And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Looks like The Leaning Tower of Russian Tenement. Yet they built this abomination by some architect thinking doing something outrageous affords making a name for themselves. What a lousy use of space that makes you heave just looking at it. Like Gehry's idiocy. Imagine decorating your room or simply walking down the hallway. Aesthetics matter, but only after function...let alone the added cost to construct this mess.
Each ascending floor has to be framed as increasing cantilevers on that left side, I'm sure the interior is plumb with only the shell having the illusion of a tilt. A waste of structural budget to be sure, but not difficult to calculate loads for design.
Even just looking at that picture makes me queasy, it's messing with my middle ear.
ReplyDeleteit's the Ridiculous Loss of Usable Space application of the Lookee Me School
ReplyDeletePhuqing architects.
ReplyDeleteForm over function. Followed by the ever popular " it can't cost that much to build it ".
Paging James Howard Kunstler; white courtesy phone, please.
ReplyDeleteLooks like The Leaning Tower of Russian Tenement. Yet they built this abomination by some architect thinking doing something outrageous affords making a name for themselves. What a lousy use of space that makes you heave just looking at it. Like Gehry's idiocy. Imagine decorating your room or simply walking down the hallway. Aesthetics matter, but only after function...let alone the added cost to construct this mess.
ReplyDeleteEach ascending floor has to be framed as increasing cantilevers on that left side, I'm sure the interior is plumb with only the shell having the illusion of a tilt. A waste of structural budget to be sure, but not difficult to calculate loads for design.
Deletewhy? just because you can design something, doesn't mean you should build it.
ReplyDeleteI like it!
ReplyDeleteHow do you make something that still does a simple-basic job but looks different?
A friend had an AMC Gremlin whose design & color those buildings remind me of, for some reason.
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