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Using Facebook and Instagram to Find the Perfect Apartment

A family needed more space once their son began to grow up. The boy’s father, who has a long history…

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Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Queens

This week’s properties are on Central Park South, in Chelsea and in Long Island City.

World

When a Green Building Is No Longer Green Enough

One Vanderbilt in Midtown was designed with climate change in mind, but it uses natural gas, which the city is…

Finance

In Search for Sustainable Materials, Developers Turn to Hemp

Hemp blocks are costlier than traditional building products, but they help address environmental issues and can shave 20 to 30…

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Robert Geddes, Modernist Dean of Princeton’s Architecture School, Dies at 99

As an educator, he worked to put architecture on an equal footing with other disciplines. As an architect, he was…

World

They Were Told Their Building Was Earthquake Safe. It Collapsed Anyway.

Some structures promoted as being built to modern seismic codes did not withstand the quake in Turkey. One upscale tower…

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I Want to Switch to an Electric Stove. Can the Board Stop Me?

Quitting gas makes sense for the environment and your health, but not all buildings are equipped to go electric.

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At the Domino Sugar Refinery, a Glass Egg in a Brick Shell

After Two Trees took over the restoration of the refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the plan for offices, retail, housing and…

World

Turkey Widens Investigation Into Contractors as Quake Toll Rises

A top U.N. official said that aid efforts in neighboring Syria had “failed” so far. More than 28,000 people have…

World

Rebuilding Quake-Stricken Cities in Turkey and Syria May Take Decade

With thousands of buildings having been turned to rubble or half-structures across dozens of cities in Turkey and Syria by…

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