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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 […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) -One person is dead after what officials are calling an “accident” on Seapoint Boulevard near President Street Extension. The property owner confirmed to WTOC that a third party contractor has died while demolishing the former Tronox Plant, an old gypsum factory. The Chatham County Coroner says the man died when a large […]
What was left standing of the building at 1433 Circle Ave. came down and the rubble was cleared away during the week of Dec. 16. But building tenant John Stange is angry at the building owner and village of Forest Park, stating that he lost over $1 […]
Passersby near Auke Bay may have looked askance at the dredging going on in the shallow end of the harbor, curious what the end goal is. Wonder no more. The dredging of the inner basin of Don D. Statter Memorial Boat Harbor is the first part of a 3-year, $12 million dollar project by City […]
DETROIT (WXYZ) — A Detroit demolition group has allegedly demolished the wrong house for a second time, the city said on Wednesday. The Detroit Building Authority issued a violation notice on Wednesday morning to Adamo Group for a wrongful demolition. It was fist reported by the Detroit Free Press. According to the DBA, the contractor […]
NEW ORLEANS: Get used to the sight of the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel: It’s going to be looming over Canal Street well into next year. New Orleans officials said Thursday they don’t expect to recover two bodies trapped on the site until March and contractors won’t finish demolishing the building’s severely damaged top floors […]
Residents of Powelton Village — a tree-lined neighborhood of Victorian townhomes — watch ever-expanding Drexel University with a wary eye. “We are located near growing institutions and the most active commercial office market in the region,” said McCarty, who co-chairs the neighborhood group’s zoning committee. […]