Thanks all for your suggestions for my trip to Chicago.
I posted individual thanks into the original thread to those who had offered suggestions and tips for the trip.
Here’s a post to my chicago pics on Picasa, if anyone is interested. http://picasaweb.google.com/brucet999/Chicago2009#
Among other things, my daughter and I tried out the glass boxes that jut out from the observation floor of the Sears/Willis Tower.
Edited 9/15/2009 12:53 am by brucet9
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Hey Bruce - I just walked out in the same box about a month ago. No big deal, right?
Jeff
Hah! I knew that the glass was a couple of inches thick and would easily support the weight of several people. I saw several people standing there before I stepped into the box. Still I could not help tentatively sticking one foot in and testing the glass as though I were stepping onto a frozen pond without knowing how thick the ice was.How dumb is that?BruceT
IIRC the floor is two layers of 3/4" tempered or similar. The best part is the enhanced view. The worst part is taking 45-60 minutes to get up there ...
Just looking at someone else doing it freaks me out... I can't wait to try it myself!
Tu stultus esRebuilding my home in Cypress, CAAlso a CRX fanatic!
Look, just send me to my drawer. This whole talking-to-you thing is like double punishment.
The structural integrity of the glass is not what freaks me out it's the cantilever that gives me the creeps. Looks like the structure is mostly hung from the top where I see the steel tube on the interior and the glass side panels appear to support the floor.
They are actually retractable so that the window washing equipment can roll past them - they hang from added steel beams that extend well back into the Observation Deck floor. You can still see all of this because they haven't really figured out how to design the ceiling around the rolling apparatus.
Jeff
I was so busy looking out that I never looked up to see how they hooked those glass boxes onto the building. They're so popular that they are adding a 4th this year.BruceT
Yup. They're hanging on rollers from added steel beams.