Well, three sides of the elevator shaft are usually shear walls, that might hold back the flood? If concrete?
Water and elevators, hate each other.
9/11 cured me of going into tall buildings.
I wouldn’t want to go in the bottom floor of that building.
“”The nearly 1,400-foot tower at 432 Park Avenue, briefly the tallest residential building in the world, was the pinnacle of New York’s luxury condo boom half a decade ago, fueled largely by foreign buyers seeking discretion and big returns.””
I’ll save others the trouble of wondering what the heck city they’re talking about - should have excerpted it...
Not only that but that’s an ugly boring building to boot.
“Everybody hates each other here,”
Who doesn’t want to spend tens of millions of dollars to be surrounded by people who hate you?
They probably HATE TRUMP so much that they wouldn’t trust him building their tower. Now they see the results of their hate...
I watched a fascinating documentary about this particular building while it was under construction. An engineering marvel...
They had to pour 5ft thick concrete slab on top of the building to create more force and make the building more rigid. the concrete pour had to happen in one go. Quite a challenge to get trucks in time through the NYC traffic, unload them at the base of the building and get the concrete quickly to the top.
However, no matter how reassuring were structural engineers about building’s integrity and measures taken to prevent building swaying in wind (including extensive aerodynamic modeling in wind tunnel) , just one look at the building from a distance shows a too-elongated pencil shape that does not instill confidence that all is well with the design.