’s great green maze— the hulking sidewalk sheds that have shaded blocks for decades—just got a glow-up. On ...

A plywood design will provide the function of a traditional wheelbarrow without the risk of rust or rot. Frustrated with store-bought wheelbarrows that rust and rot in Oregon’s wet coastal climate, I ...

This creative woodturning project turns plywood into a Tetris-inspired design that’s as satisfying as it is ingenious. The ...

New designs banish the ugliness that has been standard-issue for decades. But we shouldn’t let these hang around for years ...