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Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House – A Plan To Move Or Raise It

VISUAL Posted: June 11, 2014 11:05 am

“After commissioning several technical surveys, the trust has posted a feasibility study by structural engineering firm Robert Silman Associates that assesses three possible solutions to the ever-worsening threat of floods: permanently elevating the house by putting a nine-foot hill underneath it, relocating it to higher ground on the site, or building the aforementioned hydraulic lift, which would use a set of four steel trusses to raise the house by nine feet when needed.”

VISUAL Published: 06.11.14

Read the story in Chicago Reader Published: 06.11.14

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