The criticism has spread across the world’s architectural community since KCS recently razed — for safety concerns, the company says — what some considered a marvel of modern architecture.

The building that folks in Baton Rouge called “the Bucky Dome.”

“It was a shock to everyone,” says Elizabeth Thompson, executive director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute in New York. “It’s just a real loss to the architectural community.”

- bill 1-06-2008 1:57 pm




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