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I really think our building aesthetics could learn a lot from whatever you might call this style / iranian mid rises vs BLUE GLASS AND STEEL MAXXING
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Philip Oldfield
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Elegant new 13-storey timber office building by Tzannes in Sydney
All timber and steel elements will be crafted for future disassembly and reuse
architectureau.com/articles/nsws-
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"...The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Center for Building in North America..."
You mean that an organization with an explicit goal of reforming building codes would fund a study finding that...building codes need reform!
Can't wait for the Pew/Philip Morris study showing that
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having double stairwells takes up more space and costs more money yeah, but its also worth mentioning the effects it has on apartment design and layout.
e.g. the hallway that splits buildings in half connecting those stairwells severely limits the options for windows and airflow
What if the single staircase gets blocked by fire? Isn't this just the cost of additional safety by redundancy?
The point of double stair is redundancy and higher - so you say it actually never was useful to have those properties? (Or not often enough that it would be worth requiring them)
why do they do this and why are those reasons less important than decreasing the cost of housing?
This is also a reason why almost all American apartment complexes have 1 long corridor with apartments on its sides, and all floor plans have windows at only one side. Almost all floor plans are identical in American apartments.
good luck getting out of the single stair mid rise when the fent junkies living at the bottom of the stairwell pass out after lighting their poorly contained bonfire.
this is why we need 2 stairwells here.
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This is one of those interesting things where the threshold is pretty sharp. I can beat every 4 year old in the world at chess, with 5 year olds it's unclear and depends on the current batch of prodigies, and with 6 year olds I don't stand even the slightest shadow of a chance.
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what's the oldest Magnus Carlsen you think you could beat at chess?
Did you guys know that the word "daily" in the Lord's Prayer is a wild-guess translation of a Greek word found nowhere else but in the Gospels, and no one actually knows what it means???
a couple points, I guess:
1. Elon Musk is a good engineering manager; he knows intuitively what's possible for what cost
2. He's a bad every other kind of manager
3. More recently he started using drugs and that should handicap your predictions of his future performance
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Will Stancil
@whstancil
The important thing to realize about Elon Musk is that he became the richest guy in history essentially because he was an internet meme - “real-life Tony Stark!” - so the value of any company he touched went through the roof. The joke is that he then turned out to be a dolt. x.com/moreperfectus/…
being annoyed is the price you pay for community.
it means having guests when you'd rather be alone. it means letting someone live with you even when they get on your nerves. it means showing up for events that you'd rather not go to. it means turning the other cheek.