Heavy Reading

This book is no page turner. In fact, the leaves of the 2,000-pound bronze tome on display at Buffalo Niagara International Airport move only once a week, when Frank Fantauzzi, an associate professor of architecture at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Anthony Dong, his former student, arrive at the terminal to turn them. Each of the 12 pages weighs 300 pounds.

The book, Building Buffalo, traces the architectural history of the city using about 50 bas-relief castings of

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