On October 5th, architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron unveiled their design for the restoration of the Park Avenue Armory. Their concept involves the excavation of the layers of paint, plaster and wallpaper which have built up since 1881– to quote Herzog, to \u201cexplore the very act of transformation, the evolution of an important structure as it is seen and used and worn down by one generation after another\u201d. The $200 million restoration is in progress and will not be completed until 2015. One interesting fact about the project that was published in The New York Times on October 6th, is that 280,000 Q-tips were used in the cleaning of one of the rooms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On October 5th, architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron unveiled their design for the restoration of the Park Avenue Armory. Their concept involves the excavation of the layers of paint, plaster and wallpaper which have built up since 1881– to quote Herzog, to \u201cexplore the very act of transformation, the evolution of an important … Continue reading “So many Q-tips”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}