London skyscraper melts car
 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-0...is-car/4932320

Hard to believe that the architect could have been unaware of the effects of a concave mirror focusing the sun on a small area.

There'll be a queue of sunbathers down there today....you see :)

The skyscrapers.....are revolting!

I like the bit where they blame the sun for the problem...:o

Cheers

Gary

Set up solar panels across the street and harness that energy.:up:
Otherwise, blame it on your plastic car.

Yeah and then say the problem will clear up in a couple weeks. Not mentioning that it would come back twice a year. :doh:

There was (and may still be, for all I know) a similar problem with a landmark building in Los Angeles, the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The hall was designed by Frank Gehry and is clad in a series of sweeping curves of stainless steel. The cladding was originally highly polished, but the surfaces acted like those solar "ovens" one can buy for camping. Buildings nearby, particularly pricey condominiums, were subject to concentrated reflected heat from the hall and resulted in some of the sort of damage done by the London skyscraper. The solution was finally found by using grinders to create a matte finish on some of the sufaces, much to the dismay of architectural purists...


The Disney Concert Hall:


http://www.gothereguide.com/Images/U...rt_Hall_LA.jpg



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http://media.desura.com/images/mods/...smTower_03.jpg

Soon...

Architects often show a remarkable disregard for both the people living inside and outside their buildings.:shifty:

It's a terrible newspaper anyway. :sunny:

Source

Reportedly enterprising journalist used that Walkie Scorchie's death ray to fry an egg.

EDIT: for egg part... Video :haha:

Focal Point FTW

:haha: Not as bad as The News of the World of course.

I watched that and my first thought was "I didn't see him fry the egg. I only saw him take the egg out of the pan". Then I thought that it would be hard to fool all those people standing around, so it's probably real.

My second thought was "92.6 degrees? That's hot, but not hot enough to..."

Wait...Celsius? :o That's almost 200 degrees Fahrenheit! He's right, they do need to get into the shade!

Somewhere an architect is getting his posterior chewed on.:har:

That's 'gluteal mastication' in the wolfpack kama sutra!:arrgh!:

Slow news day in the UK.

That's alright then, the affected businesses across the street are now absolutely fine - what business wouldn't want a special screen covering their windows?

Not proper enough, I'd say, and I really think it's unlikely that a model would've undergone testing for sunny summer days, or any for that matter.

I'm sure if the designer had a kid it would've been spotted, maybe he did but just kept schtum for the laughs. :)


Source - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23957986

Only ever seen that done abroad (Iran) never in the UK :o

Ha, you've never worked with architects have you. Even if they make mistakes, it's the contractors job to find all those mistakes during the bidding and building process. Simply, if it's a problem now, forget blaming the architect or think he'll be the one that has to pay to correct the issue, the contractor will. Course, he'll try to pass the blame and get sub-contractors to correct the issue at their cost.

Ha, yes I have, on several occasions. And yes the engineering contractors should have spotted the obvious. Who pays for the fix? The building tenants of course. I'm just expressing surprise that front the architect on no one looked at it and said "Hey that looks like a solar concentrator."