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Monument Mori

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Lynn Becker
11 June 2005 - 9:00am

Rethinking death and the city.

Architect John Ronan proposes to transform Chicago's abandoned 2,500,000 square-foot post office into the largest municipal mausoleum on the face of the earth. Is it grand vision or high theater? And is the modern civic psyche too fragile to tolerate such a presence?.

Full Story: If it looks like a mausoleum
Source: Repeat, June 10, 2005
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