Building
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Real Estate
Using Facebook and Instagram to Find the Perfect Apartment
A family needed more space once their son began to grow up. The boy’s father, who has a long history…
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Queens
This week’s properties are on Central Park South, in Chelsea and in Long Island City.
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World
When a Green Building Is No Longer Green Enough
One Vanderbilt in Midtown was designed with climate change in mind, but it uses natural gas, which the city is…
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Business
In Search for Sustainable Materials, Developers Turn to Hemp
Hemp blocks are costlier than traditional building products, but they help address environmental issues and can shave 20 to 30…
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News
Robert Geddes, Modernist Dean of Princeton’s Architecture School, Dies at 99
As an educator, he worked to put architecture on an equal footing with other disciplines. As an architect, he was…
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World
They Were Told Their Building Was Earthquake Safe. It Collapsed Anyway.
Some structures promoted as being built to modern seismic codes did not withstand the quake in Turkey. One upscale tower…
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Real Estate
I Want to Switch to an Electric Stove. Can the Board Stop Me?
Quitting gas makes sense for the environment and your health, but not all buildings are equipped to go electric.
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Real Estate
At the Domino Sugar Refinery, a Glass Egg in a Brick Shell
After Two Trees took over the restoration of the refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the plan for offices, retail, housing and…
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World
Turkey Widens Investigation Into Contractors as Quake Toll Rises
A top U.N. official said that aid efforts in neighboring Syria had “failed” so far. More than 28,000 people have…
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World
Rebuilding Quake-Stricken Cities in Turkey and Syria May Take Decade
With thousands of buildings having been turned to rubble or half-structures across dozens of cities in Turkey and Syria by…