Dave Concepcion posted:

SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:

This thread is for posting buildings that are ugly but functional, beautiful but moronic, poorly built, poorly placed, or will kill you for some reason.

We were just talking about this thing in a LAN thread. It's 200 stories high and a condo. Towards the top you've got about a 30 degree slope. Besides the obvious danger of imminent death to passersby, there's the fact that the wealthiest condo buyers in the building, on the highest floors, get windowless apartments for half of the year. This was actually built in tyool 2014.

amityville anus posted:

Do they smash out the windows on a holiday and have a 6 month waiting list to get new ones? This doesn't add up, OP

IzzyFnStradlin posted:

Why doesn't that building work properly? IE, why do the windows fall off? IDGI.

IzzyFnStradlin posted:

Why doesn't that building work properly? IE, why do the windows fall off? IDGI.

IzzyFnStradlin posted:

Why doesn't that building work properly? IE, why do the windows fall off? IDGI.

Robo Reagan posted:

can we not talk about groverhaus for once

olylifter posted:

Yeah the L Tower isn't 200 loving stories high, dude.

Sure is ugly, but like, when you look at it in context of the rest of the glass abortions that they've poo poo all over Toronto in the past 5 years it doesn't really stand out that much.

Volcott posted:

Here's some light reading on times where it did not hold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_wedding_hall_disaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_collapse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse

Rare Collectable posted:

more like Frank L. WRONG.

Rare Collectable posted:

more like Frank L. WRONG.

Dave Concepcion posted:

we must never meet, the gamma ray burst would kill everyone






we are opposite you see

Rare Collectable posted:

more like Frank L. WRONG.

love your home posted:

lol @ when it finally sinks

boom boom boom posted:

That thing is held together by steel cables and volunteers who have to shovel snow off every time it snows. If everyone who works there took the same week off for vacation they'd come back to find a pile of rubble

Code Jockey posted:

Volcott posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse

quote:

Dr. Joseph Waeckerle, former chief of Kansas City's emergency medical system, directed the rescue effort [2] establishing a makeshift morgue in a ground floor exhibition area,[10] using the hotel's taxicab driveway as a triage area and helping to organize the wounded by greatest need for medical care.[11] Those people who could walk were instructed to leave the hotel to simplify the rescue effort; those mortally injured were told they were going to die and given morphine.[7][dead link][12] Often, rescuers had to dismember bodies in order to reach survivors among the wreckage.[7] One victim's right leg was trapped under an I-beam and had to be amputated by a surgeon, a task which was completed with a chain saw.[13]

fyodor posted:

i went here. all the door frames are designed for someone shorter than like 5'7" because FLW was a wee man and hated "tall" people im not kidding.

Inevitable posted:

Sorry about all the deaths and wars and poo poo, but those things were ugly and I'm glad they're gone.

love your home posted:

Now here is a real gently caress up, it's called The Tower of David; basically half way through construction poo poo hit the fan economically in Venezuela and all of the financiers pulled out. Now it's an haven for drug dealers and prostitutes and kind of a like a modern Kowloon Walled City

nomadologique posted:

please get a raid/dredd movie set here tank you

SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:

I just explained it. Funnily enough, however, we do have a separate recently constructed skyscraper that *does* have an issue with the windows popping off and hurrying down to ruin someone's nice white blouse.


"“In total, there have been five failures at this building,” Angelucci told the Star, nothing that two may have been caused by impacts, while the cause of others is unknown.
Thursday’s failure was the third time in 10 months that police were called to close a street beside the new hotel-condo building, including when a 53-year-old man was struck and injured by falling glass last September.
No one was hurt Thursday when a panel broke and fell from a private patio on the 51st floor of the condo tower, throwing thick glass shards all over University Ave. and onto the sidewalk."