by ssbhayani | Apr 21, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
Over a century ago, a group of architects gathered at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, to judge a design competition for something deceptively simple: a beautiful American house built entirely from white pine, priced at $12,500. The... by ssbhayani | Apr 9, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
In 1915, the White Pine Bureau did something most industries wouldn’t think to do for another century: they hired a respected architectural editor, put serious money behind a beautifully produced publication, and sent it — free — to nearly 10,000 architects across... by ssbhayani | Mar 31, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
New Hampshire Takes a Stand for American Lumber A new Senate bill is putting SPFs on the specification sheet. Here’s what the grading debate is really about — and what it means for members and builders. The wood on both sides of the border is nearly identical. The... by ssbhayani | Mar 25, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
Close your eyes. Picture a cabin in the woods. There’s a version of that cabin that lives in everyone’s imagination — raw-hewn logs, a stone fireplace, the smell of pine in the air. But the cabin has evolved. Today’s most compelling retreats pair that same love of the... by ssbhayani | Mar 9, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
The family compound is one of architecture’s most enduring forms — not a building type so much as a philosophy of settlement. It says: we are bound to one another, and the land around us should reflect that. From the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port to the Rockefeller... by ssbhayani | Mar 2, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
Casa CLO by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes is conceived as a lightweight timber house that threads domestic life into a pine forest on the coast of Tarragona, Spain, stepping down a steep, rocky plot with access from the lowest point. Wood is central not just as a...