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Vieux Bois : Demolition Saint-Calixte
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Lee Harveys "Babylon"/"Demolition Man" : Thomas House, Dublin, 28/03/2014
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Demolition on Woonsocket home
Demolition on a burned triple decker home in Woonsocket as part of the mayor #39;s plan to get rid of blight in the city.

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MOSCOW, April 9 (UPI) -- Architectural preservationists around the world await the fate of an iconic Moscow radio tower known as the Shukhov Tower, built in 1922 and facing demolition.

Formally known as the Shabolovka Tower but called after its designer, Vladimir Shukhov, the tower is a delicate-looking, 160-meter (525 feet) lattice-framed structure built at a time when radio ruled the media of communism and the new Soviet Union.

The tower has been declared unsafe, and efforts to demolish it are underway, but preservationists have written to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking that it be preserved.

It is a transcendent structure. The sensation of standing underneath it is so uplifting, said Richard Pare, writer of an open letter to Putin signed by a number of renowned architects.

Of its historical significance, Pare added, Communication and radio was the new thing (when the tower was erected), the latest technology at the time. Shukhovs tower was spreading the word of the new age.

The structure, nicknamed the Eiffel Tower of the East, is considered a historical monument to the optimism of post-revolutionary Russia and an example of Constructivism, an ethos in which engineering and industrial design displayed social and artistic ideas. It was originally designed to be 350 meters (1,148 feet) high, which would have made it the worlds tallest structure at the time, but a shortage of steel prevented the plan.

Campaigners to keep the tower standing await an official decision from Russias State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KGO) -- For the first time on Tuesday drivers on the new Bay Bridge may have noticed a change. A large section of the old eastern span is now gone. ABC7 News took a tour of the construction site.

We're about to see the demolition of the old cantilever bridge take a more rapid pace. Over the past year, Caltrans has been doing a lot of preparation for this demolition and during that time, nobody really noticed much until this week.

From their hot dog stand on Treasure Island, Angel Arredondo and his father are noticing a 50-foot gap in the old cantilever section of the Bay Bridge.

Crews are now removing the 30,000-pound beams and with them, the tension that held the bridge together.

"If you cut that in the middle like we did, without any prep, it would just drop in the water," said Andrew Gordon, a Caltrans spokesperson.

So Caltrans installed hydraulic jacks that are pulling the load from the two halves away from each other so it doesn't collapse.

"The engineers have been looking exactly how this bridge was built nearly 80 years ago and they're pretty much taking it apart in the exact opposite order," said Gordon.

As they were grinding away the surface of the upper deck, construction workers discovered something that had long been forgotten. From an aerial shot, you can see how they uncovered white square tiles that were used to separate the lanes more than 80 years ago.

Each day, the gap will get wider and Caltrans is asking drivers not to slow down to look.

In about two years and $300 million later, the old bay bridge will be no more.

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Syracuse, N.Y. COR Development Co. today began demolishing a former canal maintenance building at the Syracuse Inner Harbor, kicking off the start of $350 million redevelopment that is to turn the harbor into a residential and commercial attraction.

COR originally intended to redevelop the maintenance building as a community boathouse. However, the company said the building was deteriorated and determined by engineers to be "structurally unsound." The demolition will take about two weeks.

The company said it is looking into several alternative uses for the site and for alternatives for public docking and a community boat launch.

The building formerly was used by the state Canal Corp. to repair its fleet of canal boats. The Inner Harbor, located off Solar Street between Franklin Square and the Destiny USA shopping mall, was once a state Barge Canal terminal.

The state gave the land surrounding the harbor to the city of Syracuse. The city agreed in 2012 to sell the land to Fayetteville-based COR for a redevelopment that will include a hotel, apartments, retail shops and commercial buildings.

COR said it is seeking final approvals for a 130-room Aloft Hotel on the southern end of the harbor and for the construction of new city streets and public infrastructure to prepare the western shore for development. Construction of the hotel is scheduled to start in June.

COR plans to move a former freight house on the eastern shore of the harbor to different location along the shore.

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The demolition of the building at 27 Governor Street has gotten the backing of the Architectural Advisory Committee, which sent a recommendation to the Planning and Zoning Commission, the agency that would have authority over the project.

The demolition is proposed in connection with the Visiting Nurse Associations plans to build a headquarters on the property, just uphill from the town parking lot near the Boys & Girls Club.

Acting as the Village District Consultant, the architecture committee gave architect Peter Coffins plans a 5-0 favorable vote on a pre-application review on March 25.

Although this is a 19th-Century building, it was determined by the committee that all the Victorian-era trim and porches have been completely stripped from the building, and the interior has been gutted over the years, committee chairman John Kinnear wrote. There are no architectural or historic reasons to preserve the building or retain it as the core of a very large addition. The committee agrees that a new building on this site is in the best interest of the village.

Town Planner Betty Brosius said the demolition of the building would eventually be considered by the Planning and Zoning Commission acting as the Village District Commission.

It would probably be presented for public comment as part of the same as yet unscheduled public hearing that will consider the special permit application to build a new RVNA building, she said.

Ms. Brosius emphasized that the Village District Consultants agreement with the demolition plans is only a recommendation and the decision would be up to the commission.

This was only an informal review, she said.

The RVNA will have to file a special permit application and a Village District Application, and then the Planning and Zoning Commission will make decisions on both of those, when the time comes, she said.

That wont be for a month or so after the applications are submitted for review, she added.

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