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To: LouieFisk

Brock tower https://www.archdaily.com/879625/inside-vancouvers-brock-commons-the-worlds-tallest-timber-structured-building


61 posted on 01/14/2019 11:29:57 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: outofsalt

B”rock tower https://www.archdaily.com/879625/inside-vancouvers-brock-commons-the-worlds-tallest-timber-structured-building";

“student residence building at the University of British Columbia”

Cool. The more Canuck university-types stacked up in flammable housing, the better!


63 posted on 01/14/2019 11:46:38 AM PST by LouieFisk
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Nice, but not solid wood!

Appears that the first floor and the elevator, stairs and shearwalls, (the two tall columns) are reinforced concrete?

In case the beavers get out of hand?


68 posted on 01/14/2019 1:00:01 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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