Montreal: when a Forgotten Industrial Landmark burns
In the early hours between 20 and 21 January 2026, a major fire tore through the former Barsalou/Familex factory in Montreal, a...
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Fire Safety Lessons from the 2026 Crans-Montana Bar Fire for Heritage and Historic Venues
The New Year’s Eve fire at Le Constellation in Crans-Montana is a tragic reminder that crowd-intensive venues in heritage settings...
Christmas Markets under Pressure: from Terror Plots to “Ordinary” Disasters
Across Europe, Christmas markets are more than seasonal shopping events. They are recurring public rituals that each year re‑occupy historic...
The Laborie Estate Fire – Heritage Resilience and WUI in Paarl (South Africa)
Date of Incident: December 20, 2025 Location: Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa Site Classification: Grade II Provincial Heritage Site (Cape Dutch Werf) Laborie Wine...
Why Cost–benefit Analysis matters for Historic Buildings
When deciding how to protect a historic building, it is not enough to ask “Is this measure technically effective?” The...
Rebuilding a Canadian Heritage Village with Fire-Resilient Principles
On June 30, 2021, during a record-breaking heat dome, the Village of Lytton, British Columbia (Canada) — home to about...
Suspicious Fire Destroys Abandoned Church in Scotland
The overnight fire that on December 7, 2025 engulfed the 182-year-old Pollokshaws Parish Church on Shawbridge Street serves as a...
What is Cost-Benefit Analysis for Cultural Heritage?
If you're managing a historic building or cultural site, you face tough decisions about where to spend limited money—especially on...
Damage Limitation Team in Resource-Constrained Heritage Sites
Many cultural heritage sites operate with limited budgets, relying on restricted public funds or modest tourism revenues. Nevertheless, these sites...
Fire at Public Archives in Zagreb
Late on November 17, 2025, a large fire ripped through the Vjesnik skyscraper on Slavonska Avenue in Zagreb, burning vertically...
How Smart Technologies Improve Historic Buildings Safety
Preserving historic buildings means safeguarding not just architectural masterpieces—but the collective memory and cultural identity of communities. Today, smart technologies...
What if Smart Technologies had been implemented at the National Museum of Brazil or Notre Dame?
The catastrophic fires at the National Museum of Brazil (2018) and Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris (2019) resulted in irreversible losses—millions...
Timeless Urban Safety: The Treatise of Roman-Byzantine Palestine
In 2001, Architect Besim S. Hakim published on the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians the paper titled “Julian...
The Notre-Dame de Paris Fire Investigations
Six years after the Notre-Dame de Paris fire, official investigations and published sources converge on certain results and primary hypotheses...
Fire in Historic Center in Bretagne (France)
A significant fire broke out in a small apartment building on Rue des Augustins in the historic center of Vitré...
