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Pruitt-Igoe comes down
March 16, 1972
St. Louis, Missouri
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Thirty-three modernist towers, praised on completion and dynamited on television seventeen years later. The architecture got the blame, but the project was built with no maintenance budget in a city losing population fast. One critic dated the death of modern architecture to the afternoon it fell.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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