Surely they could have found this voice. }, }); I wonder how many other architectural flaws there are hidden around the city just waiting for disaster to occur. I realize now you are assuming “d” is the diagonal across the floor plan of the building. I proved (to myself at least) that the distance from a column to the axis of rotation shown is indeed d/4. var id = arc_pathname($(this).attr('href'), true);
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University of Technology Sydney. [25] All signage for Citigroup was removed from the building and surrounding block. if (data.status == 'ignore'){
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I can see how a non-engineer can frame this story as happy ending, but in my world people get fired for negligence like this. Structural engineer William LeMessurier designed the tower to be supported by four massive columns 114 feet (35 meters) high, positioned at the center of each side, rather than at the corners. And so the public—including the building’s occupants—were never notified. } } According to LeMessurier, in 1978 he got a phone call from an undergraduate architecture student making a bold claim about LeMessurier’s building. buttons: ['bold', 'italic', 'lists', 'link', 'image'], $("form.arc_ajax_comment .CommentForm").hide();
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You did an episode before about the ethics of building prisons. { var lineCount = Math.ceil(textarea.value.length / (textarea.cols + 20));
Design and Innovation Fundamentals (048240 ) Academic year. It was little more than luck that welding the bolted joints was a sufficient solution to the problem. $('#arc_new_comment').slideDown();
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As an engineer, I am always amazed at the extent to which architects will go to make excused for their art. { Good catch by the student and kudos for the architect for not letting his ego get in the way. When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center (later renamed Citigroup Center, now called 601 Lexington) was, at 59 stories, the seventh-tallest building in the world. "chat-question": { toolbar: [['Bold', 'Italic', 'BulletedList','NumberedList', 'Link', 'Image']], {
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Doesn’t anyone else think it is cowardly on the part of Roman, Sam & the rest of the 99PI folk not to take an explicit stand on this issue? if($(this).is('.login_trigger'))
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As a former architecture student, I absolutely love this episode. On the surface, this story seems a stuffy piece of esoteric academic and scientific history. Kanye West's first YEEZY Home project appears to be a prefab affordable housing scheme, New executive order could make classical architecture "the preferred and default style" for America's public buildings, Blair Kamin calls restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple "triumphant", 10 examples of old & new architecture coexisting harmoniously, 10 modern architectural adaptations of old buildings, XLarch / Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Stantec-designed Straub Medical Center–Kahala Clinic & Urgent Care, Popular Modern and Traditional Interior Design that you'll love, 'The Midnight Charette' is now 'The Second Studio', BAC Awarded Grant to Begin Partnership with University of Baltistan, Skardu (UoBS), XJTLU joins UN-Habitat UNI’s work for a more sustainable urban future.