building melts car

[Nigel-YZ1]

In my job I've dealt with a few architects and their impression of the real world. They're thick!
How about a flight of concrete steps to a door with a disabled access threshold?
Opening out windows with the hinges at the bottom?
The list is endless. Plans look pretty though...

 

[Cheddar George]

If you go to the top floor you will find Scaramanga and Nick Nack plotting the destruction of London with their cunningly disguised "Solex Agitator".

 

[Aperitif]

[quote="Nigel-YZ1, post: 2630851, member: 1010"]In my job I've dealt with a few architects and their impression of the real world. They're thick!
How about a flight of concrete steps to a door with a disabled access threshold?
Opening out windows with the hinges at the bottom?
The list is endless. Plans look pretty though...[/quote]

 

[ASC1951]

..... Rafael Vinoly is an arse (@ASC1951 please note)

Tsk tsk. That's blown your place on the RICS Council! But yes, he is.

 

[Bollo]

- and Rafael Vinoly is an arse (@ASC1951 please note)

He 'did' the new Maths department at Oxford. It's not the worst monstrosity in the city, but it has the air of a new John Lewis about it. And it's too big.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The story got air time on the lunchtime BBC news. Pics of worried looking "professionals"

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

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

Rafael Vinoly is an arse (@ASC1951 please note)

Err - evidence

 

[Wobblers]

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

Well, that means we'll be sorted if the Romans try to invade London again....

(As long as it's a sunny day!)

 

[asterix]

Clearly the car was not 'urban-proof':

 

[GrumpyGregry]

According to the Mail Online (I like slebs in bikinis, get over it) the walkie-talkie is now attacking bicycles and melting their saddles. A veritable Godzilla

 

[Yellow Fang]

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

I think it was Archimedes, but it didn't stop a Roman soldier from killing him. Archimedes was a clever chap, who invented the Archimedes Screw and Archimedes' Principle, but brawn trumps brains in these situations. Euclid, the father of geometry, was also killed by a Roman solider.

 

[Archie_tect]

It's clearly a solar-focused death-ray, who owns the building....

 

[Saluki]

Reading down the comments section, I spotted this one:

jno50 WindsorLass
03 September 2013 12:36am


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The sun didn't do it. Cars have been parking there for centuries without melting. It took a new building that concentrates the sun's rays for this to happen.


Hmmm. Cars have been parking there for Centuries eh? Bless her.

 

[ianrauk]

According to the Mail Online (I like slebs in bikinis, get over it) the walkie-talkie is now attacking bicycles and melting their saddles. A veritable Godzilla

One shopkeeper said the glare caused his doormat to start smoking and damaged a lemon

 

[Beebo]

Look guys stop joking about, this is serious stuff. I have to walk past that spot to get to the post office, Tesco Metro and Greggs! (may have to cross over the road from now on, how will I cope!)