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minus-squareStefen Auris@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoWas it designed to look like it could collapse in a strong breeze?
minus-squarepdxfed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoThis is a better angle that shows some of the tensile strength https://www.dreamstime.com/three-vertical-buildings-carry-surfboard-top-marina-bay-sands-hotel-singapore-luxury-hotel-artsience-museum-las-vegas-sands-image239115513 I’m still trying to wrap my head around how engineers must have had to angle everything (floors, ceilings, interior walls) so that occupants on the “slanted” tower buildings don’t have the perception their building is a leaning prop…because it is.
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoWell . . .it’s certainly sunnier in that one.
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agolol Apparently, there was a lot of push back when it was first proposed, but now it has become kind of an icon of Singapore.
Was it designed to look like it could collapse in a strong breeze?
This is a better angle that shows some of the tensile strength https://www.dreamstime.com/three-vertical-buildings-carry-surfboard-top-marina-bay-sands-hotel-singapore-luxury-hotel-artsience-museum-las-vegas-sands-image239115513
I’m still trying to wrap my head around how engineers must have had to angle everything (floors, ceilings, interior walls) so that occupants on the “slanted” tower buildings don’t have the perception their building is a leaning prop…because it is.
Well . . .it’s certainly sunnier in that one.
lol Apparently, there was a lot of push back when it was first proposed, but now it has become kind of an icon of Singapore.