It's a product of LEGO's ambition – that the builds got so massive that the designers needed an underlying structure to stabilize them. It also eased many LEGO fans into a whole new sub-genre of ...

The only thing makers like more than building things is making systems to build things. [Eric Hunting] has compiled a list of these modular building systems. As the well-known XKCD comic likes to ...

LEGO announces so many new sets, it's hard to keep track of what's coming and when. To ease your mind and your purchase planning pain, I’ve gathered every announced set and its release date in one ...

Architect William Van Alen’s plans for the building’s formidable steel helmet grew taller and more ambitious over time. NYPL On a mild October day in 1929, the architect William Van Alen watched from ...

We’ve found that the best modular sofas don’t actually look like modular sofas, making them an especially smart buy to have in your design arsenal. In fact, we think these streamlined silhouettes ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading consumer economics subject matter expert, ...