building melts car

[dellzeqq]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/02/london-skyscraper-melted-my-car-says-motorist

some of the comments are hilarious.

for the avoidance of doubt. The 'Walkie-Talkie is a monster - far, far worse than the Strata building - and Rafael Vinoly is an arse (@ASC1951 please note)

 

[Aperitif]

That building is the toaster the City. In conjunction with the Cheese Grater next door, there could be a sea of collapsed protein matrix running through the streets of London, followed by all the rodents - a latter-day cheese Pie Piper! London will always be a melting pot. Bravo the architects!

 

[Aperitif]

Always worrying about the car. Will no one think of the ants on the pavement?

No. Londoners prefer them covered in chocolate these days - not anything else fromages past.

Otherwise, this could happen:

This is a serious architectural problem we have brewing...send for Simon, quickly - save the world (and those feeble Jaguar motor cars...) Actually, I heard that the start 'melting' point for the plastic was something near to 97 degrees Centigrade. Someone has got to get down there to 'do an egg' on the pavement @threebikesmcginty Egg, cheese, chocolate. Mmmmm.

 

[ColinJ]

If it does that to a car, what would it do to a passing cyclist!

I suggest that London's vast reserve of unemployed abseilers be employed to spray the sunny side of the building matt black.

 

[Over The Hill]

They seem to have made the worlds biggest solar cooker.


I would think the hot spot moves around with the sun and is perhaps more of a problem for the buildings in the area it reflects on. A convex mirror the size of a football pitch could do some damage.

 

[stowie]

The skyscraper's developers said they were seeking to rectify the problem which they blamed on the position of the sun at certain times of day.

"The phenomenon is caused by the current elevation of the sun in the sky. It currently lasts for approximately two hours per day, with initial modelling suggesting that it will be present for approximately two to three weeks," Land Securities and Canary Wharf said in a statement.

So the sun is to blame. I pity those poor architects. If there was only a way of calculating when and where the sun would be during the year then they would be able to avoid these idiotic mistakes. If only the sun followed a predictable track across the sky every day, every week, every month and every year then maybe the architect would be able to predict such issues in advance....

 

[srw]

City AM measured a temperature of 79.8 degreees. Local businesses have also been hit - tiles have shattered, paint has blistered, and hairdressing "product" has been damaged.

I think I shall go and visit this afternoon!

 

[Licramite]

you can't expect architects to take in such factors as position of the sun, relation to other adjacent ,buildings compatible architectural style or how your z shaped building may make it very odd internally. - No thats not what architecture is about at all.

they obviuosly need to replace the face with non-reflective glass on that elevation - but they can't as it won't be all nice and shiney if they do that. so instead thdy will build a strange and hidiuos shade over the effected parking bays. - that seams to be the normal solution.

to be fair considering the sun is this country is a bit of last resort idea.

 

[Licramite]

didn't archameades invent something like this when the romans invaded sicily to burn roman ships?

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I'm gonna quit my job and go rent out deck chairs and sell ice cream in those parking spots. Yes!!!

 

[stowie]

you can't expect architects to take in such factors as position of the sun, relation to other adjacent ,buildings compatible architectural style or how your z shaped building may make it very odd internally. - No thats not what architecture is about at all.

they obviuosly need to replace the face with non-reflective glass on that elevation - but they can't as it won't be all nice and shiney if they do that. so instead thdy will build a strange and hidiuos shade over the effected parking bays. - that seams to be the normal solution.

to be fair considering the sun is this country is a bit of last resort idea.

I like your thinking. Maybe due to the last few years of atrocious summers the architect had forgotten about the sun?

I think the building might be Dr Evil's new lair and he is blaming the sun as a cover to test out his new freakin laser beams.

 

[pplpilot]

Perhaps it was the Architects birthday, he aligned the building to cook cars from the sun on this very day! not as mad as you would think, Brunel is said to have done this with Box Tunnel. As the sun rises on 9th April it shines through...

 

[dellzeqq]

City AM measured a temperature of 79.8 degreees. Local businesses have also been hit - tiles have shattered, paint has blistered, and hairdressing "product" has been damaged.

I think I shall go and visit this afternoon!

this is getting serious. Where's Agent Hilda when you need her!!!!!!!!

 

[dellzeqq]

So the sun is to blame. I pity those poor architects. If there was only a way of calculating when and where the sun would be during the year then they would be able to avoid these idiotic mistakes. If only the sun followed a predictable track across the sky every day, every week, every month and every year then maybe the architect would be able to predict such issues in advance....

I can assure you that architects are working on this. The path of the sun will be re-aligned along a rational, measured path.......

see also Brunelleschi and the sad story of the ultramontane masons

 

[Shut Up Legs]

They seem to have made the worlds biggest solar cooker.


I would think the hot spot moves around with the sun and is perhaps more of a problem for the buildings in the area it reflects on. A convex mirror the size of a football pitch could do some damage.

You Brits really are desperate to create more warmth, aren't you?