'Worst building in the history of mankind' gets a face lift

reuters ^ | 9/7/09

[Boiling Pots]

**AMERICANS ARE OUT AND ABOUT, MIXING WITH THE CUBANS EVERY DAY**

This is exactly why we need to lift the travel restrictions and embargo. That will bring the regime down faster than anything else.

[Steve Van Doorn]

"Clinton Lie-brary"

looks like a giant trailer

[Erasmus]

One of the “seven sisters” in Moscow, each having similar architecture.

[Erasmus]

1. Ahh, the corncobs. Been in those once or twice.

2. Frank Gehry, obviously. But forgot where and what.

3. Brasilia???

[Erasmus]

Actually, it belongs to Mrs. Giant.

[count-your-change]

Paint it yellow and give Ronald McDonald nightmares!

I think the inscription says in Latin, “Hey, we got a deal on arches”.

[driftdiver]

“This is exactly why we need to lift the travel restrictions and embargo. That will bring the regime down faster than anything else”

Probably not, the current generation of Cubans know nothing but the entitlement mentality. Older Cubans are much different.

[Joe Boucher]

Great place to purchase a kidney or heart.

[Ann Archy]

We used to live by that ugly thing in Seattle and now we live by that ugly Marina bldg in Chicago. Where is that other one so I know where our next move will be to?

[Ann Archy]

LOL!! The TRAILER IS the UGLIEST! But the MOST APPROPOS!!

[stayathomemom]

Reminds me of “Expo-67 Montreal”.

[calex59]

It looks like a space ship out of a 1950s sci fi movie!

[calex59]

My thoughts exactly when I saw it, “Hey a large Mobile Home up on blocks!”

[Boiling Pots]

Castro and the Cuban regime probably enjoy about a 5% approval rating from any crop of Cubans. I have been there, I know.

[Eye of Unk]

I still think its a disguised long range missile gantry.

[bert]

There is the matter of wind loading.

A glass and aluminum curtain wall is designed to withstand the load of wind pressing it in to the building. The connectors to the structure transfer vertical load,the weight, back to the concrete structure.

The article says one side is left open. If there is a strong wind through the building, those same connectors must carry the uniform outward force produced by the wind. That is, a good wind from the other side might just peel all that glass and aluminum off the side of the building.

The vertical shear stress in the connector fasteners is a different thing than the stress of the wind pushing outward

[patton]

Good point.

[Clemenza]

That would be Brasilia: UGLIEST capital in the world.

[Clemenza]

1. Yep. Last time I was there was for steak at Smith and Wollensky. Provided the cover for a cool Wilco album, however.

2. EMP in Seattle. I used to live but three blocks from that monstrosity.

3. That is indeed the Brazilian Congress building in Brasilia. A damn shame the city wasn't built when it was originally intended to in the 19th Century.

[Clemenza]

Ugliest building in Chicago. Makes the Daley Center look charming.

BTW: Am I the only one who thinks that City Hall in said city looks like a block fortress with it's back turned to the city on all sides?