It's supposedly a work of art. Kind of cool from an engineering point of view but it must have cost an awful lot of money and is really quite useless. I guess they did it because they could.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hktO3OdOPbs
Rotating outer wall on a building in Liverpool
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Evan as a so called work of art it's just a dumbasss thing to spend time on.
Mmmm make it a challange for those who want to commit suicice? Can you get out teh gap before it closes again??
Hopefully, the motor will break on the coldest day next winter while it's "open" and then they'll realize what a colossal waste of money that was!
Wont happen. They'll just get the wage slaves to manually close it..
The University of South Carolina (The Original USC) built a high-rise building with a rotating restaurant on the top floor when I was still a student there in the late 60's.
JackMG Wrote:
The University of South Carolina (The Original USC) built a high-rise building with a rotating restaurant on the top floor when I was still a student there in the late 60's.
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I remember dat
The mechanism came from a structure at a world's fair (in Seattle IIRC) that was torn down after the fair ended.
There are many things that could be rotated in Liverpool but that wall is the last thing.
Rain in England yes and Liverpool has the 10x rate.
Nothing like letting a little smog in during the middle of the work day.
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