Click here to download a PDF of High-Performance Reconstructed Buildings: The 99% Solution, the 9th in a Series of White Papers on the Green Building Movement A radical break from the architectural modes of the past, the Modern movement resulted in a half ...

When designing a new structure or making upgrades to existing ones, architects and engineers prepare for them to be impacted by earthquakes.

Personal tastes of presidents - as well as the demands of a growing federal government - has helped dictate changes over time to the White House.

Trump announced one of his most ambitious construction projects of his second term in late July — a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, originally slated to cost roughly $200 million. The ballroom reached new heights of controversy this week when the president revealed a change in earlier plans, mandating that the whole East Wing be destroyed.

The success of suppression operations is determined by the deployment and application of water in sufficient quantities, location and duration–or as engine companies like to say, “Put the wet stuff on the red stuff.” However fundamental, this ...

An interesting five-story red brick condo building is going up on a relatively low-slung Williamsburg block, standing out from its neighbors with a curved and textured facade. Surrounded by a green construction fence, the three-family condo building at 76 ...

Every year, in the middle of summer, hundreds of Hong Kong construction workers and engineers walk up some 200 steps to Ching Lin Terrace in the seaside neighborhood of Kennedy Town. There, in one of the city’s temples, they gather and pay their respects ...

“The thing is, I really paid very little money for this deal,” Mr. Itzhaki said of the property, which he purchased for $2.9 million in 2011. “We think the market might even go higher for condos. I’m building very very high end, with condo finishes.

Explore the creative genius of I.M. Pei as he reshapes the future of architecture in China I.M. Pei: Building China Modern captures Pei as he forges an architectural language that brings together Western modernity and Eastern tradition into a current ...