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Twisted ways

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 4:42 pm
by Long Run
Awesome or just because you can doesn't mean you should?

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Re: Twisted ways

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 4:55 pm
by Bicycle Bill
With the tower's narrow base flaring up and out, and the definite 'twist' in the tower itself, it looks like it's paying homage to the tornado from "The Wizard of Oz."

-"BB"-

Re: Twisted ways

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:33 pm
by Burning Petard
I wonder just what wind force parameters the design was run through on the computer. Who ever bank-rolled this project certainly has faith in the science of computer design.

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Re: Twisted ways

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:51 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
You'll never get me up in that thing.

Uh. That doesn't sound right

Re: Twisted ways

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:13 pm
by Sue U
Not nearly as terrifying from this angle:

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Vancouver is a beautiful city in a great location. Not all the amenities I'd want in a city, but if I were offered an apartment in that building I don't think I'd turn it down.

Re: Twisted ways

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:26 am
by ex-khobar Andy
I'm sure the developers have got their money out of it. By the time it needs serious attention to keep it up, they will be long gone. It claims to be based on the Flatiron building in NYC, but that is intrinsically in stable equilibrium on a base the same shape as the upper floors. All it (Flatiron) needs is gravity and concrete of the correct compressibility. Not so with the Vancouver building.

Re: Twisted ways

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:25 pm
by Crackpot
I like the green space on top of the surrounding buildings

Re: Twisted ways

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:56 pm
by Jarlaxle
Nope.