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Remembered Embers

Original Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, destroyed by fire

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Irwin Wreck

Historic Columbus, Indiana, building destroyed in weekend blaze

a modern flanked by a stand of tall pine trees
Our New Flames

New projects demonstrate how designers in California respond to increased fire risks

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Rise from the Ashes

Donald Judd’s Architecture Office in Marfa will be reconstructed following 2021 fire

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On Fire, Under Fire

Daily digest: She-Hulk bench condemned for anti-homeless architecture, fire destroys building at fabled Catskills resort, and more

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Hot Stuff

Daily digest: Pop art legend Claes Oldenburg passes away, the U.K. broils during historic heatwave, and more

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A Total Loss

Nantucket hotel fire ravages America’s largest National Historic Landmark District

a modernist university building in rio, damaged by fire and that will be given a new lease on life thanks to the getty foundation
Helping Hand

Getty Foundation announces a grant to restore a trove of fire-damaged Brazilian architectural documents

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Early Addition

Daily digest: Dance will return to Unity Temple, residents sue over the SoHo rezoning, and more today

exterior of Glasgow school of art mackintosh building pre fire
We’ll Never Know

Cause of Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building fire remains a mystery despite a new report

John hancock tower, a tall building wrapped in a diagrid brace
Treacherous Towers

Daily digest: Cladding falls from the Hancock Center, the sad history of the Bronx’s Twin Parks North West, and more

The surfside condo tower the day of collapse
Looking South

Daily digest: Key West’s Southernmost Point landmark is burned, a virtual tour of the doomed Champlain towers, and more

the top of a damaged apartment tower wrapped in protective material, grenfell tower
Coming Down?

Grenfell Tower will be demolished over local safety concerns

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Cladding Culprit

Officials blame flammable cladding after intense Milan high-rise blaze

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In A Flash

Daily digest: A quick flicker brought down New York’s subway system, what happens when you burn Hempcrete, and more

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., was forced to return 12,000 looted artifacts to Iraq. the museum building is brick with a glass topper
Giving Back

Daily digest: The Dixie Fire wipes away a California town, thousands of looted artifacts repatriated to Iraq, and more

Image of Olympia in Greece, threatened by wildifres
Peloponnese and Attica in Flames

Wildfires threaten the birthplace of the Olympics and other historical sites across Greece

An image of St. Simon's Catholic Church surrounded by student housing
Tinderbox City

Glasgow’s 163-year-old St. Simon’s Catholic Church razed by fire overnight

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