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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 12, 2016 15:04:15 GMT -5
I remember admiring this building back when I was traveling to Provo on a weekly basis. Tragedy struck a few years ago when the building all but burned to the ground.  The first I knew of the fire was when I stumbled onto the amazing images of the entire shell up on stilts as they restored it:  The restoration is now complete, and it looks marvelous. The new building should be far more durable than the old. Not only did they strip away the two inner layers (of five total) of brick from the shell and replaced them with reinforced concrete, the interior is now all steel. There is something I find incredibly hopeful in all this. |
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Post by Marshall on Jan 12, 2016 15:46:33 GMT -5
That is bizarre. TheY obviously put a new foundation and basement under it too. I expect it cost 2 or 3 times what a tear down and new building would cost.
Your tax dollars at work.
(I'm not saying I'm against doing this kind of thing. It's just a BIG DEAL ! )
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 16:06:22 GMT -5
It beats tearing it down and putting up something in functional modern otherwise known as fugly.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 12, 2016 16:09:17 GMT -5
Your tax dollars at work. I wonder about that. My assumption is that the LDS Church picked up the tab, but they may have gotten some state/federal "historic preservation" cheese in the deal as well. |
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Post by Marshall on Jan 12, 2016 17:54:02 GMT -5
Your tax dollars at work. I wonder about that. My assumption is that the LDS Church picked up the tab, but they may have gotten some state/federal "historic preservation" cheese in the deal as well. OK. I didn't watch the vid. I was thinking it was a public building. But as a church structure it shouldn't be public money. |
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Post by Marshall on Jan 12, 2016 18:06:46 GMT -5
I watched most of the vid now. A spectacular undertaking. Those Mormons are something.
Quite an engineering feat. Amazing they didn't lose any of the walls in the process. Very neat system they came up with that allowed the reinforcement of the old walls and addition of reinforced concrete liner walls, that are the real structural walls now. The old brick is just a veneer now. That allowed them to jack up the walls using the new concrete structure so they could undercut it to redo the foundation. Very, very, very expensive system.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 12, 2016 18:11:32 GMT -5
I'm sure there will be articles published in engineering/architecture/building journals on this one. Seeing that shell up on stilts is just awe inspiring. Audacious is the word that comes to mind.
I'm guessing they installed the inner, reinforced lining first, and then excavated the foundation and installed the stilts. I'm further guessing that the scaffolding that held it up ended up embedded inside the final foundation.
This whole project is just off the charts.
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Post by RickW on Jan 12, 2016 22:20:56 GMT -5
Gorgeous. Sad what happened to it. But it should last another few centuries now.
I'm pretty sure the LDS has the cash to do the job.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 12, 2016 22:43:35 GMT -5
Well, that puts an Amish barn raising to shame.
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