There's no shortage of materials for garden benches. Each has its own aesthetic and practical advantages. However, two materials often come to mind here: concrete and wood. To figure out which one is ...

If you hiked Runyon Canyon between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Sunday, you may have noticed a curious new piece of furniture on the trail. You may have even sat on it. The angular cement bench that users of ...

Encinitas will take out all of its remaining U-shaped, concrete seating spaces along Coast Highway 101 in downtown because of complaints about them becoming trash-filled, “public nuisances.” In a 4-1 ...

Workers on Tuesday demolished a concrete retaining wall on a busy corner of Anchorage’s Spenard neighborhood that police and business owners said had become a magnet for public drinking and other ...