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 ...

A building's façade acts as a first impression of the contents within. Is it chic and minimalist, or bold and expressive? Each year we're seeing more products hit the market that differentiate and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Badly burned from a three-alarm fire on September 14, the abandoned commercial building at 407 Dauphin Street is considered a “total loss” except for the front brick façade. The front façade could be ...

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 ...

The Bronx building that partially collapsed on Monday had been issued a summons related to the structural integrity of its sidewalk shed, according to a summons issued last month by city inspectors.

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 ...