With funding from the Dia Art Foundation, Judd purchased them in 1979 and began his own restoration, replacing the garage doors that enclosed the buildings’ two long sides with a series of continuous windows.
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Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
19 Aug. 2026
Archimedes’ screw Traditionally associated with Archimedes and dated to around the third century BCE, this machine moves water through a rotating helical surface enclosed inside a cylinder.
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Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Aug. 2026
But Oliver said the contractors installed the grinder pump a month ago with its own power source encased in a locked box and didn’t provide her with a key.
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Christin Lazerus,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Aug. 2026
With six bedrooms and six full bathrooms spread across more than 9,000 square feet, the home’s three distinct structures are connected by bridges and wrapped in curved glass encased in black steel frames.
This lack of choice pushed some buyers toward used cars to better fit their budgets.
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Beth Livesay,
AJC.com,
21 Aug. 2026
The track itself required creative thinking — finding run-off areas with limited space, figuring out where to create a paddock to fit the trucks that haul in cars and equipment.
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