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more about #searstower more comments → Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Wait... 103'rd Floor. The "Windy City." Not only is this a see-thru box up in the sky... It sways a few meters in each direction??? more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Wonder Woman thinks you are all pussies. more » phlox✔: I can't be the only one around here whose first thought upon seeing this is: Damn, I want to have sex inside that! more » Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: An all glass building does not meet the Energy Code.Or the practicality code. more » Aaron Altman: At least Microsoft didn't make it. more » irishflyesq: Am I the only one who wants in on this? more » BookishLookish: "Ultimately what we're all striving for is an all-glass structure." No, thanks, I enjoy throwing stones far too much. more » Kid Twist: From a caption in the Times story: "Builders are experimenting with new materials and methods to expand the use of glass in construction." The word "e... more » NYCRockStar: Yeah, I don't like all those glass stairs in the Apple Stores so much... Feels like I'm going to be swallowed by a Jobsian nightmare at the downstairs... more » naugahydeinplainsight: Muzak choices? "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" -- Yes. "Shattered" -- No. more » Miss Anita Manbadly: And advertising will be painted on Chicago office building rooftops in 3...2...1... more » VoxPopuli: Ohh...it is so much worse without the clouds in the picture this time. So, do they have a full-time vomit mopper on staff there or what? more » contradicto: It's OK, little girl in pink, I would've pooped my pants, too. more » Private Hangnail: Looking down from a great height like that gives me the feeling that my intestines want to escape my body via my genitals. more » Trulymadlyme: I'm surprised we're not seeing more proposals on there. more » -
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The Safety of Glass
Remember that dizzying, quarter-mile-high glass observation deck that opened on the 103rd story of Chicago's Sears Tower recently? Well, the New York Times now has an interesting article about the science of making the damn thing work without killing anyone. More » -
#picoftheday
The Quarter Mile
[Two visitors stand, looking like something out of a Chris Van Allsburg book, in the new Ledge observation deck, which juts out of the 103rd story of Chicago's Sears Tower. That's 1,353 feet up. Image via Getty]
