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Inside the statue, most of the angles are eccentric, which made the whole job appealing and difficult for the engineers. The copper skin had been fastened to the superstructure by means of more than 1,800 iron armature bars, all different shapes and sizes. At the rate of just twelve a day, the armatures have been replaced by individually forged steel bars. The exterior, blemished by acid rain and 100-year accretions of bird excrement, was bathed and scrubbed. Only two bits of grafting were necessary: the tip of the nose and some hair curls are new copper...
...firm of Swanke Hayden Connell.) Appropriately, twelve French artisans were imported to fashion a new torch. They needed a year to make a plywood mold, take a plaster cast of the wooden form, make a metal mold over which reinforcing concrete was poured, and finally fashion the repousse copper flame itself--then cover it in nearly a pound of 24-karat gold leaf...
From a visitor's point of view, the greatest change involves the 192-step walk up to the top. The old enclosing stair tower was replaced by a more open spiral, and the statue's copper interior has been illuminated. As a result, the upward passage through the dramatic, Gaudian space is now at least half the fun, intriguing and slightly mysterious...
...architecturally as it is emotionally. For a place not really so old (construction lasted from 1890 to 1935 off and on) and built for quick-and- dirty bureaucratic use, much of the compound is astonishingly lovely. The basic style is French Renaissance revival; the materials are brick, limestone and copper. The hospital, on the south side of the ferry slip, is a particularly pretty beaux-arts jewel...
...were in Lima for a congress of the Socialist International, an organization of socialist and social-democratic parties. The gathering was held in Peru to recognize efforts by Garcia's center-left government to stabilize the country's economy, which has been crippled by the falling prices of oil, copper and other major exports...