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UK: Fire Breaks Out at Under-Construction Glasgow Luxury Flats

A major fire broke out Monday afternoon, December 1, at the Park Pavilions luxury apartment development, an eight-story building under construction in Glasgow’s Battlefield area. Smoke was seen billowing from the penthouse, and a window frame reportedly fell as the flames intensified. Seven to eight fire engines and a high-reach vehicle responded, and firefighters brought the blaze under control with no reported injuries.

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Deadly Airstrike Hits Gaza

A Palestinian woman peers out from a shattered window frame of a damaged building in Al-Shatea refugee camp in Gaza City, Palestinian territories on October 29, 2025. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, at least 110 Palestinians were killed and several others wounded as Israeli airstrikes hit multiple residential areas in the Gaza Strip. Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Texas Flooding-Aftermath - US

The frame of a building stands near the banks of the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, the United States, July 11, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump visited central Texas on Friday, clapping back again at the criticism of his policy and federal response to the July 4 major flooding that left at least 121 dead and more than 150 others missing. Photo by Nick Wagner/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Yase-Hieiyamaguchi Station

Yase Hieiyamaguchi Station. The station building is supported by a beautiful riveted steel frame that has remained from the time of its opening.=April 18,2025,Kyoto

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China: Billboard Blown Down by Gusty Wind Amid Sandstorm in Yinchuan

On April 11, 2025, in Yinchuan, located in northwestern China’s Ningxia province, a video captured an intense sandstorm turning the sky yellow and dark. The atmosphere appeared apocalyptic as dust filled the air. Suddenly, a nearby building was blown over by the powerful wind. Its steel frame crumbled and fell onto several parked vehicles, causing panic among onlookers and drivers. The frightening scene shocked Chinese viewers online. Many compared it to a scene from a disaster movie, with nature showing its uncontrollable force.

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Nanning Pumped Storage Power Station Construction

NANNING, CHINA - APRIL 15, 2025 - Builders inspect the generator lower frame of the Nanning pumped storage power station building before installation, Nanning City, Guangxi Province, China on April 15, 2025.

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Syria after Assad December 18 Damascus

A broken frame of a picture of Bashar al-Aassad (right), Hafez al-Assad (middle) and Bassel al-Assad (left) lies on the floor in the infamous Intelligence Building in Damascus, Syria on January 7, 2025. The Intelligence Building that hosts the Branch 235 or Palestine Branch, had a prison underneath it and is associated with memories of torture for Syrians, making it the most gruesome place in Damascus after Sednaya Prison. Photo by Osama Al Maqdoni/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Palestinian Refugees Return To Al-Yarmouk Camp - Damascus

The shattered remains of a building frame the destruction in Yarmouk camp, Damascus, Syria, on December 19, 2024. The camp, one of the largest Palestinian camps in Syria, has been reduced to rubble by the Syrian regime's attacks. Photo by Fadel Itani/MIddle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Russians hits psychiatric hospital in Kharkiv with S-300 missiles

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 27, 2024 - A man takes out a broken window frame at the food block of Psychiatric Hospital N3 in the Saltivskyi district following a nighttime Russian S-300 missile strike, Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. On April 27 at 00:30 local time, Russian troops attacked Psychiatric Hospital N3 in Kharkiv with S-300 air defence missiles. Windows, roof, out-of-use building, food block, boiler room and other buildings were damaged. A 53-year-old woman was injured. There were 60 patients and 5 hospital staff members during the strike.

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Windows boarded up with OSB sheets after shelling in Zaporizhzhia

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - MARCH 27, 2024 - Window of an apartment block, shattered by an explosive wave from a Russian missile strike on March 22, is covered with plastic sheeting on a wooden frame, Zaporizhzhia, south-eastern Ukraine.

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Impact of Russian missile strike on Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - MARCH 21, 2024 - A man inspects a window frame damaged by a Russian missile attack from inside an apartment in the affected building in Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Izium

IZIUM, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 - A photo frame lies on the ground outside an apartment building that was destroyed by Russian troops in early March 2022, Izium, Kharkiv Region, northeastern Ukraine. As reported, more than 50 people died in the basement of a residential building at 2 Pamiati (Memory) Street where they were hiding from an air raid and artillery attack at the same time.

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Flowers planted outside residential building bombed by Russians and murals created on walls of surviving blocks In Dnipro

DNIPRO, UKRAINE - JULY 20, 2023 - Broken window frames are seen next to a destroyed apartment block 50 residents of which were killed by a Russian missile strike on January 14, 2023, on Peremohy Embankment, Dnipro, eastern Ukraine

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Hiroshima in ruins after U.S. atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows a store, Odamasa Shoten, whose frame was twisted by the blast from the U.S. atomic bombing. Standing next to it is the exterior of the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper building. The photo was taken in Ebisu, Hiroshima City, sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug. 11, 1945.

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People walk by frame of building damaged by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People on Jan. 1, 2015, walk by the iron frame of public disaster prevention building in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The prefectural government is considering taking ownership of the frame until the town office's final decision on whether to preserve it as a disaster monument.

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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Abe visits UNESCO-registered Tomioka Silk Mill

TOMIOKA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R, front row) tours a silk-reeling plant at the Tomioka Silk Mill, a newly added UNESCO World Heritage site built in 1872, on July 23, 2014. Abe visited the site, which also includes timber-frame brick masonry buildings for cocoon warehouses, to help promote the historic factory building in Tomioka, Gunma Prefecture, to foreign tourists. (Pool photo)

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Abe visits UNESCO-registered Tomioka Silk Mill

TOMIOKA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) waves as he arrives at the Tomioka Silk Mill, a newly added UNESCO World Heritage site built in 1872, on July 23, 2014. Abe visited the site, which includes timber-frame brick masonry buildings for cocoon warehouses and a silk-reeling plant, to help promote the historic factory building in Tomioka, Gunma Prefecture, to foreign tourists. (Pool photo)

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Woman killed in accident on Schindler elevator

NAGOYA, Japan - Ishikawa prefectural police officers enter an office of Swiss firm Schindler in Nagoya on Nov. 1, 2012, after a 63-year-old part-time hotel worker died the previous day after she was wedged between the floor of an ascending Schindler elevator and the frame of the building in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture.

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Japan's tallest building in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo on Oct. 23, 2012, shows a view from the 55th floor of the Abeno Harukas building in Osaka City's Abeno Ward now under construction and already the tallest structure in Japan. Railway operator Kintetsu Corp. held a ceremony the same day to mark the completion of the frame structure for the 300-meter building with 60 stories above ground and five underground.

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Japan's tallest building in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo on Oct. 23, 2012, shows the Abeno Harukas building in Osaka City's Abeno Ward now under construction and already the tallest structure in Japan. Railway operator Kintetsu Corp. held a ceremony the same day to mark the completion of the frame structure for the 300-meter building.

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Disaster-hit Kesennuma in March and June

KESENNUMA, Japan - Combined photo shows an area hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 20, 2011 (left frame), and the same area on June 3, 2011 (right frame). The floodwater has receded and a building stripped to the frame has been removed.

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Disaster-hit Onagawa in March and June

ONAGAWA, Japan - Combined photo shows an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (left frame), a week after the disaster, and the same area on June 3, 2011 (right frame). Much of the debris has been cleared away but a car swept atop the roof of a building by the tsunami remains.

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Disaster-hit Shinchi in March and June

SENDAI, Japan - Combined photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows JR Shinchi Station destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Shinchi, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top frame), a day after the disaster, and the same railway station on June 3, 2011 (bottom frame). A rolled-over train has been removed from the scene but the railway track and the station building have not been repaired.

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Debris in disaster area

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People view debris and the steel frame of a building, still left at disaster-hit Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 30, 2011. The central government assumes it will take three years for the prefectures worst hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami to finish removing massive piles of debris left by the disaster.

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1 month since disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photo taken April 10, 2011, shows the frame of a building in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, about a month after it was destroyed by a massive tsunami.

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Schindler fixes elevator's programming glitches

TOKYO, Japan - A worker from Swiss elevator maker Schindler fixes an elevator unit at Toshima fire station in Tokyo on June 17. On June 3, a Tokyo high school student was killed in a Schindler-made elevator when he was wedged between the floor of an ascending elevator and the building frame. (Pool photo)

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Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on conclusion of Afghanistan military operations

Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie (R), commander of US Central Command, testifies alongside Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley (out of frame) before the House Armed Services Committee on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan at the Rayburn House Office building on Capitol Hill on September 29, 2021 in Washington, DC, USA. Photo by Olivier Douliery/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Senate Hearings - Washington

Joshua Shapiro, Attorney General, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, holds up a Polymer80 pf940v2 ghost gun frame kit as he offers remarks during a Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Subcommittee on the Constitution hearing to examine stopping gun violence, focusing on ghost guns, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Senate Hearings - Washington

Joshua Shapiro, Attorney General, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, holds up a Polymer80 pf940v2 ghost gun frame kit as he offers remarks during a Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Subcommittee on the Constitution hearing to examine stopping gun violence, focusing on ghost guns, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Senate Hearings - Washington

This is a Polymer80 pf940v2 ghost gun frame kit, presented by Joshua Shapiro, Attorney General, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, during a Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Subcommittee on the Constitution hearing to examine stopping gun violence, focusing on ghost guns, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Prefecture given ownership of ruins symbolic of 2011 tsunami

Local officials bow in a ceremony in front of the steel frame of Minamisanriku town's disaster prevention office building, devastated by the 2011 tsunami, in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi on Dec. 22, 2015. The town, which previously decided to dismantle the frame, transferred ownership of it to the prefecture until March 10, 2031, 20 years after the disaster, during which time the town will study whether to preserve or disassemble the frame. People who lost loved ones there have sought the frame's destruction while others have argued for its preservation as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prefecture given ownership of ruins symbolic of 2011 tsunami

Jin Sato (L), the mayor of Minamisanriku town in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi, and a prefectural official participate in a ceremony on Dec. 22, 2015, in front of the steel frame of the town's disaster prevention office building, devastated by the 2011 tsunami. The town, which previously decided to dismantle the frame, transferred ownership of it to the prefecture until March 10, 2031, 20 years after the disaster, during which time the town will study whether to preserve or disassemble the frame. People who lost loved ones there have sought the frame's destruction while others have argued for its preservation as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Work continues at Japan's oldest steel-frame factory

Photo taken on June 15, 2015, shows work under way at a repair factory in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, which is considered Japan's oldest steel-frame building. The factory, part of the former state-run Yawata Steel Works, constitutes one of the sites of Japan's industrial revolution in the Meiji era (1868-1911) recommended for registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Crane at Japan's oldest steel-frame building still in use

Photo taken on June 15, 2015, shows a gantry crane still in use at a repair factory in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, which is considered the country's oldest steel-frame building. The factory, part of the former state-run Yawata Steel Works, constitutes one of the sites of Japan's industrial revolution in the Meiji era (1868-1911) recommended for registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi gov. explains plan on anti-disaster bldg. frame to families

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) speaks in front of some 40 bereaved family members of those died in or went missing from Minamisanriku town's disaster prevention office building during the 2011 tsunami in the town on April 9, 2015, about a plan to transfer the ownership of the building from the town to the prefecture until March 2031 and postpone the decision on whether to preserve it or tear it down. Town Mayor Jin Sato sits on his right. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi gov. explains plan on anti-disaster bldg. frame to families

A man visits the steel frame of Minamisanriku town's disaster prevention office building, damaged by the 2011 tsunami, in Miyagi Prefecture on April 9, 2015. Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai told bereaved family members who lost their loved ones there about a plan to transfer the ownership of the building from the town to the prefecture until March 2031 and postpone the decision on whether to preserve or disassemble it. Many people continue to visit the place where 43 people died or went missing in the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Minamisanriku mayor hopes to hear people's views on ruined bldg.

Mayor Jin Sato of Minamisanriku Town in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, says during an interview in the town on March 3, 2015, that he wants to hear the opinions of local residents on whether to keep the 2011 tsunami-engulfed steel frame of the public disaster prevention office building as a memorial to convey the importance of disaster prevention. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Frame of Minamisanriku town's anti-disaster bldg.

Photo taken on Feb. 25, 2015, shows the 2011 tsunami-damaged steel frame of Minamisanriku town's disaster prevention office building in Miyagi Prefecture. Forty three people died there in the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Schindler fixes elevator's programming glitches

TOKYO, Japan - A worker from Swiss elevator maker Schindler fixes an elevator unit at Toshima fire station in Tokyo on June 17. On June 3, a Tokyo high school student was killed in a Schindler-made elevator when he was wedged between the floor of an ascending elevator and the building frame. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Main building of Sensoji Temple

Three foreigners relax within the compounds of Sensoji. The woman with a parasol accidentally entered the photo frame because she came nearby to see the camera which was rare at the time.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐153‐0]

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Cover for Fukushima reactor

TOKYO, Japan - Handout photo shows an iron frame under construction in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 24, 2011, for a cover of the building housing the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station. The cover for the building damaged by an explosion is intended to prevent the further spread of radioactive materials. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo Electric Power Co.) (Kyodo)

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Disaster-hit Shinchi in March and June

SENDAI, Japan - Combined photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows JR Shinchi Station destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Shinchi, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top frame), a day after the disaster, and the same railway station on June 3, 2011 (bottom frame). A rolled-over train has been removed from the scene but the railway track and the station building have not been repaired. (Kyodo)

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Disaster-hit Kesennuma in March and June

KESENNUMA, Japan - Combined photo shows an area hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 20, 2011 (left frame), and the same area on June 3, 2011 (right frame). The floodwater has receded and a building stripped to the frame has been removed. (Kyodo)

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Disaster-hit Onagawa in March and June

ONAGAWA, Japan - Combined photo shows an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (left frame), a week after the disaster, and the same area on June 3, 2011 (right frame). Much of the debris has been cleared away but a car swept atop the roof of a building by the tsunami remains. (Kyodo)

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A day after tsunami in Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - (7th of 7-part series of photos) Handout photo shows a three-story town office building (C) which was stripped to its steel frame by a tsunami in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, at around 5:54 p.m. on March 12, 2011, a day after the disaster. (Photo may be used only for newspapers, TV broadcasting. Internet use is prohibited)(Photo courtesy of Shinichi Sato)(Kyodo)

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Minamisanriku hit by tsunami

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Sequential photo shows seven scenes of the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, engulfed by a tsunami, in about a 20-minute span from around 3:20 p.m. on March 11, 2011, while local officials clung to an antenna and fence on the rooftop of a three-story town office building. The top frame shows the town just before the arrival of the tsunami and the bottom frame shows the town office building which was stripped to its steel frame on the day after the disaster. (Photo may be used only for newspapers, TV broadcasting. Internet use is prohibited)(Photo courtesy of Shinichi Sato)(Kyodo)

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Debris in disaster area

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People view debris and the steel frame of a building, still left at disaster-hit Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 30, 2011. The central government assumes it will take three years for the prefectures worst hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami to finish removing massive piles of debris left by the disaster. (Kyodo)