Interested in architecture?

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09 April 2020, 03:38 PM

big al

Interested in architecture?

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

Big Al

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09 April 2020, 03:57 PM

Mary Anna

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

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09 April 2020, 05:41 PM

wtg

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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09 April 2020, 06:13 PM

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

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09 April 2020, 06:27 PM

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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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10 April 2020, 09:18 AM

Mary Anna

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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10 April 2020, 01:21 PM

big al

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