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300 pounds of dynamite couldn’t topple the concrete and steel core of the former Affiliated Computer Services tower. The building was supposed to come down Sunday morning, but a failed demolition left it with a distinctive tilt — and nickname: “the leaning tower of Dallas.” The implosion by Lloyd D. Nabors Demolition was part of […]
The land on each side of the road where the motels are located is narrow and surrounded by wetlands making it subject to flooding during high tides and heavy rainfall Courtesy: Google Maps Bay Point Inn in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. The owners of four New Jersey motels agreed to sell their properties […]
WOOD COUNTY, W.Va.-(WTAP) Wood County now has nearly $2 million to demolish single-family homes destroyed during severe flooding of the past. Nine of those homes are located in the Happy Valley area off West Virginia route 47, which was hit hard by severe flooding during storms of late 2004 and early 2005. The funding, announced […]
Demolition has started again on Paul Rudolph’s Shoreline Apartments in Buffalo, New York after it was halted two years ago when a resident refused to move off the premises. The demolition of the 1970s brutalist housing complex began on 23 January, after work was stopped in January 2018. Locals took to social media to voice […]
Despite urgency, the conclusion of the Hard Rock Hotel demolition on Canal Street in New Orleans will last into late summer 2020. Why? Safety. Following the catastrophic collapse in October 2019, the crew is taking all measures to ensure it doesn’t happen again. “It is a painstaking process, but once again the goal is that […]
A vacant Kmart in Denbigh has long been an eyesore — and sometimes an annoyance — to Newport News city employees and many of the people who walk and drive past the barren parking lot and structure each day. The city will invite people to decorate and deface the structure at an upcoming event. Inside […]
Millennium Hotel CINCINNATI — The Millennium Hotel is all but cleared for demolition after the Hamilton County Convention Facilities Authority approved the use of hotel tax money to buy and tear down Downtown’s most vilified property. But what will replace the Millennium is still up in the air. The original […]
Details, an organization in Baltimore, is one of dozens of similar groups around the country helping to remake cities through deconstruction. USA TODAY (Photo: Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY) BALTIMORE — One sunny morning, several men and one woman wearing hard hats pick apart the insides of an old vacant rowhouse. Dust dances around what was once a living room. A rotting […]
The south side of Temple Square in Salt Lake City is about to look drastically different. Demolition on the Temple Square South Visitors’ Center and portions of the Temple Square’s south wall began Friday as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints starts a four-year renovation of its Salt Lake Temple and the surrounding […]
The construction industry is wasteful and creates huge CO2 emissions. But what if new buildings had to be adapted and resused or built only with materials already available? Should we start thinking of buildings as material depots, full of reusable resources for the next construction project? Photograph: Omar Marques/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media The wrecking ball has […]