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Eugeniu Iordachescu, a Romanian civil engineer who helped save some of Bucharest’s most emblematic churches from destruction in the 1980s by literally rolling them to safety, died on Jan. 4 at his home in Bucharest. He was 89.
[...] In the 1980s, Mr. Iordachescu was working at the Project Institute of Bucharest, a design and engineering center. Around that time Romania’s dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, set about radically redesigning the center of the city, inspired by the architecture and the style of city planning he had seen on a visit to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
[...] Mr. Iordachescu came up with the idea of digging under the buildings and putting a reinforced concrete support beneath them; the structures could then be placed on tracks. After that, engineers would sever the foundations and use hydraulic levers and mechanical pulleys to move the buildings to their new locations. Foundations would be put in place at the other end to support the relocated structures.
When he had first raised the idea with colleagues, Mr. Iordachescu was told that it wasn’t possible, that the buildings would fall over. He persuaded some engineers to try, and received verbal permission from government officials — though no one was willing to give permission in writing, in case the experiment failed.
“I find what they did extraordinary,” Viorel Speteanu, the editor of the book “Eugeniu Iordachescu: A Savior of Architectural Monuments,” said in an interview. “The ideas flew around. The movements of these buildings, both churches and civil buildings, I think this is an extraordinary achievement, and I will never stop praising him for his accomplishment.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/obituaries/eugeniu-iordachescu-dead.html
(Score: 0, Informative) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday January 15 2019, @03:37AM
This is Romania - 2nd world, not 1st world. If you'd care to get a passport and travel to open up your mind, you'd realize how ridiculously ignorant your comment sounds. Having been to most of this world, I'll put Bucharest in perspective for you:
It's getting cleaned up and becoming more european, like Germany did and like Poland is doing. Fairly clean, cozy, cheap - like a bit like Prague. They're not religious over there, they don't really have alter boys. Adults go to church when they're down and lost in life. Whore houses and strip clubs on every corner, gypsies with dirt on their face highly concentrated in out of sight areas. The churches there are not like the catholic church. Gay people get bashed and killed and everyone looks the other way. Two guys walking down the street holding hands will be beaten up in an hour.
The men who become priests are not interested in fucking little boys. They don't have the glory and excess of Rome. They are poor, they are there for god, they are too old to be interested in sex. They're there for sadness and calm peace. Child molestation happens when an old dude walks up to a gypsy mom and gives her five dollars to fuck her 5yo son.
Do try to make that trip to the post office and get on a plane. To comment on a place without ever having been there - well that just makes you the kid who shat his pants yelling that it smells.