Building melts cars

[Andrew Spiering]

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

[Roland Beinert]

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

[Rob Halpern]

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?)

[Andrew Spiering]

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 🙂

[Rob Halpern]

Or accept government defense contract work

[Jason T. Radice]

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.

[Trace One]

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

[Rob Halpern]

Or the buildings across the street!

[Andrew Spiering]

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

[Roland Beinert]

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

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