In 2004, truck driver Joe Macken created a miniature replica of New York City’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza out of balsa wood.

Miniatures are full of bite-sized portions of our world and lives. By transcending spatial norms, models envision and measure real-world size and performance. They help to understand the cultural and ...

As a child, Joe Macken vowed to build a scale-model replica of New York City. Decades later, it's being displayed in an Upper ...

Christopher Petersen often describes what he does as “building memories.” Petersen, 63, lives in Colorado but grew up in Park Ridge, in a white house on Washington Street. That house has seen some ...

Public sculpture has shaped the American landscape. Since the country’s beginnings, monuments and memorials have conveyed history, morality, and civic pride. Its role as a primarily commemorative ...

A pair of scale model structures subjected to simulated storm conditions in an lab responded like real wood-frame homes during recent hurricanes, suggesting model buildings can yield important design ...