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Burned homes near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 9. The Summary California leaders have promised that the post-fire rebuilding process will be speedy.
Since then, the city of Malibu says it has issued 296 permits to rebuild homes and that just 363 applications to rebuild have been approved by the planning commission.
After spending his teenage years in and out of jail, Robert Clark turned his life around. Now he's committed himself to helping the at-risk youth of Newark do the same, by leading them in building ...
The homes reflect the style and quality of traditional New Orleans [citation needed] architecture. Build Now brought more than a dozen New Orleans families back home, including construction around the Lakeview, Gentilly and the Upper and Lower Ninth Ward areas. The organization moved New Orleans families back home since beginning operations in ...
Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady, opened in 2005) in Dresden, Germany, reconstructed after its destruction during World War II. Reconstruction in architectural conservation is the returning of a place to a known earlier state by the introduction of new materials. [1]
The Public Buildings Administration was asked to investigate the condition of the White House, but no action was taken until January 1948. After the commissioner of the Public Buildings Administration, which had responsibility for the White House, noticed the Blue Room chandelier swaying overhead during another crowded reception, he and the White House Architect conducted their own on-site ...
Like many in Amizmiz, 40-year-old plumber Rachid Alachoun said his family plans to stay and rebuild. Half of their home near the town's old Jewish quarter, the Mellah, collapsed during the quake.
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...