A Wellington property home to two 148-year-old kilns is up for sale. The property, which has commercial space on the first two floors, and an apartment on the top, sits opposite Wellington's ...

A blaze in an abandoned building in central Wellington is being investigated as suspected arson. The fire at the old Boys’ Institute on Tasman St in Mount Cook has been extinguished, but the ...

In Oregon, where earthquakes weren’t factored into the building codes until the mid-1970s, surveys estimate 5,000 to 10,000 old brick buildings statewide. Portland alone has about 1,800 ...

Old brick buildings are one of the deadliest structures in an earthquake. Saif Hussain, a structural engineer who has helped write retrofit guidelines for Los Angeles and the American Society of ...

Seismic Neglect | In the first part of a continuing series, The Seattle Times examined officials’ neglect of the most vulnerable kind of building: old, brick structures called unreinforced ...