In woodworking, “joinery” is the joining of pieces of lumber to produce something more complex. The more challenging the joint, the stronger it is, the longe...

The greenest window is the one that already exists.

To become a certified Living Building, The Joinery has to meet 20 Imperatives required by the International Living Future Institute. No. 5 is Net Positive Wa...

Masonry wrapped up this month on The Joinery. It was no small job—over 40,000 brick made up the building's front steps, porch perimeter, columns, and triple-w...

As part of the Living Building Challenge™, The Joinery has to meet 20 Imperatives required by the International Living Future Institute. No. 13 is Living Eco...

The Joinery will be built with 40,000 modular brick—supplied locally by Acme Brick Company. We visited the Tulsa plant in early March to learn about where th...

Oklahomans are no strangers to severe weather. In fact, many of us are culturally wired to go outside when clouds darken, winds howl, and thunder rumbles. It...

The walls of The Joinery will be built to last. We're employing one of the oldest and most resilient building methodologies: structural masonry. This refers ...

The Joinery will have brick interior and exterior walls. A portion of our brick was generously donated by Michael McWilliams. The rest we are sourcing from A...

About 1,200 square feet of hard maple wood with a lingering aroma of Cain’s Ballroom is stored in the corner of Nathan Pickard’s community woodshop. If you w...

If you had to draw a map of the city from an aerial view, what would it include? What would it leave out? And what would both reveal about how your identity ...

When we describe The Joinery as a "community-minded residence," some of the first questions we get are "Who's going to live there?" and "What will it be used...

Along with brick and concrete, wood plays an essential role in the structural integrity of The Joinery. While all three have their different applications, ou...

Soon after we broke ground on The Joinery, we forged our first partnership with a local supplier. Randy Heckenkemper of Site Solar offered to lease us a sola...

We interviewed architect Molly Jones on Dec. 21, 2018 — the fifth anniversary of Jones Design Studio — about sustainability, the Living Building Challenge, a...

Our small team broke ground on The Joinery in North Tulsa’s historic Brady Heights neighborhood this morning. When all is said and done, The Joinery on Denve...

Exciting news: We plan to start construction on The Joinery in a matter of weeks! We met with our local team of architects this morning. And, we've made one ...

Where an old asphalt parking lot sat for 60 years, we will be creating a place of beauty and belonging by mimicking nature's design, while using natural mate...

We are reusing our neighbor's bathtub in The Joinery, because 100-year-old bathtubs shouldn't be thrown away, and we would hate to see it leave our historic ...