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Re: The Leaning Tower of New York

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Post by svilen_dobrev » Sat, Feb 08, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

i wonder.. what's the average fate/age of such abandoned mega-buildings? Does anyone care to blow them up, or just await them to fall? i guess it's depending on country, and tempora&mores..

There are quite a few (not that high but no-less-concrete-in-them) socialistic-unfinisheds still staying - 30years+ already - around here.. with various excuses for not demolishing, (like, it's expensive!). Some are in middle of nowhere - fine for them, but others are in the center of a city and still..

Re: The Leaning Tower of New York

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Post by twelve40 » Sun, Feb 09, 2025, 4:12 AM UTC

svilen_dobrev wrote: post #41

i wonder.. what's the average fate/age of such abandoned mega-buildings? Does anyone care to blow them up, or just await them to fall? i guess it's depending on country, and tempora&mores.. There are quite a few (not that high but no-less-concrete-in-them) socialistic-unfinisheds still staying - 30years+ already - around here.. with various excuses for not demolishing, (like, it's expensive!). Some are in middle of n…

they will probably fix it once the lawsuits settle, kind of like what they did to SF's millennium tower. The article seems to really focus on Fortis and surrounding scandals, but all the drama aside, this is the most expensive land in the world and the building doesn't seem to be doomed yet.

Re: The Leaning Tower of New York

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Post by relistan » Sun, Feb 09, 2025, 12:47 PM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #39

dayofthedaleks wrote: post #29

Assuming the neighbor to the north gave up air rights, could this be corrected with guy wires planted in the park one block away? Makes me think a kerbal citybuilder game would be fun.

The article makes it sound like there is nothing to correct. The structure is crooked, but sound. You can build a house around it.

Yes, in the article it says many structural engineers over the years have deemed it “unlikely” to have major issues.

Re: The Leaning Tower of New York

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Post by phendrenad2 » Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 9:21 AM UTC

charliebwrites wrote: post #10

Sounds like Millenium Tower in SF https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/series/millennium-...

I love how the tower has become a tourist attraction in SF. People pose near the tower's placard and pretend to push the building.

Re: The Leaning Tower of New York

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Post by bloomingeek » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:11 PM UTC

arcanemachiner wrote: post #38

Neikius wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't the series very dramatized and quite inaccurate compared to the actual history?

If anyone watches a TV show with the assumption that they are getting an accurate view of history, then I wish them luck in life, since they will probably need it.

Tell that to the people who were displaced because of the accident, which of course, is proven truth. The last part of your statement is petty, based on ignorance of how life itself is extremely difficult to report after the fact when facts are so easily denied.

Re: The Leaning Tower of New York

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Post by bloomingeek » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:14 PM UTC

lores wrote: post #40

arcanemachiner wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anyone watches a TV show with the assumption that they are getting an accurate view of history, then I wish them luck in life, since they will probably need it.

That particular series was presented with very heavy emphasis on how "accurate" it was to real events, though, and many, many people thought it a documentary.

Documentary or not, the photos credits ran at the end of the last episode cannot be denied.

Re: The Leaning Tower of New York

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 7:16 PM UTC

TheJoeMan wrote: post #28

mschuster91 wrote: post #21

> The process promised to save the company six million dollars What an absurd case of penny pinching.

As someone in the medical device field, the concept of marketing/selling something before it exists is wild, explicitly illegal in the USA per the FDA. But here people have written checks for $400k off a sketch of a building. This causes 2 things: 1)enormous pressure to “ship it” on a less-than-ideal timeline. 2)the bean-counters’ perspective gets twisted since they got the “profits” up front, every additional dollar…

> the concept of marketing/selling something before it exists is wild

Literally restaurants. Or any service, for that matter.