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If so, you might spend some time at The Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia.

Big Al


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Gee thanks, Big Al. I'm going to lose an afternoon or three at that site.

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Time well spent, I'm sure, MA. I'll bet there's inspiration for more than one Faye book in that there site.

Meanwhile, I'm looking at the beer factories....


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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb

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You want architecture? Check out this building... a quarter mile high with a 60' base. I could never be comfortable there.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...eft-coronavirus.html


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Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
You want architecture? Check out this building... a quarter mile high with a 60' base. I could never be comfortable there.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...eft-coronavirus.html



I imagine it sways near the top...no thank you!


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The heaviest building in the world on a base that small?

I would never stop imagining it punching a hole in Manhattan and slowly sinking. They never hit bedrock on one end of the Brooklyn Bridge, so maybe this site would be like that and the thing would sink and sink and sink....


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I doubt that claim about being the heaviest building in the world. It might very well have the heaviest set of tuned mass dampers of any building in the world. I wonder what sort of sway remains with them functioning? If they should be disabled by some malfunction, I expect the sway would be extreme. One can only hope they have allowed for that contingency. I think elevator access would be problematic at best. It would be an awfully long walk down in an emergency.

Big Al


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Money seems to buy the most happiness when you give it away.

Why does everything have to be so complicated, all in the name of convenience. -ShiroKuro

A lifetime of experience will change a person. If it doesn't, then you're already dead inside. -MarkJ

 
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