The proposed bypass fix for the troubled Fremont Street girders of San Francisco’s Salesforce Transit Center calls for bolting 20-in.-wide steel cover plates above and below the area around each fractured bottom flange, like a 14-ft-long double splint.
The country celebrated its 101st year of independence on December 6 by dedicating “Oodi (Ode),” the long-awaited new Helsinki Central Library, designed by ALA Architects.
San Francisco officials and the city’s team scrutinizing permit applications for shoring the 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower—which has settled 17 in. and tilted 4 in. over more than a decade—say the review will last several months.
The new interactive exhibit by British artist Esmeralda “Es” Devlin is housed in a concrete disk-shaped volume outside of the Thomas Heatherwick–designed museum in Cape Town.