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    Inside the Mind of Norman Foster

    Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail

    World's Biggest Building Coming To Moscow: Looks Like It Will Be Christmas Year-Round
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    08/31/09

    In reply to Inside the Mind of Norman Foster

    Norman Foster peaked in 1984 with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building (6th sketch) yet he's done so much great work since (just go to [www.fosterandpartners.com] and let it run); it shows how amazing that early building is. There's a three-volume Japanese book about every door handle and piece of glass in the HKSB building.

    The gherkin at ground level is otherworldly, though from scenes in Woody Allen's Match Point it looks like the office layouts are a letdown. Foster's mega-airports in the far East are famous but his earlier Stansted airport (above) is simple and pure, a 6x6 grid of those splayed towers, inside and out.

    @RichasB, Foster has never done a slab of concrete building, and he put gardens in Commerzbank. He's more artistic engineer than architect as artist.
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    08/30/09

    In reply to Inside the Mind of Norman Foster
    I'm a fan of Sir Norman Foster too but as much as I love the majority of his work, I absolutely detest the Swiss Re building in London.
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    08/30/09

    @Kid-A:
    one of the first truly paremtricly designed buildings.

    Its a mathematical masterpiece, but not to everyones taste.
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    08/30/09

    @DUOPHONIX.com: It is to my taste. Well, insofar as I love me some gherkins.
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    02/11/09

    In reply to Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail
    You know, that "before" and "after" comparison? Re-bar, schmee-bar. I'm thinking there's some kind of high-concept cosmic prank going on here. Doesn't the "before" version look just like two tall stacks of casino chips? And the "after", like those same stacks greatly reduced from a little bit of typical casino play?


    I'd say the universe, laughing its ethereal head off, is just imposing a little karmic payback on Las Vegas.

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    02/11/09

    In reply to Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail
    what they don't tell you is the improperly installed rebar is in floors 4-19.
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    02/11/09

    In reply to Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail


    Get this through your head you motherfucker, you! You only exist out here because of me! That's the only reason! Without *me*, you, personally, every fuckin' architectural firm around'll take a piece of your fuckin' ass! Then where you gonna go? You're fuckin' warned! Don't ever go over my fuckin' head again! You motherfucker, you.

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    02/11/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: You know I really enjoyed that movie the first time I saw it, when it was called Goodfellas...
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    02/11/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate: lol that's a scene from Casino.
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    02/11/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I know. That was the joke.
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    02/11/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate: Ah, well played :O
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    02/11/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Yours was much better played. I was just riding your coattails on that one.
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    02/11/09

    In reply to Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail
    'The hotel, called the Harmon, was just essentially "kneecapped."'


    That statement would have had a double meaning thirty years ago...

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    02/11/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate: The building wouldn't have been the only thing 'capped..
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    02/11/09

    In reply to Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail
    Convenient.

    Construction Costs Saved + Future Litigation Monies paid out by GC insurance > Initial Value of completed building
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    02/11/09

    @SeattleTed: .. and all at a time when Vegas is going bust because of the economy. Makes you wonder whether someone did something on purpose, no?
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    02/11/09

    In reply to Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail
    rebar is installed in many areas of the foundation, floors, anywhere that concrete really is. How you incorrectly install rebar is a mystery to me. Only if the bidding contractor horred himself out and just did a shitty job, i dont know why they wouldnt just start over, b/c rebar is put in the intial stages. they would have know immediately. MY GUESS.... THE ECONOMY. Not rebar.
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    02/11/09

    @SilenceisGolden: It could be both. Maybe they used half the rebar because of the economy?
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    02/11/09

    In reply to Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail
    These guys didn't happen to work on that hotel in Beijing, did they?
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    02/11/09

    In reply to Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail
    This would never have happened if they went with Art Vandalay's plans instead..
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    02/11/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate: I guess I'm rusty on my Seinfeld trivia because I though Art was George's architect alter ego.
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    02/11/09

    In reply to Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail
    Why wouldn't they just blow it up and start over using some money from the government, It's not that great anyway from the picture.
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    02/11/09

    @Hiroak: Not that great? How could you not fall in love with a building shaped like a Lady's Speed Stick antiperspirant?
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    02/11/09

    In reply to Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail
    What else did the improperly install?
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    02/11/09

    @VANGOR:The foundation, the floors, the walls, the contractors, the property, y'know standard union job.
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    02/11/09

    In reply to Planned 49-Story Vegas Hotel Gets Kneecapped to 28 Floors Because of Construction Fail
    'epic fail'
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    @[x7productions]: I've never seen erectile dysfunction on such a grand scale...
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