ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Let’s recall how this began. A week ago, Michael Block was a guy. A very good golfer, sure, but a guy. Really, no different than any of the other 19 club pros competing in the PGA ...

Roli has taken the wraps off Blocks, a new modular system for creating electronic music. Roli calls its creation a "modular music studio," one that is as suitable for beginners as it is music experts.

Bilo is a building block set that lets kids build models digitally through real blocks in front of them. Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The blocks have micro controllers in them, ...

In a world composed of so many squares, the designer and technologist Jonathan Bobrow is making the case for triangles. He’s created paper building blocks based on equilateral triangles that enable ...

L'Eixample, the neighborhood Ildefons Cerdà created in Barcelona. He saw each block as a close-knit community. Most of us don’t think a whole lot about city blocks. They’re just there, part of the ...

When famed architect Frank Gehry agreed to design The Grand, a $1-billion, mixed-use complex in downtown Los Angeles, the construction team expected something unconventional. After all, Gehry had ...

The reference to our hot rods as toys implies that we are somehow childlike and compelled to continue to play with toys. While I personally feel vintage cars and hot rods are much more than simple ...

Whether you’re a building god or just setting up your dirt shack (a soon-to-be dirt mansion) for storing supplies, we have all built at least something in Minecraft. If you’re looking for something ...

It’s Will Shortz’s construction site, we’re just tinkering. By Caitlin Lovinger BUILDING BLOCKS — It’s been some years since we’ve seen this flavor of variety puzzle on a Sunday, and I don’t remember ...