Guess they want to be sure it will survive and Earth Quake....or several minor ones before it opens....Stubbins Sturctural Engineer didn't work on it did he?
"... some workers there are dubbing the place the "Tower of Torture.''...
the building has so much natural lighting -- one of its heralded architectural achievements -- that some workers have resorted to wearing sunglasses and keeping sun umbrellas at their desks."
I think the curvature of the earth would exclude the possibility of viewing the federal building from new york. But then you could admire the architecture inside of a garbage can in your alley just the same.
Rumor has it neither the GSA nor Morphosis produced a building maintenance manual, so nobody knows how the building works, especially its sustainable features. Couple that with a building full of lazy half-wit federal employees who probably hate anything new and you don't exactly have a recipe for success.
A part of me doesn't believe one should have to learn how to use a building, but in some cases it benefits the user to do so and is worth the effort.
My office has huge windows, but we have these things called window shades. Rarely in the scope of a base building, I suspect the client group chose not to install them cuz someone went over budget (oops!). Do you think nobody at any point during design brought up the possible glare issue, or do you suppose everyone assumed the sun shading strategies would suffice?
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90 day wait on SF Federal Building
Apparently they are not letting the general public in for 3 months. Maybe I could get a job as a janitor....
i will sneak in as a judge.
aww - and i am headed up there this weekend
THAT BLDG IS AWESOME! I HAVE A VIEW OF IT FROM MY APARTMENT!
You must have a big telescope in NY.
maybe there's something about it on youtube grid.
Guess they want to be sure it will survive and Earth Quake....or several minor ones before it opens....Stubbins Sturctural Engineer didn't work on it did he?
there is there a ViDeO
I thought the amount of steel needed to hold up the metal screen facade was pretty impressive. Maybe it's actually a missile deflector or something.
"... some workers there are dubbing the place the "Tower of Torture.''...
the building has so much natural lighting -- one of its heralded architectural achievements -- that some workers have resorted to wearing sunglasses and keeping sun umbrellas at their desks."
From SF Gate
thats just like our office. all open with plenty of light to give glare induced headaches.
I think the curvature of the earth would exclude the possibility of viewing the federal building from new york. But then you could admire the architecture inside of a garbage can in your alley just the same.
amazingly ...my screen name doesn't depict where i live, ha! what do ya knpw!
Rumor has it neither the GSA nor Morphosis produced a building maintenance manual, so nobody knows how the building works, especially its sustainable features. Couple that with a building full of lazy half-wit federal employees who probably hate anything new and you don't exactly have a recipe for success.
A part of me doesn't believe one should have to learn how to use a building, but in some cases it benefits the user to do so and is worth the effort.
My office has huge windows, but we have these things called window shades. Rarely in the scope of a base building, I suspect the client group chose not to install them cuz someone went over budget (oops!). Do you think nobody at any point during design brought up the possible glare issue, or do you suppose everyone assumed the sun shading strategies would suffice?
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