On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 10:47:23 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> On 4/27/2019 1:05 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>
>> So this is way worse than I ever suspected. Imagine the planet's
>> tallest building, the World Headquarters of the international
>> conglomerate "Monumentally Stupid and Impractical, Inc". It looks
>> something like this:
>>
>> http://austin.culturemap.com/news/re...wntown-austin/
>>
>> Every couple years they hire so many more Monumentally Stupid and
>> Impractical employees, that they have to keep adding on floors to
>> this building on top of the hold ones.
> That looks like the way they stacked pallets in the warehouse, not quite
> straight. Glass and steel, it will be outlawed in NYC to build like
> that too.

There was a somewhat interesting documentary on how it was built,
structurally. But this is ina city that recently had to replace
glass windows that were falling out of 40 story buildings and
crashing to the street after 4 months, and another 35-story
residence building that had glass balcony fronts that were
shattering (and raining down) for unknown reasons.

Having been on the 24th (top) floor of a building in San Jose during
a 6.1 earthquake in the 1990's, building technology has been
improved since the 5-story (55 feet, IIRC) limit in New York (I
think that was a "concrete" limit before steel).

The building I was in was swaying at least 20 feet in each
direction. You can't so much feel it except a mild motion sickness,
but if you're also looking out the window at the city lights at
night it's truly barf-worthy. And some people did. You literally
have to look away or else you're waiting for the rest of the city to
tilt more than 3 degrees, indicating you're dead in 7 seconds or
less.

-sw