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Rotating the Indiana Bell Building (2014)
- pintxo 7y ago> Gas, electric heat, water and sewage were were maintained to the building all during the move. The 600 workers entered and left the traveling structure using a sheltered passageway that moved with the building. Sounds like a risky undertaking in case anything goes wrong: people in the building + a live gas line.
- wolfgang42 7y agoSimilarly, a telephone exchange in Mexico that was moved while in operation: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/managed-retreat/2/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/managed-retreat/2/ (48 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411032 )
- jonas21 7y agoIn case anyone else was wondering, the architect who proposed rotating the building, Kurt Vonnegut Sr., was indeed the father of the writer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut_Sr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut_Sr.
- benj111 7y agoSeems to have been a busy family. The 'other' brother/son was a scientist that discovered silver iodide cloud seeding. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Vonnegut https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Vonnegut
- tenderfault 7y agomore information (additional pictures included): http://www.paul-f.com/ibmove.html http://www.paul-f.com/ibmove.html