Demolition

WATCH: Military Tank Demolishes Home

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Weird News, Weird Minnesota, Demolition, Minnesota, Tank Destroys House, MarKessa Baedke-Petersen, Tank Demolishes House, Home Demolitions, Slidewide, Video, Tony Burglum, Kasota, Drive a Tank, Weird Photos & Videos, Drive-a-Tank, Slidepollajax, Weird News News

A company in Kasota, Minn., took home demolition to the next level when they used a tank to raze an abandoned house. The 150-year-old home had been...

Read Whole Story

Emotional Buildings Self Destruct

Tom Mallory | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Urban Housing, Urban Planning Failure, Demolition, Pruitt-Igoe, White U House, Toyo Ito, Minoru Yamasaki, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Today I want to tell two stories, this time not of constructing new exciting architecture but instead of demolition! Demolition, on the one hand, se...

Read Post

Demolition of Vacant and Foreclosed Homes Will Revitalize Neighborhoods

Rep. Marcia L. Fudge | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Northeast Ohio, Revitalize Our Neighborhoods, Foreclosure Crisis, Congresswoman Fudge, Demolition, Cleveland, The Property Value Restoration Act of 2012, Congressman Steve LaTourette, Politics News

Neighborhoods across America have been devastated by the foreclosure crisis and the homeowners who remain now find themselves in communities speckled with vacant and abandoned homes, which cause the value of their homes to plummet.

Read Post

Anthony Sowell's Dilapidated 'House Of Horrors' Demolished (WATCH)

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Video, Demolition, Anthony Sowell, Crime News, Crime, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Serial Killer, Slidepollajax, Serial Killers, Crime News

CLEVELAND -- Serial killer Anthony Sowell's three-story "House of Horrors" was demolished early Tuesday morning. A wrecking crew took about 90 minutes...

Read Whole Story

The Silent Majority: China's Other Lawyers

John Wagner Givens | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Chinese Government, Lawyers, China, Detention, Ai Weiwei, Torture, Demolition, Police, Evictions, World News

We must remember that for every Chinese lawyer whose abduction or detention is reported, thousands of lawyers are challenging the state in myriad unreported ways.

Read Post

Saying Goodbye to Wu Tang

Jeremiah Moss | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Demolition, East Village, Lower East Side, Wu Tang Physical Culture Association, Mars Bar, Nostalgia, Martial Arts, New York News

Welcome to 7 1/2 Second Avenue, also known as 9 Second Avenue, also known as the other half of Germania Flats, one of the 19th-century buildings that will come down alongside Mars Bar this summer.

Read Post

America's Foreclosure Ghost Towns -- Photos From HuffPost Readers

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Demolition, Population Decrease, Ghost Towns, Detroit, Real Estate, Huffington Post Readers, Slidepollajax, Low Real Estate Sales, Las Vegas, Housing Crisis, Foreclosure Crisis, Business News

Since 2007, news of the foreclosure crisis has been nearly constant. Recently, the at-times bombarding reports of unscrupulous banks, unfair foreclosu...

Read Whole Story

Ruscha's 'Psycho Spaghetti Westerns'

Evan J. Garza | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Natural Disaster, Demolition, Blue Collar Paintings, America, Americana, Ed Ruscha, Westerns, Los Angeles, Psycho Spaghetti Western, Standard Stations, Painting, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, Landscape, Gagosian Gallery, Arts News

Read Post

America's Foreclosure Ghost Towns

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Demolition, Population Decrease, Ghost Towns, Real Estate, Wall Street Journal, Las Vegas, Housing Crisis, Detroit, Economist, Low Real Estate Sales, Slidepollajax, Business News

On the cover of their most recent issue, Fortune declares the "return of Real Estate" to be upon us. With the national housing market wrecked by low s...

Read Whole Story

Toxic Building Damaged On 9/11 Is Finally Down

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 9/11, NY Real Estate, Demolition, Deutsche-Bank, September 11th, 911, New York News

NEW YORK — Nearly a decade after it was badly damaged by the falling south tower of the World Trade Center, a 41-story bank tower has finally be...

Read Whole Story

Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei is Still Smiling

Linda Constant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Studio, Art, Human Rights, Demolition, Wan Yanhai, Zhao Lianhai, Liu Xiaobo, Ai Weiwei, China, Shanghai, World News

As news of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's studio demolition, courtesy of Shanghai city authorities, circles the globe and stirs indignation throughout var...

Read Post

WATCH: Hotel Collapses Onto Street After Botched Demolition

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Canada News, Demolition, Accident, Failed Demolitions, Canada, Edmonton, Video, World News

The supposedly controlled demolition of a hotel in downtown Edmonton resulted in a minor headache after the building took an unexpected plunge onto th...

Read Whole Story

Historic Colorado Opera House Threatened With Demolition

Mike Rosso | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Opera House, Preservation, Unique Theater, Demolition, Historic, Salida, Denver News

A landmark building in historic downtown Salida is in imminent danger of demolition unless drastic steps are taken to save it.

Read Post

Banks Demolish New Houses

Eyes and Ears Assignment Desk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosure, Demolition, New Homes, Visions-for-Victory, Home News

Email us if you hear about houses in your area being destroyed by banks that have foreclosed on the property.

Read Post

Implosion Goes Wrong, Building Rolls Over (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Demolition Gone Wrong, Implosion Gone Wrong, Video, Turkey, Demolition, World News

Officials in Turkey are trying to figure out why a building demolition went wrong. Instead of imploding, the structure fell over, narrowly missing a n...

Read Whole Story

UN: Israel Demolitions Must Cease

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Nir Barkat, Jews, Israeli Settlements, Demolition, Israel-Palestine, Settlements, East Jerusalem, Settlements in Palestine, West Bank, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Arabs, Jerusalem, Palestinian Home Demolition, Video, World News

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has issued a report detailing the difficulties facing Palestinians in East Jerusalem who ...

Read Whole Story