Special Notes: "Whose bright idea was it to build our dome with wood? Some careless person dropped a match last week. Now our historic building is nothing but a crumbled, charred mess. I want you ...

In Austin, tucked behind the Texas Capitol, a modern building made from the same sunset red granite as the Capitol’s signature dome houses the state’s highest appellate courts.

Many visitors say Austin's Capitol is the most impressive state legislative building they've ever seen. They warn it can be crowded at times (school tours are common). If you want to learn a bit ...

You can fool the governor with a trick that engineers used to build the United States Capitol dome. The U.S. Capitol dome is really an illusion. It's actually a thin shell. And the structure that ...