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TONY ORTEGA
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[A fan favorite: The Oiliness Table]
One of our very favorite series of articles that we did at the Village Voice were based on renderings and architectural drawings of Scientology’s “Flag Building” — also known as the Super Power Building — that were leaked to us back in 2012, a year before the building formally opened. If you go look up those stories today at the Voice website, 13 years later, the images are long gone. But we managed to recover them and decided we’d find a place here at the Substack for them. They are still, to this day, the most complete rundown of what this building is like inside and out. Yesterday we posted the first story in the series. This second story was originally published on January 10, 2012.
Yesterday, we made public a leak of major proportions: we obtained hundreds of new renderings and architectural drawings of Scientology’s $100 million “Super Power Building” -- what the church calls “Flag Mecca” — in Clearwater, Florida.
Of all the “perceptics” installations on the building’s “super power” fifth floor that we learned about, one that seems to disturb readers the most is the notion of an “oiliness table.” We’re still not sure what Scientologists will be subjected to when they have their sense of “oiliness” checked, but we found this rendering of the apparatus, and we have additional, never-before-seen images from the building.
Before we show any more images, however, we thought we’d roll credits first. As in, we found this list of who was responsible for turning church leader David Miscavige‘s dreams into reality. As of 2009, these were the firms on board...
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One of our very favorite series of articles that we did at the Village Voice were based on renderings and architectural drawings of Scientology’s “Flag Building” — also known as the Super Power Building — that were leaked to us back in 2012, a year before the building formally opened. If you go look up those stories today at the Voice website, 13 years later, the images are long gone. But we managed to recover them and decided we’d find a place here at the Substack for them. They are still, to this day, the most complete rundown of what this building is like inside and out. Yesterday we posted the first story in the series. This second story was originally published on January 10, 2012.
Yesterday, we made public a leak of major proportions: we obtained hundreds of new renderings and architectural drawings of Scientology’s $100 million “Super Power Building” -- what the church calls “Flag Mecca” — in Clearwater, Florida.
Of all the “perceptics” installations on the building’s “super power” fifth floor that we learned about, one that seems to disturb readers the most is the notion of an “oiliness table.” We’re still not sure what Scientologists will be subjected to when they have their sense of “oiliness” checked, but we found this rendering of the apparatus, and we have additional, never-before-seen images from the building.
Before we show any more images, however, we thought we’d roll credits first. As in, we found this list of who was responsible for turning church leader David Miscavige‘s dreams into reality. As of 2009, these were the firms on board...
READ MORE
Scientology and Oiliness: More Renderings from the Super Power Building
One of our very favorite series of articles that we did at the Village Voice were based on renderings and architectural drawings of Scientology’s “Flag Building” — also known as the Super Power Building — that were leaked to us back in 2012, a year before the building formally opened.
tonyortega.substack.com
