Some people remember the old ZeroPak building from its days as an apple processing and storage facility. Others only know it ...

Human error led to the deadly parking garage collapse in lower Manhattan two years ago, according to a New York City Department of Buildings report. The report ...

Smith Young Architects has won the RIBA North West’s Building of the Year 2025 award for a new detached house described as ...

If the wall is made of concrete, bricks, or blocks, it may be a load-bearing wall. Not all masonry is structural and capable ...

Estruch . Estudi E. Torres Pujol . Ripoll Tizón Arquitectes. Located on the border between the urban area and the ‘Serral de ses Monges’ park, overlooked by the Mon ...

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"employees of the parking garage business improperly removed bricks and mortar from a load-bearing brick pier just below the third floor of the nearly 100-year-old building without implementing ...

Over many decades, certain load-bearing piers – which are vertical structural components used ... That deterioration caused cracks in the masonry, the report released on April 28 found.

Most wall cracks can be remedied by re-taping drywall joints. Sometimes, though, cracks in walls signify a larger problem.

The report found the parking garage collapsed after workers began dismantling bricks -- without knowing they were holding up the 98-year-old building ... load-bearing brick pier," the final ...

Commissioners learned last year that cracks had formed in the concrete. Now they’re learning of more issues, based on a peer ...

Instead, the workers were dismantling a load bearing column itself. The ongoing brick removal significantly weakened the structure, and on April 18, 2023 at 4:04 p.m., when a parking garage worker ...