Word: demolishments
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...20th century has been crueler to Berlin than to most any other major city in the world. In architecture as in politics, Berlin is a birthplace of modernism -- the kind of avenging romantic modernism that was determined to demolish the past and rebuild the future from scratch. And so again and again for a half-century after World War I, the city was razed wholesale for the sake of ferocious social ideas: first, the Utopian housing tracts of the 1920s; then the Nazis' megalomaniacal neoclassicism in the '30s; the devastating Allied bombing raids in the '40s; the redoubled, misguided urban...
...Agency will request from Congress to replace the compromised communications facilities and pursue other corrective measures. Meanwhile, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence recommended by a 15-to-0 vote to tear down the bug-riddled chancery at the new U.S. embassy in Moscow. Said Committee Chairman David Boren: "Demolish that building while we still can." Building a new one would cost an estimated $23 million more...
...Commission first voted to let the building's owner, Jay Schochet, demolish the buildings. Schochet did not destroy the buildings then, perhaps because "the interest rates were too high to make the project work," Sullivan said...
...university has not moved the house because it has no land on which to put them, said Ancelin Lynch, associated director of university relations. If the houses are not sold, the university will demolish them...
...decision endorsed developer Louis DiGiovanni's plans to demolish the building that houses the Picadilly Filly and Ha'Penny bars, as well as two restaurants, the Blue Parrot and Vincent's. The Commission declared the frame house at 119 Mt. Auburn St. "historically significant" as a former Harvard dormitory...