BUILDINGS THAT LAST
Across the street from my hotel in Florence, Italy, they were tearing down a block of old buildings to widen the square in front of the new railroad station, writes a visitor recently in Italyt This demolition work was done very carefully. Every stone was taken out whole and cleaned. Concrete castings are not broken up, hut are'preserved. When I inquired of the foreman, about the reasons for ajl thiß care he said: "This material is as good as new; it is only 300 years old." With structures of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries still in active use for -public and business purposes, Florence emphasises the axiom that buildings should be put up to last.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22670, 6 March 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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118BUILDINGS THAT LAST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22670, 6 March 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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