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Gibson Guitar smokestack to come down…just not yet. Demolition of the old Gibson Guitar factory smokestack on Kalamazoo’s North Side is being planned, but will not start immediately. The new owner of the Kalamazoo Enterprise Center building, 225 Parsons St., needs to properly complete a demolition permit with the city of Kalamazoo before the project…Read moreRead more

Work has commenced on the demolition of Aberdeen’s Craiginches Prison. The building, which has been part of the Torry landscape since the Victorian era, closed its doors last January and is being replaced with some modern developments. It gained fame or notoriety for being the setting for the execution of convicted murderer Harry Burnett –…Read moreRead more

Residents prefer piecemeal deconstruction to implosion. The dilemma about how to best get rid of Candlestick Park is heating up in the Bayview. The city of San Francisco is looking at whether to allow the developer to tear it down piece by piece or to implode the thing in one big blast. ABC7 News spoke…Read moreRead more

Comedy of errors leaves Florida building standing. A video showing its vice president firing an automatic weapon within the confines of an Orlando demolition site might not, in fact, be the most embarrassing aspect of the challenges facing Crusader Demolition right now. The company has now missed two separate deadlines within which it was supposed…Read moreRead more

Management buyout for Black Country contractor. The demolition arm of the Black Country-based Humphries Holdings group has been sold to its management by the couple who have run the business for the past 45 years. David Humphries and his wife Elizabeth, part of the four generations to run the Humphries Demolition business since 1919, have…Read moreRead more

One of London’s best-loved cinemas faces uncertain future. The Curzon Soho, one of London’s flagship arthouse cinemas, may be knocked down to make way for the Crossrail 2 development. The Shaftesbury Avenue venue was once named the best cinema in London by readers of the listings magazine Time Out, but its reign looks to be…Read moreRead more

Time-lapse captures textbook Scandinavian demolition. If someone asked you to describe a Scandinavian demolition site, you would probably come up with something just like this. With a light flurry of snow; tidy, well-organised site; Volvo excavator, it is a project straight from demolition central casting. The job is under the control of AF Decom of…Read moreRead more

No slip-ups in banana warehouse demolition. A 585 square metre warehouse at Gothenburg’s Banana Pier has been demolished using Volvo Construction Equipment, making room for two exciting world-class events. Sweden’s Frihamnspiren (Freeport) opened in 1922 and was for a long time the heart of Gothenburg’s harbor. It consisted of three main piers – Banana Pier,…Read moreRead more