WHITEWATER — What it is: Buildings constructed during the 1960s building boom on the UW-Whitewater campus are starting to show their age. Major renovation projects are underway on two of the buildings ...

Today, many construction projects drag on and on and are nearly all rebuilding older structures. The 1960s was a decade-long building boom. A look at just 1965 shows the volume for nearly every year ...

Yet again, the fate of downtown's Humble-Exxon tower is in doubt. Once a major point of Houston pride, the 1963 skyscraper sat empty for more than a decade. Now it's tangled in a foreclosure battle.

The majority of the 1960s building—the superstructure, including roof, outer envelope, and basement slabs—was retained. But behind the building, the architects were permitted to add a new ...