Re:Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars
by gaius on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @10:36AM
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No, it is a systemic problem. If a civil engineer routinely designed building that bits fell off and destroyed parked cars, he'd lose his license to practice! Where's the Guild of Architects when you need them?
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Re:Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars
by willyt on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:45AM
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What, you mean like the civil engineer who designed the wobbly bridge? [0] Even though the phenomenon of synchronised footsteps causing large oscillations due to positive feedback is well enough known that there is another bridge in London built over 150 years earlier which has a sign on it saying 'Soldiers marching across this bridge must break step'.
I don't like the 'walkie talkie' and I'm not a fan of gesture architects like Vinoly, Libeskind, Ghery etc. But, there are plenty of other far less obtuse critiques of this kind of architecture than 'GOD you forgot to model the solar rays on the 3rd of September 2013, you IDIOT!!!'.
People do make mistakes, including engineers. And, by the way, the engineer who designed the wobbly bridge is still very highly regarded in the profession.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London
Edit: corrected grammar and moved sentence to clarify.
Re:Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars
by etler on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @06:40PM
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Making the mistake once is forgivable, but twice? After all the press from his previous parabolic building, you'd think he'd give it a second thought!
Re:Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars
by option_greek on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @10:49AM
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Shouldn't the building require a review by the engineers after it is designed by the architect ?