Posts Tagged ‘bldgblog’

IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA

March 24, 2008

We may not have any waves and our water may be filled with pharmaceuticals, but it could always be worse. Toxic, even.
So goes Geoff Manaugh on the all-knowing BLDGBLOG  with a post on how the U.S. military (and plenty of other countries, too) dumped tons of chemical weapons into the ocean starting way back in [...]

OUTLAW RESTORATEURS FIX WHAT THE CITY WON’T

November 30, 2007

Preservational-minded Ballardian outlaws illegally restart historic stopped clock in Paris’ iconic Pantheon:
For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon’s unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid “illegal restorers” set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building’s famous dome.

 

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