Editor’s note: This is a corrected version. In the original, information about the requirements for building facades was incorrect. Weeks after a building facade collapsed on Grace Street, the local ...

Heating and cooling buildings is a major consumer of energy, especially older ones that weren’t built with modern energy efficiencies in mind. Now, engineers at Fraunhofer Institute have developed a ...

Who says the façade for a renovation and restoration project needs to be stodgy? Certainly not New York-based architecture firm ODA, which recently finished its conversion of the former Arbuckle Sugar ...

What if we could design buildings that could heat and cool themselves? What if we do this by repurposing existing technology? And what if we could seamlessly integrate this technology into a ...

Think of the wind whipping around office buildings at street level. Because wind circling a building creates a pressure differential (between the outside air and the inside air) and because that ...

Since being adopted in the first half of 2023, 17 businesses have been able to make changes for the better as part of FEDA’s ...

Entegra’s charred wood facade contrasts with 22@’s existing material fabric. Jean Nouvel’s Torre Agbar can be seen in the background. (Oriol Gómez) 22@, which was redeveloped to house Barcelona’s ...

New York City’s building façade inspection process begins with a high wire act. Engineers, dangling from ropes, hundreds of feet in the air inspect the exterior of high-rise buildings. “You’re looking ...

CHINATOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- A building in Chinatown was evacuated Wednesday for fear of collapse after a brick facade partially separated. The FDNY requested Department of Building inspectors to ...

Pieces of a Brooklyn building’s facade fell off Wednesday afternoon — damaging an awning, according to photos and officials. Calls came into FDNY just before 3:15 p.m. for a building collapse at 1412 ...