“It’s been an idea for over three decades. How did the clock that will run for 10,000 years become a reality?”
Construction
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The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame
“How an army of artisans turned back centuries to restore Notre-Dame by hand, and wound up reviving something even greater than the cathedral itself.”
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Rebuilding the Maze
“After a crucial section of a California freeway collapsed, this formidable construction boss pulled off one of the fastest, riskiest, most high-stakes reconstructions in U.S. history.”
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Can 3-D Printing Help Solve the Housing Crisis?
“Standard construction can be slow, costly, and inefficient. Machines might do it better.”
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House of Cards
An interactive visual investigation detailing how decades of problems led to the collapse of a condominium tower in Surfside, Florida.
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Trapped: The Grenfell Tower Story
The untold story of what it felt like to fight that fire and to flee it — a story of a thousand impossible decisions and the people who dared to make them.