Speaking of Dallas, there is this other well known icon; it even revolves.
The Raised Faculty Building at the University of Cambridge.
Thats why I hate the damn Guggenheim. You’re on a spiral ramp. Not so much the spiral, but the slope, which even unconsciously screws up you’re relationship/appreciation/experience of 99% of art, which works on acute planes.
I totally agree. It should be called “The Thumb.”
These houses were for sale about 15 years ago and we went to look at them. The geometry inside the house made for awkward setup and we didn’t have the money to have custom cabinetry created.
The L Tower is going up as well.
Like I said, that render does it no favours at all. It’s still not finished, but I think it looks pretty damn cool in the flesh.
Actually it’s not that bad. Most of them are regular apartments and one part is actually a Hostel. Here are some interior views: view1, view2, and view3.
Here is the website of the Hostel: http://www.stayokay.com/en/hostel/rotterdam
K, that lower seat is a death trap. You just know everyone hits their head on the beam getting up.
Yeah that just doesn’t look appealing. I’ve lived in attic lofts before and the angled wall thing really blows goats.
Well, if we’re going to count buildings that are only slightly wider at the top, I nominate the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Residences in Toronto.
You know, as in, “not the daytime.”
I think he was expressing skepticism that major repairs would be restricted to nighttime hours. Reading online, it does specifically mention the welders worked all night, but it’s not clear whether that was because they were welding day and night or whether they were trying to keep the state of the structural integrity of the building a secret (which, in fact, it was).
Duh. Why would welding have to be done at night?
Nova or another PBS science program ran an episode about the structural problems with the Citigroup Center building. As they presented it, the welding was being done to the structure of the building in the outside walls, which meant the welders had to go into the office suites to do their work. Presumably the tenants would not want to have welders in their offices while they were trying to work, so that’s one reason for doing the work after hours. But yes, they did conceal the facts about the structural flaw for years, even from tenants of that building and the neighboring ones (which the building would have fallen onto). The Wikipedia article mentions these issues.
You can thank the Equitable Building for that.