After the devastating 2011 tsunami, Japan took an extraordinary step to protect its people by constructing a massive 400-kilometer concrete wall along its northeastern coastline. Known as the ...

And as it currently sits, the unsightly, gray wall allows for extended outdoor dining space for four restaurants, though plans to beautify the plain walls with murals, are under way.

A concrete structure collapsed at a Tampa USPS sorting facility on Monday night. Fifty people were inside the facility at the time of the collapse, but there are no reports of injuries. Officials say ...

Burglars tunneled through a concrete wall to gain access to a Los Angeles jewelry store, making off with at least $10 million worth of watches, pendants, gold chains and other merchandise, police ...

April 03, 2025 at 6:00am BST. A Belfast artist has taken the unusual step of trading paint for concrete to create a new peace wall mural.. Debbie Hutchings (55) is a member of the New Life City ...

Tesla has shared footage of a Cybertruck crashing head-on into a concrete wall. The impact was recorded from several angles, and shows the very front of the electric pickup crumpling as it slams ...

Some aviation experts say the fatalities could have been minimized had the plane not collided with the concrete wall. In video of the Jeju Air flight's landing, "you see the airplane skidding ...

A Boeing 737-800 slammed into a mound of dirt and a concrete wall at the end of the runway. The area housed a localizer that guides planes on the runway.

An architecture exhibition at the National Building Museum focuses on the stolid, monumental government buildings from Brutalism’s heyday, reminding us of their history and imagining how they ...

A concrete block retaining wall comprises Concrete Masonry Units (CMUs) — blocks made of concrete. In a retaining wall, these blocks are stacked together in several courses, and capped off with a ...

Concrete Retaining Walls and Stairs. ... She leverages her background as a civil engineer and interior decorator as well as her love for all-things-home to help readers better understand their home.

Walls made at one of its three automated Florida factories travel up to 400 miles—a single home’s worth of material takes about six to eight trucks to transport—and end up saving the firm ...