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more about #skyscraper more comments → NurseDave: Do they really need to be "advertising" at this point? more » OMG! Ponies!: People have been screwing up the spelling of Pittsburgh for 100 years now. more » GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday: Hrmmm, I wonder who I have to pay off to get it to spell GitEmSteveDave.com..... more » katieoh: they were probably trying to spell "picksburgh." that's how it usually gets pronounced by pittsburghers. more » Captian_Caveman: Don't worry they "Fixed" it now the building is flashing "TPEBTSAURGH" more » rjp: This is my rebuttal: Pitetsbkrrh is the native spelling of the name of the city. Pittsburgh is the Americanized spelling. Why must we force our American culture on America... more » Kaiser-Machead: This reminds me of the animated wrapping paper in A Gift of Gold.... %3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideosearch%3Fq%3Dgolden%2520wrapping%2520paper%2520a... more » GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday: Uh, have we learned nothing of exterior support steel buildings after 9/11? Also, I'd hate to be around this building when the sun is out. MY CORNEAS! more » Software_Goddess: Sexy. How do I book reservations? I'd love to be the first to sleep here. more » Monty: It is a mistake to question anything architectural, I recognize, especially when we have monstrosities like the EMP in my backyard. (Really, Paul - a... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Why are all the really cool outrageously expensive buildings in Abu Dubai these days? more » gkimmina: not a botanist, though I play one on TV, but why do you need light bulbs for night time photosynthesis more » Kaiser-Machead: Someone must've been sitting in his car, staring at the pine-scented tab hanging on the rear view mirror and just shouted out "Eureka!" more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Why wouldn't you use a hedge instead of a tree? more » Monty: The problem of CO2 is a lot more complicated than just putting clutters of trees in certain areas to suck up the carbon. First, that power plant that... more » -
#oops
Pittsburgh Skyscraper's Famous Morse Code Signal Actually Spells "Pitetsbkrrh"
Pittsburgh, PA's 33-story Grant Building famously spells out the name of the city in Morse Code so brightly it can be seen for over 100 miles. Except it doesn't actually spell Pittsburgh, but "Pitetsbkrrh." Eep. More » -
#architecture
This Is What the Most Leaning Building In the World Looks Like
This is the Capital Gate, a 525-foot tall tower that leans 18 degrees to the west, 14 degrees more than the Tower of Pisa. And unlike many of these spectacular projects, this one is actually well underway in Abu Dhabi, as you can see in this image: More » -
#architecture
CO2 Skyscraper Scrubs Away Smog With 400 Trees
The idea is actually very simple: construct a tower fitted with 200-400 trees in areas of high pollution. Basically, it works like a gigantic filter—scrubbing smog and converting CO2 into oxygen. More » -
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#milehigh
5250-Foot Tower Will Make Burj Dubai Look Like Pencil
Sure, the Burj Dubai tower looks amazingly tall, but it's final height— currently projected to be 2,300 feet— is less than half that of a new building planned for Saudi Arabia. It's going to be 5,250 feet high. Yup, that's just 30 feet short of a mile tall: taller than anything under construction anywhere, and making it easily the world's tallest building. Think they should stick a TV antenna on the top and go for that extra 30 feet? I sure do. More »
