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Moving an 11,000-Ton Telephone Exchange Without Suspending Its Operations (archdaily.com)
10 points by thebetatester on Nov 27, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


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.


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


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


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


I guess Erlang/OTP helped a lot here;)




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