Since I know you all love walking columns.. 14

[MIStructE_IRE]

I see this proposed at 457m tall in Manhattan..

With sway problems already apparent in some of the supertalls.. lifts not working in the wind, creaking noises, bath tubs sloshing around.. why would anyone want the hassle of designing this?!

 

[XR250]

A few guy wires to the adjacent buildings and they will be good...

 

[Enable]

An architect's dream truly is an engineer's nightmare

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[dhengr]

MIStructE_IRE:
The dummies, they built the whole thing upside down. I told the EOR not to remove the “Top” and “Bottom” notations on the borders of the Elevation Sheets of the Drwgs.

 

[Tomfh]

So ugly.

 

[KootK]

Buildings like this don't actually bother me much from an engineering perspective. Sure, they introduce to unnecessary risks and complications but that's all stuff that can be "engineered". And engineering is what we do, right?

What bothers me about a building like this is simply that it offends my aesthetic sensibilities. Any boob with two brain cells to rub together recognizes that form is just a fuzzy, visceral extension of function. To needlessly construct a building like this that is so disharmoniously out of step with natural principals is, to me, the very definition of "ugly".

EDIT: tomfh and I must have cross posted. To my chagrin, he's beaten me to the punch on the "ugly" of this thing. Hopefully it's an internet hoax rather than a real proposal.

 

[KootK]

This is another one that looks hideous to me and that I hope is a social media myth. Why provide a forest of sticks and 88 steel connection to accomplish what a couple of steel cables could do? Yeah, I get it: there's a contingent of folks out there that won't be happy until every damn thing is made of mass timber. How far are we going to take that though? If spiders had LinkedIn accounts, I've no doubt that there would be a few kicking around bragging about how they've made their webs out of new, innovative, perforated CLT panels or some such.

 

[Enable]

LOL it's so good to have KootK back. The comment about spiders and CLT panels just killed me.

Next time I go boarding in Banff (2026 at this rate) I'll have to make a point to hit you up. That is if you'd accept an Ontario native in your neck of the woods

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[human909]

So ugly.

My thoughts exactly.

I doubt this will get off the ground. (figuratively and literally). It is neither architecturally (IMO) elegant nor structurally elegant. Seems to be more of a case of "let's draw something different."

The industrial design world is even worse when it comes to 'designers' drawing things that are ugly engineering nightmares. ESPECIALLY when it comes to bicycles.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ind...Ak&bih=1076&biw=2133&rlz=1C1GCEA_enAU961AU961

Somebody once said that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But some beholder's are blind." I believe the second part of the phrase has been lost over time.

 

[MIStructE_IRE]

This bridge is a disgrace koot! The funny thing is, they put the cables (anchors) in anyway and just hide them below ground!!

 

[KootK]

Next time I go boarding in Banff (2026 at this rate) I'll have to make a point to hit you up. That is if you'd accept an Ontario native in your neck of the woods

Oh yes, definitely make a point of connecting with me when next you visit the Rockies. I can even supply food and shelter.

 

[cliff234]

Two observations:

First - You can solve most engineering challenges if you throw enough money at it. They will have to throw a lot of money at this design.

Second - This design just doesn't look right. In my opinion, if in my gut it doesn't look right, there's a problem somewhere.

 

[Ron]

@dhengr...

Yep.. Would be good if they could just figure out how to turn the drawings right side up.

 

[Ron]

This albatross sat alongside I-4 in Altamonte Springs, Florida (just north of Orlando) for many years before completion. Ugly.

I thought architects were supposed to make it pretty and we make it work....I guess we still have to make it work even if it's not pretty.

 

[Enhineyero]

Its probably one of those things that will end up like this:

 

[CrabbyT]

This is another one that looks hideous to me and that I hope is a social media myth.

Nope, it's real. It's called Skybridge Michigan, and it's supposed to open next summer.......

https://2030.boynemountain.com/

 

[dik]

Take a gander...

https://www.who.com.au/the-10-craziest-buildings-in-china

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[3DDave]

Ron - better than the breadbasket building.

https://qz.com/quartzy/1176205/basket-shaped-building-in-ohio-is-sold/

 

[dik]

Is that ever neat...

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[btrueblood]

Oh good God. That video of the Boyne mountain bridge seems to indicate the bridge will have skiers/boarders crossing it...I can see a massive pileup of bodies when one person can't make the climb, and stops near the bottom, and a dozen or two skiers/boarders behind him crash.