Quotes About Demolition

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.

People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.

In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

I didn't like The Astrodome or any of the Astro-Turf fields. Probably my worst ballpark was The Met in Minnesota; I hated that place. I was so glad when they tore that place down, you have no idea.

One A.F.S. man wrote bluntly: 'Everybody loots . . . The A.R.P. Wardens, Demolition Men . . . the Police.

You take enough blasting gelatin and wrap the foundation columns of anything, you can topple any building in the world. You have to tamp it good and tight with sandbags so the blast goes against the column and not out into the parking garage around the column. This how-to stuff isn't in any history book.

On January 24, 1998, a century-old tenement building still in use and located at 172 Stanton Street was demolished by the City of New York

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani entered the building without a hard hat at approximately eleven AM, but ultimately residents were not allowed to return before demolition commenced eight hours later.

There was, however, a real "Honey the cat." Honey was one of two cats and a parrot living in the building on the day it was demolished, whose owners were not allowed to retrieve them. Neither the cats nor the parrot were ever seen again.

building and most of the city block were destroyed

Zoning for diversity must be thought of differently from the usual zoning for conformity, but like all zoning it is suppressive. One form of zoning for diversity is already familiar in certain city districts: controls against demolition of historically valuable buildings.

To demolish this basilica, the king said, is to pretend our history never happened – an easy way to allow ourselves to move happily forward, telling ourselves that another 'Franco' could never happen. But of course it could happen, and it will happen if we are not vigilant. - Father of Prince Julian

There is no one quite like Trump for forensically demolishing the opposition.

Una cosa era demoler media docena de casas y echar a las familias que vivían en ellas, y otra muy diferente privar a diez leones, cuatro jirafas, un rinoceronte y una docena de avestruces de su único medio de vida. La opinión pública británica jamás consentiría la menor crueldad contra unos animalitos.

I have seen this place so many times in my night terrors that, even half-demolished, I cannot help but feel like I am in another awful dream.

Arthur … And now it was all in ruins

Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.

Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.

The echo of a great love is like the echo of a huge dog's barking in an empty Jerusalem house marked for demolition.

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

After the demolition began, the late Pramod Mahajan took Advani to a guest house. Later Mahajan told me that Advani was shattered and near tears. According to Mahajan, he said, 'They have destroyed my movement.

Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.