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September 3rd 13, 02:50 PM
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What happens when your builders understand nothing about optics
On Monday, 2 September 2013 21:35:02 UTC+1, RichA wrote:
There is a building like this in Toronto, but it faces north. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675 I'd be more inclined to blame the architect, rather than the builders. Its been renamed the “Walkie Scorchie” skyscraper. It will be mostly tenanted by insurance companies, so that is handy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Fenc...Street#Tenancy 
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September 3rd 13, 03:56 PM
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What happens when your builders understand nothing about optics
On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:50:44 UTC+1, pensive hamster wrote:
On Monday, 2 September 2013 21:35:02 UTC+1, RichA wrote: There is a building like this in Toronto, but it faces north. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675 I'd be more inclined to blame the architect, rather than the builders. Ps, the architect has form: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39403349/n.../#.UiX3un-Nuew 9/30/2010 Las Vegas has a new hot spot — but it's not a nightclub. Guests at the new Vdara Hotel & Spa have complained that the glass skyscraper can magnify and reflect the sun's rays onto an area of the pool at temperatures hot enough to singe hair or melt plastic. It's a phenomenon that some hotel employees jokingly call the Vdara "death ray."
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September 4th 13, 04:44 AM
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What happens when your builders understand nothing about optics
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 18:38:48 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote: On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 10:56:47 AM UTC-4, pensive hamster wrote: On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:50:44 UTC+1, pensive hamster wrote: On Monday, 2 September 2013 21:35:02 UTC+1, RichA wrote: There is a building like this in Toronto, but it faces north. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675 I'd be more inclined to blame the architect, rather than the builders. Ps, the architect has form: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39403349/n.../#.UiX3un-Nuew 9/30/2010 Las Vegas has a new hot spot — but it's not a nightclub. Guests at the new Vdara Hotel & Spa have complained that the glass skyscraper can magnify and reflect the sun's rays onto an area of the pool at temperatures hot enough to singe hair or melt plastic. It's a phenomenon that some hotel employees jokingly call the Vdara "death ray." If it were truly parabolic and not (likely) spherical, it would be nearly evaporating people who strayed into the beam. Providing it was appropriately focussed. -- Regards, Eric Stevens
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