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...Foster's unfinished project for the British Museum. When its library moved to massive new premises a mile away, it left behind one of the great English spaces: the 1857 Round Reading Room designed by Sydney Smirke, with its shallow dome, surrounded by a two-acre internal court. To demolish this masterpiece would have been unthinkable. It had to be preserved, and Foster's scheme for so doing entailed sweeping away the clutter of now obsolete bookstack buildings from around it and covering the court with a light glass-and-steel roof, thus creating Europe's largest enclosed space, which...
...this is only the start of a three-stage campaign that could last several weeks. As allied bombs continue to fall on the Yugoslav air-defense network, NATO will increasingly go after the tanks, artillery and armored vehicles the Serbs are using to demolish villages in Kosovo. In Phase Two, the allied pilots will focus on hitting the Serb forces spreading carnage inside Kosovo and staging just north of the province...
...quite different sort here in Cambridge surprisingly won a round in its bracket this week, defeating a more powerful and bigger opponent. The Swedenborg Chapel was named an historical landmark by the City Council on Tuesday night, thereby protecting it from a Somerville developer's plan to demolish the building and raise a housing development in its place. The Council's decision preserves the outside of the Chapel from being destroyed or blocked from view. The inside is not protected because the Historical Commission does not consider interiors for landmark designation (though the council has requested a re-evaluation...
...chapel's designation as a protected landmark effectively ends a Somerville real estate developer's plans to demolish the building...
...totalitarianism. "I have a goal, I charge straight at it... We must reconstitute the foundations of our life. We must return to the primal integrity..." Though Berenger appeals to him in the name of civilization and morality, Jean is unstoppable. He charges the walls, grunting almost incomprehensibly, "Let's demolish all of that! We'll be better off without it" and at last, fully a rhinoceros, he turns on his friend and tries to trample him down as well...