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mind the walrus posted:It's not one iota dumber than any other Scooby property in the last 60 years so who gives a rip? You take that back! The What's New Scooby Doo series is awesome. My daughter is literally watching it, right now, and she will not tolerate such balderdash  Plus, they have some rippin' punk rock on the soundtrack. Funny picture tax: 
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Down in Orlando there used to be a strip club made from two domes joined together. Painted pink. With brown caps. Never went there, since I was just a goonlet, but I did find it fascinating. Maybe that's the reason I like bigguns? 
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I love watching truckers get wrecked by their own hubris but this one seems like the bridge maker was negligent.
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Well, it's still standing. I'd say it was on purpose.
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Cable Guy posted:You sure she didn't say Volvo...? I used to work for Smurfit Stone as a "package designer" and got to visit Chicago. That building is awesome.
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BiggerBoat posted:I used to work for Smurfit Stone as a "package designer" and got to visit Chicago. That building is awesome. Did you gently caress it though?
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How was that a better solution than buying a hatchback
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gbut posted:Dat rear end What if they made the house longer?
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You're all missing the important question. Can you gently caress it?
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gbut posted:Dat rear end You know at least one dude committed a sex o'fence.
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I guess if he went deep enough he'd also be a sex o'fender.
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gbut posted:Dat rear end That gate is thicc
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If it’s a Tesla, does that mean he’s committing sexual battery?
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every time I walk by that building (which is not often--I don't live in Seattle) I wonder what the gently caress the point was
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Just lower the road.
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morallyobjected posted:every time I walk by that building (which is not often--I don't live in Seattle) I wonder what the gently caress the point was Short answer, more ground space for other things around it. ”Supposedly, the architect’s website” posted:Minoru Yamasaki designed the complex with the primary intent of retaining as much of the site for outdoor public use as possible. Positioning the building on a pedestal located at the corner of the site achieved maximum land area for low rise commercial development and open green area. Appearing to taper toward the ground like an inverted pyramid, the skyscraper’s 121 foot concrete base is equivalent to eleven stories. Reminiscent of a felled tree, the building has attained the nickname of “the beaver building”. The base carries the thirty two story aluminum-clad office tower on steel framing.
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Minoru Yamasaki, man, he just loved concrete. (It's so a now-defunct underground shopping mall could be built, and 'cause it looks rad)
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morallyobjected posted:every time I walk by that building (which is not often--I don't live in Seattle) I wonder what the gently caress the point was cause it's fuckin' cool you rear end in a top hat!!1
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mind the walrus posted:It's not one iota dumber than any other Scooby property in the last 60 years so who gives a rip? Oh for sure. I mean they've already met Batman and Weird Al. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzQbBRBMFDs
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Cable Guy posted:You sure she didn't say Volvo...? Well, that is the Swedish consulate.
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Cable Guy posted:You sure she didn't say Volvo...? It's boxy, but it's good.
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morallyobjected posted:every time I walk by that building (which is not often--I don't live in Seattle) I wonder what the gently caress the point was quote:The unusual tapered base was selected for multiple reasons. First, its form proved highly effective in resisting huge seismic jolts that could affect Seattle. Second, Yamasaki wanted to preserve the "green" character of Downtown Seattle, and therefore wanted to minimize the building's footprint on the site. Third, he wanted to devote much of the ground space to a retail shopping plaza. Fourth, clearly, Yamasaki also was enamored of the base's soaring, curved form. Groda posted:Well, that is the Swedish consulate.
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EdibleBodyParts posted:Short answer, more ground space for other things around it. The craziest thing is every indication seems to be the design works. Maybe more buildings should be built that way.
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Does anyone have links to the old 'post bad architecture' threads
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The craziest thing is every indication seems to be the design works. Maybe more buildings should be built that way. At times like these I like to point and laugh at the Citibank building  The architect thought he was so clever by putting it on stilts so it took up less footprint and avoided having to demolish a classic old church the next block over. It was built with the highest modern standards in mind, and would stand up to a once-in-a-multi-century level hurricane! He showed all the wind force calculations to the students he was proudly giving a presentation to, about how the max wind forces against any one of the faces wouldn't destabilize the building at all. But one of the students noticed that those stilts uhhhhh meant that the footprint was actually diagonal from what the building's four faces are. And a lot smaller a square. So the wind loads against the diagonal faces would blow the thing over in like 10 years statistically By that point though the building was already built and full of bankers happily and industriously destroying the economic middle class. So the architects, panicking, had to invent some kind of insane counterweight system that they could install in the basement to counteract any wind loads and flexing that might happen above ground, and they had to do it IN SECRET so the tenants wouldn't catch on that they were in a death trap and the insurance bankrupt everybody. They built all that poo poo after hours over the course of years and only after they were done did the story come out. Data Graham has a new favorite as of 12:51 on Jul 9, 2020 |
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Just picturing that student watching the presentation like "You forgot about the essence of the game. It's about the" corners.
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morallyobjected posted:every time I walk by that building (which is not often--I don't live in Seattle) I wonder what the gently caress the point was Proactively preparing for when it’s time to abandon Seattle’s street level and just build everything higher again https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground
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Data Graham posted:At times like these I like to point and laugh at the Citibank building They needed to be even more covert than that, because the fix wasn't in the basement. There are a series of angled beams directing corner loads to the center of each face, pointing at the stilts. These were not all concentrated around emergency stairwells, which might have been covert. No, no, this was the era when structural components moved back to the outside, allowing less overall steel use and taller buildings. Citicorp Center was, when built, the 7th tallest building in the world. The result? Their covert after-hours fix happened in offices and common areas:  Beauty of an architecture component, don't you think? Another aggravating factor in the vulnerability was introduced, as so many are, in construction when a change of design was proposed. To save money these angled beams were joined not with the originally-planned welds but with cheaper and quicker bolts. This lowered their strength, but calculations showed it'd be fine with the cardinal-directions winds. As Data Graham said, quartering winds weren't considered and the change was approved. So the fix required welders coming in after-hours, taking off finishing from these structural components, welding on plates over the joints, then refinishing so it looked like all that occurred was a new paint job.  Oh, and a category 4 hurricane headed towards it 6 weeks into the repair. Thankfully it decided to just buzz the east coast and gently caress off to retire someplace vikings used to live.  Another fun thing about the "beams near the outside" design was the need for a tuned mass damper. Basically, this is a huge counterweight in the upper floors which moves to cancel out any vibrations that get started. This was original design, and quickly caught on because besides making it safer it made taller buildings less vomit-inducing. Here's a fun video showing both the tuned mass damper and the emergency fix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUImgTJHJOw&t=192s e: added 2 pictures BrianBoitano has a new favorite as of 14:13 on Jul 9, 2020 |
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ewiley posted:Proactively preparing for when it’s time to abandon Seattle’s street level and just build everything higher again
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