I think if you read the article you'll find the answers to your queries. I doubt if it will ever to totally righted. ;)
The street vendors would revolt!
I think if you read the article you'll find the answers to your queries. I doubt if it will ever to totally righted. ;)
The street vendors would revolt!
Thanks for that pic - that is the funniest thing I’ve seen/read all week!
‘There were 14 egos at work and little common ground between people from such different disciplines,’ says Burland. ‘As opposed to rational, British-style discussion, meetings were emotional, with polemical speeches in Italian for hours on end. Often my translators struggled to keep up and I hadn’t a clue what was going on.’Broadly speaking, the structural engineers disagreed with the geotechnical engineers over whether the key lay in the tower itself or in the earth beneath it, while both were at odds with the art historians, who feared intervention of any kind and demanded the belfry’s ‘character and integrity’ be observed. A permanent prop, for instance, was a definite no-no.
‘It was a constant impasse. I often doubted we’d ever reach a resolution,’ recalls Burland, one of only two non-Italians on the committee. The other, an American geotechnical engineer, died of a heart attack in 1996, partly brought on by the stresses of working in Pisa.
Daffy, I must disagree that this article has *eyes glazing over* content. It is both informative and funny. Everyone should read the whole article. Members of this secret committee should receive Italy's highest honor for working diligently for more than 10 years to solve this problem. Read the article.