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Why does it take 85k to remove it from the wall? I'm pretty sure it doesn't cost that much. There is some ridiculous government inefficiency or embezzling happe
by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Why does it take 85k to remove it from the wall? I'm pretty sure it doesn't cost that much. There is some ridiculous government inefficiency or embezzling happening or some kind of learned helplessness or malicious compliance. Just go, wash it off and done.
- artisinal 2mo agoThis isn’t an American building where you buy a couple of two-by-fours and some plastic siding from Home Depot. It’s a historical building made out of stone.
- dgellow 2mo agoYou think a stone building is hard to clean with a Kärcher?
- tptacek 2mo agoNot without damaging the masonry. It wouldn't matter at all if it were a standard municipal building, but this building is protected. If Banksy stenciled another My Chemical Romance poster on the Frank Lloyd Wright Unity Temple in Oak Park, you'd get a flavor for how complicated the discussion would be.
- dgellow 2mo agoI have no idea what that temple is or which oak park you mean but I will take your words for it
- tptacek 2mo agoIt's one of the most famous Frank Lloyd Wright buildings (and architecturally one of his most important, and, apropos this story, his building that is most like the RCJ.)
- dgellow 2mo agoDamn, the guy was productive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright_works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright_wor... Your comment makes me realize I know nothing about US architecture
- zdragnar 2mo agoThe job requires methods more akin to restoring a painting after a knobhead splashes it with ketchup than a pressure washer, as it is a historically preserved building.
- ForOldHack 2mo agoRediculous government ineffiency is multiple redundancies. Just government. They could replace it with another commissioned Banksy for half of that.
- ryandrake 2mo ago$84,500 in the pockets of the government's favorite contracting companies. $500 to the guy who pressure washes it off the side of the building
- tptacek 2mo agoThe article discusses this. They attempted to wash it off the building and failed.
- bonoboTP 2mo agoScrape it off. Lose a millimeter of the stone. Not the end of the world. These are self inflicted bullshit costs that cripple the government. Use common sense. If it's legally impossible, then update the laws to be sane.