Another bad example of function follows form.
Don't worry it's designed to fall down properly! Where is DOT?
Overly cute architects that fall into themselves and out of design sense ...with developers with too much money and no equivalent refined sense of taste ....has always made ugly architecture.
Gravity has a priority over aesthetics in this case.A crooked floor creates a non-uniform load and that's a classic building (and people) killer.
The floors aren't crooked. The columns aren't conventionally designed. Corner and perimeter columns typically pull inwards due to loads on the interior side and no loads to counter outside. Having it bent like that resists forces like a crude flat arch. There are girders that tie to the the columns at/near the top of the building like arch abutments.
Give it 10 years until it collapses and we are giving the "developers" another tax break to do it all over again.
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Another bad example of function follows form.
Don't worry it's designed to fall down properly! Where is DOT?
Overly cute architects that fall into themselves and out of design sense ...
with developers with too much money and no equivalent refined sense of taste ....
has always made ugly architecture.
Gravity has a priority over aesthetics in this case.
A crooked floor creates a non-uniform load and that's a classic building (and people) killer.
The floors aren't crooked. The columns aren't conventionally designed. Corner and perimeter columns typically pull inwards due to loads on the interior side and no loads to counter outside. Having it bent like that resists forces like a crude flat arch. There are girders that tie to the the columns at/near the top of the building like arch abutments.
Give it 10 years until it collapses and we are giving the "developers" another tax break to do it all over again.
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