It’s still ugly.
Ugly lite. On Wed, our Dear Leader will present ugly lite to us.
If you think this looks bad, wait till you see Obama’s presidential library
It would be an interesting building in a city like Tokyo or NY, but as the only tall building in a city it looks like crap..
I bet it get one star review by Priceline.com users LOL!
There is the matter of wind loading.
A glass and aluminum curtain wall is designed to withstand the load of wind pressing it in to the building. The connectors to the structure transfer vertical load,the weight, back to the concrete structure.
The article says one side is left open. If there is a strong wind through the building, those same connectors must carry the uniform outward force produced by the wind. That is, a good wind from the other side might just peel all that glass and aluminum off the side of the building.
The vertical shear stress in the connector fasteners is a different thing than the stress of the wind pushing outward