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Sunday, December 14, 2025
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432 Park Avenue, New York
One of my all-time favorite buildings, aesthetically-speaking. My heart bleeds for the troubles the people living there have with the swaying and the water leaks. -NOT-
1 + 5- Sleek buildings 2- Shaped like dildos I’ve shoved up my ass ! :) 3- The Jetsons come to mind. 4- Looks like the lit geometric facade at Saks Fifth Avenue. 5- There’s a high rise residential building in San Francisco that has the same problems and is also sinking ! Not to mention the collapsed high rise in Miami. High rise dumps with outrageous prices, rents, insurance and maintenance costs. And that’s luxury living ? No thanx ! -CA jock
Seems to me, that structurally, any building that is tall and completely symmetrcical, will always have issues with sway and such. That variable (wind loads) were probably designed into them as to resistance and such. Might that be one reason many of the more recent "tallest buildings" not be based on "squares", but with gentle curves and offsets?
To some, "luxury living" means being "above the fray" of common life, literally. Higher to get the best views of things, just like a cat sleeping on cars and other places above ground level. OR somebody who perceives themselves as being "all powerful"? But in a "city that never sleeps", the only place to put more people is in taller buildings. Not my version of "existence", unfortunately.
When I see some of the multi-floor apartments in some of those fancy buildings, I am always amazed at how expensive they tend to be. Great homes, as a "place to be", with many upscale amenities, but no real "green space" nearby . . . just other people. That's just me. NOT to diminish that lifestyle or the people that can afford it, just that that is not my choice. BTAIM
It always amazes me how much great engineering went into those buildings, many built up to 100 years ago, before computers and such. Of course, we always never see the "behind the walls" things that allowed those renovations to happen or what they cost. Keeps money in circulation, tax bases inflated, and all of those things, too.
1 + 5- Sleek buildings
ReplyDelete2- Shaped like dildos I’ve shoved up my ass ! :)
3- The Jetsons come to mind.
4- Looks like the lit geometric facade at Saks Fifth Avenue.
5- There’s a high rise residential building in San Francisco that has the same problems and is also sinking ! Not to mention the collapsed high rise in Miami.
High rise dumps with outrageous prices, rents, insurance and maintenance costs. And that’s luxury living ? No thanx !
-CA jock
Des miracles de verre et de ciment,
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Image 2- comme La Défense à Paris.
- Beau Mec à Deauville
Seems to me, that structurally, any building that is tall and completely symmetrcical, will always have issues with sway and such. That variable (wind loads) were probably designed into them as to resistance and such. Might that be one reason many of the more recent "tallest buildings" not be based on "squares", but with gentle curves and offsets?
ReplyDeleteTo some, "luxury living" means being "above the fray" of common life, literally. Higher to get the best views of things, just like a cat sleeping on cars and other places above ground level. OR somebody who perceives themselves as being "all powerful"? But in a "city that never sleeps", the only place to put more people is in taller buildings. Not my version of "existence", unfortunately.
When I see some of the multi-floor apartments in some of those fancy buildings, I am always amazed at how expensive they tend to be. Great homes, as a "place to be", with many upscale amenities, but no real "green space" nearby . . . just other people. That's just me. NOT to diminish that lifestyle or the people that can afford it, just that that is not my choice. BTAIM
It always amazes me how much great engineering went into those buildings, many built up to 100 years ago, before computers and such. Of course, we always never see the "behind the walls" things that allowed those renovations to happen or what they cost. Keeps money in circulation, tax bases inflated, and all of those things, too.