Engineers studying the collapsed Florida tower said there seemed to be less steel reinforcement in certain areas than would have been expected from the 1979 design drawings.

These drawings and specifications are given to the CorTek sub-contractor in order to begin shop drawings. Once the all-steel cores are delivered on site, the CorTek installation process entails three ...

Last of two parts [View Part 1] The company that fabricated the Chrysler Building’s steel punched a hole in my assumption about who supplied it. To me, it only made sense that American Bridge, a ...

Piano clad his building in narrow bands of gray-stained cypress. Johnston Marklee chose 2-foot-wide laminated boards of dark-stained, bead-blasted Port Orford cedar to face parts of the building not ...

New Drawings Appear for 225 West 57th Street - The Tallest Residential Building in the World By Henry Melcher • July 10, 2014 • Architecture , Development , East , Skyscrapers SHARE ...

The New York Times created a 3-D model of the tower based on the original design drawings. ... Flawed reinforcing steel The steel that reinforces the building’s slabs and columns is crucial to ...

Drawings of the new tower — a 90-percent wooden building with vibration-damping steel braces — show a boxy structure whose gridlike façades are studded with balconies and festooned with greenery.