During the course of our fieldwork, entire portions of the housing area were destroyed and moved due to expanding construction on the site.
Miami's Overtown neighborhood was devastated – churches demolished, commercial districts destroyed and residential areas literally severed from each other – by the construction of Interstate 95 [ 50].
Lives destroyed, and why?
Dimiter Georgiev, an ornithologist from nearby Varna, said the habitats of numerous species would be "directly disturbed and destroyed by this construction", including those of otters, butterflies, woodpeckers, honey buzzards, lesser spotted eagles and red-backed shrikes.
Mr. Harley said the state had worked with preservation and advisory groups to maintain the historic character of the parkway and replant any vegetation destroyed during construction.
Originally there were 168 markers, but some sank into the ground and were lost or were destroyed by construction or stolen.
In 1928 the Springfield Weather Bureau moved temporarily to the Abe Lincoln Hotel and the old office was subsequently destroyed for construction of a new federal courthouse.
As plans for an expansion of US Route 17 a thoroughfare that bisects South Carolina's 'lowcountry' progressed, Dudik turned a lovingly prudent lens on historic homes and ethereal landscapes that would be destroyed by construction, as well as the people who inhabit them.
"A lot of them [the stone lines] are being destroyed by construction," said Stanish, explaining that modern-day power and gas lines are being built in the area, jeopardizing the ancient stone lines that have stood for well over a millennia.
In 2012 an image of a parachuting rat on a Greville Street shop was destroyed by construction workers.
