We live on the 4th floor of a brownstone where in the rear a small deck is located over the ceiling of the 3rd floor. It runs the width of the building and extends about 8 feet “in” from the rear wall ...

Few aspects of architecture are as dramatic as the cantilever, a rigid structural element that extends horizontally, unsupported at one end, from a building. It’s the closest an edifice can come to ...

Towers with sections that extend into the open air seem to defy gravity. Here are a few ways architects and engineers make it happen. By Tim McKeough It’s one thing for an architect to sketch a ...

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...

Maersk Contractors is building four identical independent leg cantilever jack ups with an innovative XY cantilever design at Keppel FELS in Singapore. The first rig, the Maersk Resilient (Fig. 1), was ...