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architecture Article 1803 words 4 comments. licensed design professionals, real estate industry and its political. Not exceptional, though, its purpose is to generate jobs, profits, taxes, with safety at the bottom, camouflaged by complicity of municipal and state agencies. I was under the impression that these buildings came about because of some engineering breakthrough but: The downside to life in a supertall tower: Leaks, creaks, breaks design. Conclusion, the glamorous, very expensive, supertall,widely celebrated and advertized, is not safe for occupancy.
Now, correspondence between residents, some of the richest and most influential people in the world, reveal thorny arguments over how to remedy the problems without tanking property values. Not much to say about this but what the fuck. According to a recent datamine, remasters of Half-Life 2 and its episodic sequels will be coming to Steam thanks to a team of fans. And of course its all glorious until the teleport network goes down and. Fan-Made Half-Life 2 Remastered Collection Leaks. Stefanos Chen, The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks, New York Times, May 4, 2021. The disputes at 432 Park also highlight a rarely seen view of New York’s so-called Billionaire’s Row, a stretch of supertall towers near Central Park that redefined the city skyline, and where the identities of virtually all the buyers were concealed by shell companies. The down side to life in a supertall tower: Leaks, creaks and breaks, oh my. But there is a patttern of fraud, delivering the housing much later than agreed upon date, delivering really poor quality of construction, not taking maintenance seriously at all because it is just more cost incurred to the developer and so on.īut the article has some gems like this one: The condo board at the supertall NYC tower 432 Park Avenue, one of the most expensive addresses in the world, is suing the developers for 125 million in damages, citing multiple floods, faulty elevators, 'intolerable' noise caused by building sway, and an electrical explosion in June the second in three years that knocked out power to residents, according to a lawsuit. for the expanding middle class (in wealth at least, I don’t know about the absolute numbers).
Here developers are busy erecting housing societies, apartments etc. During the beginning of the article my thought was the most common one which is that the problem is just the same one that plagues India but on a different scale.