Building melts cars

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September 4, 2013 at 9:35 pm #154184

Roland Beinert
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Thought this was kind of funny: http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=242&doc_id=525693

September 6, 2013 at 5:38 pm #154194

Andrew Spiering
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Holy smokes! If the reflection can do that to a car, I wonder what it can do to skin… yikes!

September 6, 2013 at 6:14 pm #154193

Roland Beinert
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Apparently, burning people is an issue with another skyscraper designed by the same architect: http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=213&doc_id=525705&image_number=1

September 6, 2013 at 6:27 pm #154192

Rob Halpern
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Amazing. So they design a concave mirror of huge proportions and no one on the team raises a red flag? (Or did they and it was incinerated?)

September 6, 2013 at 7:13 pm #154191

Andrew Spiering
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Doh! Well, the architect seems to have a knack for inadvertently designing death rays. I think the team needs to do a few more sun/shade studies 🙂

September 6, 2013 at 11:30 pm #154190

Rob Halpern
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Or accept government defense contract work

September 7, 2013 at 12:29 am #154189

Jason T. Radice
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It gets worse. He admits it was a problem that they knew about, but just happened to ‘underestimate.’ Solar modelling is just soooo expensive nowandays (that’s sarcasm).

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/06/walkie-talkie-architect-predicted-reflection-sun-rays

This is the second time he did this, so its time for somebody to pull his architecture license. No way you can get away with repeatedly thumbing you nose at health, safety, and welfare. Maybe then his flippant attitude might be readjusted.

September 7, 2013 at 10:25 am #154188

Trace One
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seems like an opportunity to run the whole building off solar power.

September 7, 2013 at 2:29 pm #154187

Rob Halpern
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Or the buildings across the street!

September 7, 2013 at 10:02 pm #154186

Andrew Spiering
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Haha… who knows, they could be working under cover 😉

September 9, 2013 at 8:59 pm #154185

Roland Beinert
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I like how they try to blame the sun: Lousy sun, always changing angles with the seasons. So capricious!
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