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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | Have you this one, pivoting sky scrapers. Architect David Fischer's DynamicArchitecture. I don't think I'd want to be the first try an apartment in one of these, even if I could afford it. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | I wonder how he'll get the elevators to work. There's some pretty strong flexing going on there. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
I wonder how he'll get the elevators to work. There's some pretty strong flexing going on there. They'll all be in the middle axis, the real problem is: How do you find your appartment if it moves around? | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,242 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
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I wonder how he'll get the elevators to work. There's some pretty strong flexing going on there.
They'll all be in the middle axis, the real problem is: How do you find your appartment if it moves around? Certainly add a new twist to coming home drunk  Steve |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 171 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting snarbo: Quote:
Quoting goblinsdoitall:
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Quoting Dr. Killpatient:
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I wonder how he'll get the elevators to work. There's some pretty strong flexing going on there.
They'll all be in the middle axis, the real problem is: How do you find your appartment if it moves around?
Certainly add a new twist to coming home drunk
Steve Absolutely! Talk about getting a case of the room zooms! |
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 | Dan W | | Registered: May 9, 2002 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 980 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is not necessarily new technology. You just haven't seen it done to an entire building.
Anyone know about the Seattle Space Needle or similar buildings like the one in Atlanta?
These move so slowly that you don't feel the movement unless you are very sensitive to motion or are "looking" for it. | | | | Dan |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 171 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dan W: Quote:
This is not necessarily new technology. You just haven't seen it done to an entire building.
Anyone know about the Seattle Space Needle or similar buildings like the one in Atlanta?
These move so slowly that you don't feel the movement unless you are very sensitive to motion or are "looking" for it. You are right, it's been done, but nowhere near this scale. Creating a building that has a rotating piece is a massive engineering effort, but putting multiple moving sections that can potentially move independently REALLY takes some engineering. I'm just imagining the tolerances that need to be dealt with on a building of this size that will flex and sway in the wind. I would hate to see the 9th and 10th floors crash into each other! |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,550 |
| | Posted: | | | | I can already see Hollywood working on a Towering Inferno remake with this building as the center piece...  | | | | Last edited: by The Movieman |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm getting dizzy just looking at the animation of it!  It does look cool though if they can pull it off. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,652 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMovieman: Quote:
I can already see Hollywood working on a Towering Inferno remake with this building as the center piece... Oooooooh! That could be interesting! they have remade so many not so good movies that this could be a god idea!  | | | <---------Mithrandir, Laverne and Shirley
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