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   IMERC | Nov 16, 2009 06:15pm | #1

   most of that building stayed together...

   look at how many panes didn't shatter...

   so just stand the think back up and drive on...

    

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming

   WOW!!! What a Ride!

   
   Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

    

   "Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"

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   reinvent | Nov 16, 2009 06:21pm | #2

   One way the builder could spin this.'Hey it's a handicap accessible one story building with lots of skylights!'

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   DavidxDoud | Nov 16, 2009 06:24pm | #3

   thanks - I've never seen an apartment building from that angle -

   I'm not sure I'm buying the official explanation as offered in the diagrams at the bottom of the article -

   maybe we could have an engineer offer an opinion?

   "there's enough for everyone"
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   gfretwell | Nov 16, 2009 06:34pm | #4

   I am not an engineer but the first thing that struck me is there was no steel in those piers. The center should have had a cage of rebar and poured solid. I build a little one story extension on my house and the pier I set needed 4 #5s with #3 stirrups every 16". This was a high rise and I only saw a little wire in a couple of the piers, most had none.

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   IMERC | Nov 16, 2009 06:42pm | #5

   hollow casson...

   small ones at that...

   they aloneshould have held the building up... 

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->

   WOW!!! What a Ride!

   Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

    

   "Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"

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   DavidxDoud | Nov 16, 2009 06:48pm | #6

   wonder if there will be difficulty finding tenants for the other buildings...<g>"there's enough for everyone"

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   doorboy | Nov 16, 2009 07:51pm | #8

   I think that's the building that they used in all of those 'Batman climbing op the side of a building" in the old TV show.

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   joeh | Nov 16, 2009 10:14pm | #13

   Found it, piled up lower left.

    

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   Joe H

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   JohnSprung2 | Nov 16, 2009 09:34pm | #12

   > I'm not sure I'm buying the official explanation as offered in the diagrams at the bottom of the article -

   Indeed not.  Obviously what happened is they saw  one of those Mike Holmes shows from that other thread, and got confused about "level" and "plumb"  ;-) 

    

   -- J.S.

    

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   joeh | Nov 16, 2009 07:50pm | #7
4. [017]  Hong Kong English-Language Newspaper Readers Have No Pubic Hair (06/30/2009)

That first headline caught my eye.

Joe H