Word: razings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Supreme Court upheld New York City's right to designate Grand Central Terminal a landmark, thus saving the beaux arts wonder from having a gargantuan 54- story modernist tower built over its waiting room. And it was a mere 20 years ago, give or take, that St. Louis razed 40 quaint blocks of riverfront warehouses; that Pasadena, Calif., tore up a fine commercial neighborhood to build a standard aluminum shopping mall; that Madison, Wis., let Burger King raze an 1850s stone house for its headquarters; that New York City tore down McKim, Mead and White's glorious Pennsylvania Station...
...there is a strong current of opinion among specialists that the whole building is hopeless and the only thing to do is raze it and start over again with materials prefabricated in the U.S. "Putting up the building has just got to be a bugger's dream," says one expert. Hal Lipset, a San Francisco private investigator who won fame in the 1960s by concealing a bug in a martini olive, agrees: "The whole building is one big microphone." If that advice is followed, however, the U.S. for many years would have to keep conducting diplomacy in the old building...
...when Schochet again requested permission to raze the complex, the Commission imposed a six-month delay on the proposed demolition, before eventually deciding that the complex "didn't warrant a designation" of landmark status, Sullivan said...
Members of the Banks St. Association and theHarvard Square Defense Fund said they are stilldissatisfied with St. Paul's plans to raze itschoir school and student center and replace themwith a single, more spacious building...
...taken on July 9, when the city commission created two historic districts encompassing the greatest concentration of art deco buildings along the south beach section, a once glitzy tourist mecca that has fallen on hard times. The ordinance requires a six-month waiting period for a permit to raze any building within the area, thereby giving preservationists time to find a way to save them...