Been around for almost 90 years.
Posted on 03/04/2019 7:13:33 AM PST by simpson96
A pair of cracked windows have been discovered at San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower. It’s another stroke of bad luck for the city’s newest architectural marvels.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that local Department of Building Inspection officials confirmed the presence of cracked window panes in the 61-story, Pelli Clarke Pelli-designed tower last week. The cracks were discovered along the inner panes of a dual-glazed, south-facing window on the 12th floor and a similar east-facing window on the 14th floor of the tower.
A spokesperson for the building’s owner told CBS in San Francisco that because the cracks are located on the inside of the window assembly, the damage poses no danger of falling glass. The cause for the cracks has not been discovered, but plans are underway to replace the affected windows in the coming weeks.
The Salesforce Tower opened in January 2018 and is currently San Francisco’s tallest building. At 1,070 feet in height, the building is considered the second tallest structure in the western United States behind Los Angeles’s Wilshire Grand tower.
The discovery of cracked windows at Salesforce comes months after broken window panes were discovered in the Handel Architects-designed Millennium Tower just one block over. The 58-story tower has settled over 18 inches on one side and is also leaning by 14 inches, according to recent reports.(snip)
Another new San Francisco project, the Transbay Transit Center, located at the base of the Salesforce Tower, remains closed nearly six months after a pair of cracked structural beams were discovered in that building. A permanent fix for the damaged beams is currently underway, though a reopening date for the transit center has yet to be announced.
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“As far as I know, the Salesforce Tower building is anchored to bedrock and probably not at any risk of collapsing. “
Probably true, but it’s still in the “flatlands” part of downtown SF which a hundred years ago used to be part of SF Bay.
I understand the vertical orientation but I don’t understand the blob-like form of so many recent skyscrapers.
SF has been a heart-breaker for several decades.
The time I was there from 1994-2016 was fun as my wife and I were starting a family. Have been gone 3 years - on a recent visit wondered how in the world I could have ever enjoyed that place.
ping
another glass man has provided a very good discussion of the glass involved.
I once met a guy who installs windows on skyscrapers in New York. He said he makes a LOT of money for it. Whatever they pay, it wouldn’t be enough for me to do that job!
Been around for almost 90 years.
More so than the one in Winston-Salem, NC?
http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/100-north-main-street/9790
I stayed in the Vdara hotel right behind there when it first opened. The Harmon Hotel was actually never completed to its full floor height. They found at when they got to floor 26 that they had not engineered enough support in the structure for it to go to its 50-60 story original design.
The Vdara is around 58 floors. The Cosmopolitan right in front of it I believe is 60 floors. I stayed on the top floor of the Vdara overlooking the Bellagio. It was quite a view looking north right over the Bellagio with a big TRUMP hotel looking south at you.
don’t tell me that water squirts out of the top of that obvious phallic symbol. That would be just too much.
I can tell you that with a straight face. It’s a fire hose nozzle:
“Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, offering panoramic views over the city and the bay. The tower, in the city’s Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit’s bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2008.
The art deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard. The interior features fresco murals in the American Social Realism style, painted by 25 different on-site artists and their numerous assistants, plus two additional paintings installed after creation off-site.
Also known as the Coit Memorial Tower, it was dedicated to the volunteer firemen who had died in San Francisco’s five major fires. Although an apocryphal story claims that the tower was designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle due to Coit’s affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, the resemblance is coincidental.”
FReepers are amazing.
Ok, 22 years should have gotten you off to a good start. It does sound as though you may have spent a bit longer than usual in the honeymoon phase, but that was probably helpful. {;^]
Now consigned to memory and recalled as the good old days.
Concrete doesn’t ‘bend’ or ‘give’ ... at a certain point it ‘explodes’...
Salesforce Tower
https://www.concreteconstruction.net/projects/commercial-industrial/salesforce-tower_o
Once completed, this 61-story, 1,070-foot skyscraper will have used close to 100,000 cubic yards of concrete. For the mat foundation, more than 130 ready-mix concrete trucks from Cemex plants in the San Francisco region performed an 18-hour pour to supply 7,300 of the approximately 12,000 cubic yards of concrete required for the job. This was the second largest mat pour in the history of the city.
I’m surprised there’s still a statue of Columbus in SF.
“The 58-story tower has settled over 18 inches on one side and is also leaning by 14 inches, according to recent reports.(snip)”
That’s why I had a soil test done before having my house built...so that we’d know what kind of foundation to design. Surprised they didn’t consider it (or ignored it) for these buildings.
...and no, my house is still not ‘leaning’
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