Christopher Petersen often describes what he does as “building memories.” Petersen, 63, lives in Colorado but grew up in Park Ridge, in a white house on Washington Street. That house has seen some ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Mylyn Nguyen is an artist who creates scale models of buildings from around her hometown. These replicas are made out of paper and boxboard. More from Real Estate Mylyn ...

Alec Garrard, an 82-year-old retired farmer from Norfolk, England, has spent the last thirty years working on a 1:100 scale model of Herod’s Biblical Temple. Mr. Garrard has liked creating models all ...

Miniatures are full of bite-sized portions of our world and lives. By transcending spatial norms, models envision and measure real-world size and performance. They help to understand the cultural and ...