One building is simply too dangerous to enter and may have to be torn down.

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Other residents say the local education bureau knew the school was dangerous and had allocated money for it to be torn down and rebuilt.

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"The airport is too expensive, too small and too much behind time, " said aviation expert Dieter Faulenbach da Costa, who recently caused a stir when he proposed that the airport ought to be torn down.

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Mr Fidler, who farms a herd of Sussex beef cattle on 250 acres of land in the village of Salfords, has been fighting Reigate and Banstead original council's enforcement notices, requiring the home to be torn down, since 2008.

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It'll have to be torn down.

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"We are always concerned when older and more or less intact buildings are getting torn down to be replaced with something new on a block that has a lot of character, " said Tara Kelly, the executive director of Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts.

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Many areas have already gone and many more will be torn down, their residents moved to blocks on the edge of town.

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Brunelleschi soon made a miraculous recovery, bolting up to the construction site, where he proclaimed Ghiberti's work incompetent and demanded that it be torn down.

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