[mxuribe]

The whole concept is bonkers! By this i mean that i can not imagine many officials would even have the will to even try something so big and audacious nowadays. Also, my favorite note in the wikipedia entry (besides the whole article being awesome!), is this one: "Many of the city's old wooden buildings were considered not worth raising, so instead the owners of these wooden buildings had them either demolished or else placed on rollers and moved to the outskirts of Chicago. Business activities in such buildings continued, as they were being moved." Just crazy!

[dredmorbius]

In 1930, the e Indiana Bell Telephone Company rotated an 11,000 ton functioning telephone exchange it had acquired merging with Central Union Telephone Company, whilst work continued inside, and with water, sewerage, gas, and electricity service continuing uninterrupted, 90 degrees.

The work was performed by the architectural firm of Vonnegut, Bohn & Mueller, co-founded by Bernard Vonnegut, father of the noted author Kurt.

<https://www.archdaily.com/973183/the-building-that-moved-how...>

[mxuribe]

That's mindbogglingly insane!

[stevekemp]

There are some crazy things, but in terms of projects I've always thought that the time Sweden changed which side of the road traffic drove on has got to be up there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H

[mxuribe]

At a glance, changing which side of the road to drive on seems not so big and complex...maybe its jarring, but it didn't sound so big, complex, and audacious...But then upon further thought, there are tons of big and not-so-big considerations - especially the many, many little things that might not be obvious until things were actually implemented - that would need to be addressed...so, yeah, agreed, that change in Sweden was a big doozy of a societal change! Thanks for sharing! :-)

[Kon-Peki]

> I can not imagine many officials would even have the will to even try something so big and audacious nowadays.

How about renaming 567 streets on a single Friday?

https://chicagology.com/chicagostreets/streetnamechanges/

[mxuribe]

Wow! Even the renaming of streets - which yes, would need physical work to swap out the physical street signs - seems to far fetched to be done nowadays! But, that's a pretty cool factoid; thanks for sharing!