John McCormack, who owns several nearby properties and is an expert on historical buildings, said knocking down older buildings set a dangerous precedent.
The 10-part series, called Restoration, will focus on 30 historical buildings around the UK and viewers will be asked to vote on which one should be restored.
For decades the city lived on its past glory, as many of its historical buildings deteriorated and organized crime took over the enormous slums, or favelas, that cover Rio's many slopes with mostly unplanned and unlicensed homes.
Those who fear that the city's historical buildings are in danger of being literally overshadowed by modern monoliths might take comfort in the global economic crisis, which has caused some of Moscow's most ambitious new developments, including Norman Foster's 600 meter-high Russia Tower and 450 meter Crystal Island building, to be put on hold.
The final stage of a review into the historical importance of buildings and places in Jersey has begun.
Most notably, they restored old buildings including 40 historical sites in Southern Indiana.
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Pittsburgh is an exceptionally appealing contrast of attractive modern buildings in a rich historical setting.
Learn about the history of the island at the Sanibel Historical Village and Museum where seven buildings have been restored to their original condition to help tell the stories of the Calusa, the early Spanish and the pioneer families who farmed here in the 1800s.
On a recent day, hard-hat construction workers were inspecting the Art Deco and Belle Epoque buildings, which are classified as historical monuments.
That led to 1970s postmodernism, less a period of creative vitality than of confusing signals and flawed buildings, a half-understood historical recall supposedly leavened with irony in the way past and present were combined.
Many of them question whether cultural phenomena, including destruction layers, cultural-piercing features (man-made structures displaced by surface rupturing, e.g. viaducts), structural damage to buildings, indications of repairs, historical accounts and myths can be reliably used as earthquake indicators.
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The River Hart flows through the rural area which has 1, 000 buildings listed as being of special architectural or historical interest and more than 30 conservation areas.
The fire caused an explosion that damaged more than 1, 000 buildings, according to the website of the Texas Historical Association.
Buildings aside, Cinque Terre's most unique historical feature is the steeply terraced cliffs bisected by a complicated system of fields and gardens that has been shaped over the course of nearly two millennia.
Her "Parallel Lines" (1977), a series of photographs Ms. Maurer and a friend took of each other as they raced around balconies on face-to-face buildings, will likely remain nothing more than a historical footnote.
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