At around 8 a.m. Tuesday, artist Brian Goggin rode a boom lift two floors up from Sixth Street, pulled a yellow easy chair out a window of the Hugo Hotel, and the deconstruction of "Defenestration" ...

Brian Goggin sometimes relaxes with a book on his blue couch, which wouldn't be remarkable except that the couch hangs off the edge of the rooftop of the abandoned Hugo Hotel high above San ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- This is the last weekend to take in a San Francisco landmark. For 17 years, furniture has crawled out of the vacant Hugo Hotel at Sixth and Howard. On Tuesday it will come down.

It's a word you probably don't use all that often, so let's break it down. It's a noun and according to Merriam-Webster it means: "a throwing of a person or thing out of a window." If you live in the ...

Do we need a word for doing it in reverse? By John Hodgman David writes: My friend Tim and I watch a lot of action films. We agree on the definition of defenestration, but can’t agree on what ...

A famous act of defenestration in the classical music world involves the renowned French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Berlioz was sent to medical school in Paris at the behest of his physician ...