{"id":128188,"date":"2015-09-30T00:06:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T06:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/sometimes-destroying-things-is-as-elegant-is-building-them.html"},"modified":"2015-11-22T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T18:07:03","slug":"sometimes-destroying-things-is-as-elegant-is-building-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/sometimes-destroying-things-is-as-elegant-is-building-them.html","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes destroying things is as elegant is building them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often find the demolition of structures to be equal parts fascinating (deconstruction in the truest sense) and depressing (thinking of the effort that went into building and using the locale in the first place). But controlled demolition of this sort is so artistic that it just becomes &#8230; fascinating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/watch-the-spectacular-demolition-of-a-power-stations-hu-1733340923'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/XdPrOGGpBVS9Xs9asunFhRoap8xPrWP0wXx3OHk0sV69JW_Sc21cssoOyRlMExip6xd77ysusyBpmTHN6I1iMT3cMd5sEykPvOI4TgpCS4jdx803I9lkFEEA6PNmqNV2uJdtkYqQuEyliiaUsM-N5SCgypT6L15WrXirLzNOei5QxRCP3UX2MoYnJuperQlClxiaab1k-Q=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/watch-the-spectacular-demolition-of-a-power-stations-hu-1733340923'>Watch the Spectacular Demolition of a Power Station&#8217;s Huge Chimneys<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe controlled demolition of old buildings is always a fun thing to watch, especially when demolition experts do extremely accurate math in order to bring down huge structures. Just like in the case of the coal-fired Cockenzie power station in East Lothian, Scotland.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/c4EkqPEwzcy'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often find the demolition of structures to be equal parts fascinating (deconstruction in the truest sense) and depressing (thinking of the effort that went into building and using the locale in the first place). But controlled demolition of this sort is so artistic that it just becomes &#8230; fascinating. Watch the Spectacular Demolition of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/sometimes-destroying-things-is-as-elegant-is-building-them.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sometimes destroying things is as elegant is building them&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,739],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-architecture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43608,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/demolition-for-the-goose-should-be-demolition-for-the-gander.html","url_meta":{"origin":128188,"position":0},"title":"Demolition for the goose should be demolition for the gander","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Jul-14 12:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Where judicial actions are applied unevenly, by intent, it is by definition injustice.\ufeff Should Israel Destroy the Homes of the Jewish Suspects Accused of Murdering a Palestinian? 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