Home New Rules for Modern Building Construction February 1, 2010 FirefighterNation Staff 4 min read ...

Dezeen's latest series investigates one of the world's oldest building materials – cob. Building with Cob will explore how this ancient, earth-based material is being reinvented for the modern age.

The historic brownstone built in the 1920s was once a center of medical research that drew national attention to Connecticut.

All too often when one brings up the subject of modern architecture between the wars, the relationship to the landscape is assumed to be irrelevant, or worse, even antithetical, to modernist concepts.

The building has a modern look with a metal-and-glass exterior The RSHP and Adamson Associates Architects teams worked together to integrate the new, modern building with the historic hall.