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Architects are already looking beyond COVID-19 to imagine the office of 2025 and beyond — an office that will keep us safe on the job, whatever pandemic virus strikes next.

It's not clear why the Philadelphia man left the building this way, descending more than a dozen floors in about three minutes.

The Plasco building, Iran's oldest high-rise, caught fire Thursday morning. As firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze, the 17-story structure crumbled on top of them.

Dubai's fireworks display for New Year's Eve continued as planned, even as the blaze raged a short distance away.