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Elevation of academic building
R&R

Paul Revere Williams’ UCLA building gets a refresh and retrofit from CO Architects

rendering of a stacked pedestrian bridge/plaza crossing a river
Building Back Up

OMA’s stacked pedestrian bridge in Jojutla, Mexico, enters development

facade of a historic event hall in brooklyn
Forces of Nature

Daily digest: Demolition permit filed for Brooklyn’s Grand Prospect Hall, flooding damages Trump’s border wall, and more

rendering of an angular glass building
Going With The Floe

Perkins&Will reimagines an earthquake-battered Anchorage office building as a glacier-like landmark

Hollywood center, a massive mixed-use development with two towers surrounding a round office building
It's a New Millennium

Handel Architects’ Hollywood Center could be endangered by seismic faults

brick buildings in portland, oregon
Brick Beef

Portland yanks online database of unreinforced masonry buildings

An image of a large gray building with a sweeping concave roof on the water.
Shake It Up

Why doesn’t the U.S. design buildings to survive earthquakes?

Photo of Seattle skyline
Earthquake-Proof Engineering

Seattle boosts building codes for high-rises after study deems them at risk

An aerial shot of Pabellón ( ). (Jaime Navarro)
MEXTRÓPOLI 2018

A Mexican pavilion offers space for post-earthquake renewal and reflection

Renzo Reconstruction

Renzo Piano to lead reconstruction efforts after Italian earthquake

Bracing Architecture

This three-sided concrete skyscraper can withstand earthquakes and stand for 2,500 years

Seismic hot spots and facade design: Experts explain the risks and rewards

30 Years in the making, land artist Alberto Burri’s Grande Cretto in Sicily finally complete

Shigeru Ban to help relief efforts in Nepal

What’s shaking up Dallas-Fort Worth? Dozens of earthquakes rattling the Texas metroplex

Los Angeles proposes ambitious, and costly, earthquake plan

On View> Groundswell: Guerilla Architecture in Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake

On View> Installation exposes earthquake country in Silver Lake, Los Angeles

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