Rotating the Indiana Bell Building (2014)

[lelf]

https://eu.indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/2014/01/07/indiana-bell/4354705/

[jonas21]

In case anyone else was wondering, the architect who proposed rotating the building, Kurt Vonnegut Sr., was indeed the father of the writer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut_Sr.

[benj111 → jonas21]

Seems to have been a busy family.

The 'other' brother/son was a scientist that discovered silver iodide cloud seeding.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Vonnegut

[wolfgang42]

Similarly, a telephone exchange in Mexico that was moved while in operation: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/managed-retreat/2/ (48 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411032 )

[pintxo]

> Gas, electric heat, water and sewage were were maintained to the building all during the move. The 600 workers entered and left the traveling structure using a sheltered passageway that moved with the building.

Sounds like a risky undertaking in case anything goes wrong: people in the building + a live gas line.

[tenderfault]

more information (additional pictures included): http://www.paul-f.com/ibmove.html