Architectural Recycling, Then and Now

Reblogged from EYE ON DESIGN by Dan Gregory:

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Flights of the Phoenix

Earth Day is April 22, so let's talk recycling. It's not a new idea: remember the Romans! In 10 B. C. Emperor Augustus removed the obelisk from the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis in Egypt and placed it in the Circus Maximus; then in 1589 Pope Sixtus V had it erected in the Piazza del Popolo topped with a cross.

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