Manhattan Project building preserved
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Even as a secret community that gave birth to the atomic bomb morphed into a bustling government-lab town, many of its most historic sites remained tucked away from view.
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A Manhattan firehouse glistened with a fresh coat of red paint on Saturday, memorial quilts were put on display, and an enormous American flag billowed from the George Washington Bridge, all parts of the preparations for the approaching fifth anniversary of the World Trade Center attack.
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A historic Hollywood studio that was the former headquarters of Columbia Pictures has been sold.
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Personal photographs recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Center are to be returned to families.
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On Amchitka Island, former site of nuclear-weapons testing, a federal monitoring program takes effect this week.
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Â·  Speer's military academy buried under hill of rubble Â·  Underground complex reborn as visual tour
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Arts & entertainment: Some of the most radical buildings ever made owe their existence to Cecil Balmond. Jonathan Glancey salutes the engineer who defies belief.
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A small but influential number of celebrity architects are considering selling their archives as they continue to work.
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Arts & entertainment: English Heritage makes a small addition to the nation's collection of protected buildings
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photos The NowHouse project in San Francisco brings together the latest in design, construction and digital wares.
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At the Getty Institute, conservators work to preserve art constructed out of an ever-expanding array of synthetic products.
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Newly discovered snapshots donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provide a stunning counterpoint to what up until now has been the only major source of preliberation Auschwitz photos.
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Visitors to the Sept. 11 memorial will see two huge pieces of the World Trade Center's original steel facade inside a glass-walled pavilion that leads them to the museum devoted to the terrorist attacks.
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Scientists have salvaged intact materials from the Genesis space probe that crashed in the Utah desert last week after its parachutes failed to deploy, the US space agency said.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan -- Radioactive material leaked undetected for days at an earthquake-battered nuclear power plant even as the utility was assuring the public that the damage posed no danger to those outside the site, company executives acknowledged yesterday.
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Today the National Trust for Historic Preservation plans to sound the alarm by declaring Brooklynâs industrial waterfront one of Americaâs 11 most endangered historic places.
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Syria has cleared away all traces of a large building that experts say was bombed by Israeli jets last month because it was suspected of housing a partially finished nuclear reactor, according to a new satellite image that shows only freshly groomed dirt at the site.