Craftsmen re-create crumbling multi-story sculpture in midtown
BY TIM BRYANT • tbryant@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8206 STLtoday.com | Posted: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:00 am |
For years, motorists streaming west on Interstate 64 watched the slow disintegration of a huge sculpture carved into the brick facade of the Council Tower in midtown St. Louis.
Bricks began falling off the east side the building in 2007. Decay of the bricks' anchors was so severe that workers later had to remove the entire facade, exposing the concrete beneath.
Now, craftsmen are nearly done with a painstaking recreation of the sculpture on the building at Interstate 64 and Forest Park Avenue west of downtown. The work is part of a $40 million renovation of the low-income senior housing facility.
Where more than 40 years ago workers used hammers and chisels, craftsmen now are employing the latest battery-powered grinders and drills to replicate the 260-foot sculpture.
link: http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ ... f6878.html
BY TIM BRYANT • tbryant@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8206 STLtoday.com | Posted: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:00 am |
For years, motorists streaming west on Interstate 64 watched the slow disintegration of a huge sculpture carved into the brick facade of the Council Tower in midtown St. Louis.
Bricks began falling off the east side the building in 2007. Decay of the bricks' anchors was so severe that workers later had to remove the entire facade, exposing the concrete beneath.
Now, craftsmen are nearly done with a painstaking recreation of the sculpture on the building at Interstate 64 and Forest Park Avenue west of downtown. The work is part of a $40 million renovation of the low-income senior housing facility.
Where more than 40 years ago workers used hammers and chisels, craftsmen now are employing the latest battery-powered grinders and drills to replicate the 260-foot sculpture.
link: http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ ... f6878.html
