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AnthonyAthletic

#40
October 09, 2007, 03:08:10 PM


Its Personal  >:(

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying"      (Arthur C. Clarke)

Shrunk

#41
October 09, 2007, 03:08:52 PM
Quote from: greg on October 09, 2007, 09:36:37 AM
now that, i can't say if i like or dislike, but it just looks like it might end up falling on someone...
i'd be scared to walk under that thing

Here's some info from OCAD's website on the structure of the Sharp Centre.  Whether or not it reassures you....

The table top structure is held up primarily by the central core. It was built like half of a suspension bridge. The core is equivalent to the tower at one end of the bridge, and the legs are equivalent to the suspension cables.

The legs, which are longer than the building height, are approximately 100' (10 storeys) high. They are hollow and made of steel approx
1" thick. Each leg weighs 18,000 pounds.

The legs were made in Pennsylvania and were originally meant to be natural gas pipeline. They were painted with many coats of special "intumescent" paint, which is extremely expensive but necessary to protect structural steel in case of fire. Under high heat, the paint swells up to provide a protective cushion around the structure. Intumescent paint has been used on all exposed structural steel in the Sharp Centre for Design.

The core sits on 12 foundation "caissons" made of concrete with steel reinforcing, each of which is five feet in diameter and extends 40 to 60 feet into the earth, plus five feet into the bedrock.

Each of the six pairs of legs sits on five caissons, again made of concrete with steel reinforcing and extending into the bedrock. However, these caissons are each eight feet in diameter.

The walls are nearly two feet thick because they contain the enormous steel structure.

The red exit "tube" houses a secondary exit stairwell, to be used only for emergency exiting.

To construct the Sharp Centre for Design, many of the workers had to complete difficult tasks at considerably great heights. PCL, the general contractor, is proud of the fact that no serious injuries were incurred throughout the construction project.

arkiv

#42
October 09, 2007, 05:52:07 PM


Quote from: O Mensch on October 09, 2007, 06:43:44 AM
Hey, I actually think that's kinda interesting. Wonder what it's like inside. What is it?

It is the "Congreso del Trabajo" (Congress of Labor) building in Mexico city.

arkiv

#43
October 09, 2007, 06:05:34 PM Last Edit: January 24, 2017, 06:41:47 PM by epicous
Torre Mayor in Reforma Av., Mexico city.

Awful and disfunctional tower (225 m):

http://www.dfinitivo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/torre-mayor.jpg

From behind:


Front:


Maciek

#44
October 10, 2007, 04:37:22 AM Last Edit: October 10, 2007, 04:39:03 AM by Maciek
Moscow is full of these but luckily we only have on in Warsaw. Can't understand how on earth it can still be standing - apparently tearing down a building of that size in the very center of the city would have been too complicated. Hopefully, with the advancement in technology... ;D

Of course, there are many, many, many other ugly buildings in Warsaw, real ugly ones - but nothing can compete with this. Makes me want to throw up if I stare too long at it - and there's hardly a place in the city center where you can't see it. >:(




There's a wikipedia article on it too, if you like some reading to go with your sightseeing. ;)

karlhenning

#45
October 10, 2007, 04:46:24 AM Last Edit: October 10, 2007, 06:04:00 AM by karlhenning
At least the trim along the top is artfully done, Maciek  8)

In comparison, the Geo Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria (Virginia, not Egypt) is a little clunky:

greg

#46
October 10, 2007, 05:08:08 AM
ok, some of the ones on page 2 i admit are really ugly  :P

Kullervo

#47
October 10, 2007, 05:35:08 AM
The "famous" Frank Lloyd Wright-designed main building at the Florida Southern campus.

Maciek

#48
October 10, 2007, 05:55:43 AM
Ah, modern window-less architecture! My pet peeve! ;D

karlhenning

#49
October 10, 2007, 06:02:25 AM
Aye, the "windows are a structural flaw" school of design  8)

karlhenning

#50
October 10, 2007, 06:05:05 AM
Oof! And what about that landscaped G?

Florestan

#52
October 10, 2007, 06:22:10 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on October 10, 2007, 06:05:05 AM
Oof! And what about that landscaped G?

It's probably a secret masonic allusion to the G-Spot...  ;D
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ." — Claude Debussy

BachQ

#53
October 10, 2007, 06:31:20 AM
Quote from: Corey on October 10, 2007, 06:16:11 AM


OMG ........ I'm in love ........

EmpNapoleon

#54
October 10, 2007, 07:31:46 AM
 :-X

EmpNapoleon

#55
October 10, 2007, 07:40:12 AM
rubbish!

EmpNapoleon

#56
October 10, 2007, 07:41:57 AM
 :'(

Haffner

#57
October 10, 2007, 07:45:21 AM
Go to Lewiston, Maine (or even worse, Rumford). Or maybe Cleveland. Real bad. Newark was pretty bad last time I went as well.

Drasko

#58
October 10, 2007, 07:49:06 AM
Quote from: Maciek on October 10, 2007, 05:55:43 AM
Ah, modern window-less architecture! My pet peeve! ;D

Then Van Der Rohe's Farnsworth House is the place of your dreams.

pjme

#59
October 10, 2007, 07:51:31 AM Last Edit: October 10, 2007, 08:05:25 AM by pjme





The new "Jusititie gebouw" (Court House) in Antwerp. architect : Richard Rogers
Rogers was inspired by the sails of ships ( the building is very close to the river Schelde)
Extremely expensive ( 250 million euro) and, of course, controversial. Nicknames : Butterfly palace or 'frietzak" ( =oldfashioned,triangular paper bags used to sell French (hmmm...Belgian!) fries in :


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