demolition

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“Those aren’t bombs,” he said, “and certainly not guns. That’s demolition work. Germans. They’re probably blowing up bridges. It means they expect an attack but not that it’s here. It might not come for weeks.”

From Literature

It is thought the demolition work could take several days.

From BBC

Raymond Barlow, from the council's building standards team, said it was not possible for the council to say exactly which aspects of the building could be saved, nor how long the demolition will take.

From BBC

The council has not yet announced when the demolition will be carried out.

From BBC

Claverly, a professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, recently spoke to Salon about the problem of demolition in its current form, and the potential for a model with more community input.

From Salon