Moving an 11,000-Ton Telephone Exchange Without Suspending Its Operations (opens in new tab)

(archdaily.com)

10 pointsthebetatester3y ago5 comments

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I've heard this incredible and awesome story a few times, but the detail I noticed this tim was that the architect responsible was Kurt Vonnegut, but sadly not that Kurt Vonnegut, who was 8 at the time.

andscoop3y ago

It was actually his father! He was a relatively well known architect in the Indianapolis area at that time.

GauntletWizard3y ago

Whaaaat! That's very cool. I am surprised any article could mention Kurt Sr. without mentioning his son, if only as trivia.

LorenPechtel3y ago

Wow! I'm amazed they could maintain all the utilities while moving it.

nivertech3y ago

I guess Erlang/OTP helped a lot here;)

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