Dive Summary:

• San Antonio, Texas, wanted both a new performing arts facility and its distinctive, domed downtown auditorium.
• The solution the city arrived at was to take apart the Municipal Auditorium, built 90 years ago, and reuse much of its exterior as the home for a new Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, giving demolition contractor J.R. Ramon & Sons, Inc., a huge task.
• Beginning in June, workers removed exterior stonework and other materials – including the building's dome – , labeled each piece, palletized it and shipped them for long-term storage. They also installed more than 15 tons of bracing to steady the remaining structure for the construction of nine stories of new space in and around the old.

From the article:

The new Tobin Center for the Performing Arts was planned to be built within the nearly 90-year-old San Antonio Municipal Auditorium. ...