David Rockwell builds at Ground Zero

Most of the houses were built on ruins, but had been well restored.

They destroyed national architectural treasures, schools, hospitals, mosques and other facilities, and left the greater part of Baku in ruins.

Do you have having been as physically involved in the site as you have been doing this project have any ideas about what should or shouldn't be done?

What's interesting now is the nature of the site has totally changed, so that what you're aware of is not just the destruction of the buildings in Ground Zero, but all of the buildings around it and the scars on the building around it, which are enormous.

Rebuilding the Ruins of Qaddafi

Ruins

Bodies of some victims were found trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings, he said, adding 540 people were injured and 29 were missing.

In the ruins of the village of Quyzhak the FFM interviewed three men extracting scrap metal among the ruins.

Some six houses in Mollalar were built on ruins these generally had scrap metal roofs and barns nearby also built on ruins.

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In Fizuli town there were, however, traces of scavenging for building materials, parts of the technical infrastructure (pipes, street lamps) and firewood.

There were ruins on the outskirts of the villages.

At the ruins of Bir Acroma.

Then among the ruins.

The new houses were nestled among the ruins of some twenty other houses.

Building materials A range of energy efficient, low waste and cleaner technologies are now available for the production of building materials including cement, bricks, blocks and roofing tiles.

rehabilitation (involving partial repair to the structure's central core and a new roof, using both new materials and materials from nearby ruins) to

Although it still contains many ruins and not all of its infrastructure has been repaired, the FFM observed many fully reconstructed or built from scratch buildings and houses.

Many people were reported trapped in the rubble of buildings brought down in the 7.5 magnitude earthquake which struck Friday and triggered waves as high as 20 feet, agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told a news conference.

After exploring recently abandoned buildings, I felt that everything could fall into ruins very fast your home, your office, a shopping mall, a church any man made structures around you.

All of them appear to have been built on the ruins of former dwellings.

Let me share with members some additional findings

They're in the ruins outside town. Come on!

Now it's nothing but ashes.

The lake hides the ruins of a town.

Then, upon the ruins ofthe chapel...

Unlike the relatively rapid cleanup after the Great Hanshin Earthquake, only 5 of the total amount of rubble created by last year s disaster has been processed so far. Temporary sites for rubble in affected areas are being piled with the remnants of building materials and domestic appliances and furnishings, creating little mountains here and there, as rules on recycling instituted since 1995 require sorting waste by material.

That causes a lot of waste in the building industry.

In Agdam town and in its suburbs the FFM saw evidence of some extraction of metal and building materials from ruins and infrastructure, as well as limited grazing activity.

There was significant evidence of the extraction of construction materials, firewood, metals of all kinds.

In one hour everything was reduced to rubble.

Daylight never exposed so total a ruin.

As I was saying, upon the ruins of the chapel...

And six months after the fact and only a few months away from the site being cleaned we are very quickly, now, getting to the point where those conversations about what should go there are getting serious.

The United Nations was built as the house of peace for humanity, which lay battered in the ruins of a great war.

Whole villages and townships are heaps of rubble.

They practice foul rites at night in certain caves and old ruins outside the city.

Or at least the charred ruins?

It's downtowns becoming ghost towns.

After the hurricane, their house was a wreck.

The town of Jebrail is totally uninhabited and in complete ruins.

The percentage of ruins increases towards the edges of town.