Manhattan architect killed by the Manhattan architecture she created

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dr_rat: Jun 4, 2001

gleebster posted:

This suggests the building was built in 1915. So it looks like she couldn't have designed it.

Architects, much like Merlins do not travel through time much like you or eye.

So yeah, probably still her. All just another typical Architect suicide.

# ? Dec 26, 2019 03:00

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 08:09

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Remember when architect was the stock sitcom cool guy job

# ? Dec 26, 2019 12:42

JK Fresco: Jul 5, 2019

quote:

Amazon's first chief financial officer, Joy Covey, who helped fund the creation of its controversial delivery service, was killed after colliding with an Amazon delivery service van

"I heard a scream, immediately followed by a crash," the van's driver testified, according to the report.

The details of Covey's death emerged as Amazon has come under scrutiny over the impact of its growing delivery network

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke at Covey's memorial service and choked up as he shared a memory of her. But inside Amazon's logistics ranks, senior managers "regarded the death as just another traffic accident," the report said, citing three people familiar with the conversations.

JK Fresco fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Dec 26, 2019

# ? Dec 26, 2019 13:12

Biohazard: Apr 17, 2002

A whole lot of wrong people in this thread.

First of all, the blue demon horse is awesome, and if you�re not offering ritual sacrifices to it every night, you�re loving up.

Second, architects jobs aren�t as much about just �making things look nice�, though that�s the only part any of the lazy fucks I work with want to do it seems. There�s 2 primary tasks for architects in a given project. 1. By far the most important is life safety, making sure there�s a clear path out of the building, making sure there�s enough door width, that certain types of occupancies are separated by fire barriers, and that those barriers have the right details to not gently caress yo and everyone burns to death. 2. Is coordination. Even a small project has consultants for structural, mechanical, electrical , plumbing, civil, and landscape. A larger project will have all sorts of specialty consultants. Oh, and those are all engineers, so basically the job is to get a bunch of autistics to talk to each other so we don�t have loving chaos when the drat thing gets built. So enjoy the next we�ll layed our building that actually functions and doesn�t lead to you burning to death, ya jabronies :colbert:

But then, there are a whole bunch of trustifarians that get into the field. They typically just end up working on high end homes for the friends of their parents in whatever rich community they�re from. Once in a while one of them gets grand ideas and you end up with total idiots trying to do a fairly complex job, usually to hilarious results. See: a lot of well known manhattan architects.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Remember when architect was the stock sitcom cool guy job

Only Seinfeld did this right, as George doesn�t really know what the gently caress an architect does.

# ? Dec 26, 2019 14:50

Rad-daddio: Apr 25, 2017

Olympic Mathlete posted:

I work at a university and we had a new building designed. We looked at the plans and realised that in the largest lecture theatre they wanted to install a giant window. This is a 500 seater theatre with a projection screen maybe 50ft wide and they wanted that window above it. The window also faced East. We told them our concerns about it being a window with no way to block out the sun and that bright morning sun plus projected images = garbage and that having the window allowing the sun to shine into people's eyes is probably a bad move.

We were ignored.

The building got built as originally designed, all the kit went in and on the first day it opened (about 2 months late) it turns out that having a window that allowed the sun to shine in people's eyes unimpeded was a poo poo idea and that it also washed out the projectors really badly. The room was taken out of commission as soon as they could after receiving a whole host of complaints from those using the room and a company came in to install giant blinds on the window at a cost of tens of thousands and a loss of 2 months time. The blinds have been permanently closed ever since. Architects have little idea about the actual uses for the stuff they design. This same room is tiered and there's seating right up to the projection booth at the rear, the projectors are mounted in steel cages with micro-adjusters on them to allow them to be perfectly aligned/edge blended which would be great if the loving floor didn't bounce every time someone walks past the booth either inside or outside the room.

We're getting another building built, it's going to be mostly glass walls and the atrium is a mix of concrete floors and shiny wood which is going to be a loving acoustic nightmare. Architects are awful and basically cause nightmares for everyone involved in the building and commissioning of their lovely designs.

Reminds me of that glass building that Apple made that everyone keeps running into.

# ? Dec 26, 2019 14:59

Colonel Cancer: Sep 26, 2015; Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Architects are basically building-janitors (not to be confused with actual janitors in the building as they are cool and useful people)

# ? Dec 26, 2019 15:03

cnut: May 3, 2016

In Grade 9 the school I went to held a job fair with a bunch of different professions talking about their jobs. I wanted to be an architect so I went to talk to one and he took one look at me and laughed so I didn't want to be an architect anymore. I think I made the right decision :colbert:

Thank you Architect Man for laughing at me :3:

# ? Dec 26, 2019 15:40

Meme Poker Party: Sep 1, 2006; by Azathoth

The dad in The Brady Bunch was an architect and it seemed like he barely did any work and just spent time with his family and still made enough money for all of them.

Seems like a good job.

# ? Dec 26, 2019 18:34

Pick: Jul 19, 2009; Nap Ghost

So anytime a woman dies it's her fault and God's will against the trollop even if the logic jump required means she designed a building decades before she was born

# ? Dec 26, 2019 18:38

Colonel Cancer: Sep 26, 2015; Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Some might say she architected her own fate

# ? Dec 26, 2019 18:40

Ichabod Tane: Oct 30, 2005; A most notable
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cnut posted:

In Grade 9 the school I went to held a job fair with a bunch of different professions talking about their jobs. I wanted to be an architect so I went to talk to one and he took one look at me and laughed so I didn't want to be an architect anymore. I think I made the right decision

Thank you Architect Man for laughing at me

What about you caused laughter

# ? Dec 26, 2019 18:46

Johnny Aztec: Jan 30, 2005; by Hand Knit

Olympic Mathlete posted:

I work at a university and we had a new building designed. We looked at the plans and realised that in the largest lecture theatre they wanted to install a giant window. This is a 500 seater theatre with a projection screen maybe 50ft wide and they wanted that window above it. The window also faced East. We told them our concerns about it being a window with no way to block out the sun and that bright morning sun plus projected images = garbage and that having the window allowing the sun to shine into people's eyes is probably a bad move.

We were ignored.

The building got built as originally designed, all the kit went in and on the first day it opened (about 2 months late) it turns out that having a window that allowed the sun to shine in people's eyes unimpeded was a poo poo idea and that it also washed out the projectors really badly. The room was taken out of commission as soon as they could after receiving a whole host of complaints from those using the room and a company came in to install giant blinds on the window at a cost of tens of thousands and a loss of 2 months time. The blinds have been permanently closed ever since. Architects have little idea about the actual uses for the stuff they design. This same room is tiered and there's seating right up to the projection booth at the rear, the projectors are mounted in steel cages with micro-adjusters on them to allow them to be perfectly aligned/edge blended which would be great if the loving floor didn't bounce every time someone walks past the booth either inside or outside the room.

We're getting another building built, it's going to be mostly glass walls and the atrium is a mix of concrete floors and shiny wood which is going to be a loving acoustic nightmare. Architects are awful and basically cause nightmares for everyone involved in the building and commissioning of their lovely designs.

Call me reactionary if you'd like, but every high level person at that university involved in that, should have been booted immediately.
But Uni is just a massive money laundering scheme anyway anymore.

# ? Dec 26, 2019 18:50

cnut: May 3, 2016

Glenn Quebec posted:

What about you caused laughter

# ? Dec 26, 2019 20:07

Xotl: May 28, 2001; Be seeing you.

free hubcaps posted:

�Uh, if there was one word to describe my dead friend...umm.....*starts sweating* *notices model of british frigate on table behind reporter*

# ? Dec 26, 2019 20:34

Trixie Hardcore: Jul 1, 2006; Placeholder.

OP was it worth lying to us just to mock a woman�s death?

# ? Dec 26, 2019 20:36

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?