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Heads On Parade

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Heidi Schallberg
13 September 2004 - 6:00am

Ceramic heads guard the roofline of an historic apartment building off of Kansas City's Country Club Plaza shopping district, but the city's Landmarks Commission now says the heavy heads must come down.

It took a crane to get each art student's sculpted head to the roof of Don Anderson's Tudor-style apartment building, where the sculptures are held in place with Liquid Nails. In spite of the sculptures being a local landmark, Kansas City's Landmarks Commission insists the heads must be removed from the building.

Full Story: Heads go up, and official thumbs go down
Source: The Kansas City Star, September 11, 2004
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