A One-Storey Skyscraper.

1. Chris
   May 21st, 2007 at 1:19 pm

   first!

   *ahem*...

   and in case of fire they'll provide escape-bobsleigh!

2. Anthony
   May 21st, 2007 at 1:29 pm

   It's called a parking ramp.

3. Dave A
   May 21st, 2007 at 1:41 pm

   Its not a skyscraper, but the Guggenheim museum in New York was built that way. One of the coolest buildings ever.

4. Jon Anderson
   May 21st, 2007 at 2:07 pm

   I would be very tempted to release a bunch of bouncy balls at the top.

5. Jocelyn
   May 21st, 2007 at 2:07 pm

   Lot's of malls built in the 70's in Santiago, Chile, have this form. These guys have a nice post on the topic:
   http://posthegemony.blogspot.com/2007/04/mall.html

6. dd
   May 21st, 2007 at 2:19 pm

   At Georgia State University, one of the buildings started life as a parking garage, so it is built kind of like this.

   I was only in the building one time, so don't remember much about it, but it was frustrating trying to figure out what floor I was on and where the classroom was. That was probably less a design problem than a labeling problem though, I suppose.

7. Jeff
   May 21st, 2007 at 3:34 pm

   The Seattle Public Library (designed by Koolhaus) is also this way.

8. Mike Silverman
   May 21st, 2007 at 3:44 pm

   The Seattle library is like this, about 10 stories worth of spiraling bookshelves, you can walk all the way to the top without ever climbing a stair.

9. CheeseDuck
   May 21st, 2007 at 6:15 pm

   Why is it spelled storey?

10. James Schend
    May 21st, 2007 at 8:58 pm

    I like when people post "how feasible is X" without spending the few minutes it would take to see if it already exists.

    I actually came here to post about the Seattle Public Library, but I see I was beaten to the punch.

    "How feasible is this: a website that has posted stories and you can write comments on them!"

11. Anthony
    May 22nd, 2007 at 12:13 am

    So I actually bothered to read the article, and it was great. It's so poorly thought out, it's hilarious. People have devoted more brain power to how they wipe. And the best part is all the comments that say it's brilliant and try to add ideas.

    From the page:
    "A small issue: Those who are good with numbers will immediately notice that the distance to walk from the ground office to the top office at 36,000 degrees (therefore an equivalent of 100 storeys) is 20 kilometers (twelve miles)."

    Why, that hardly even bears mentioning.

12. dewek
    May 22nd, 2007 at 8:16 am

    is that some kind of pun, or did you spell 'story' wrong in the title?

13. Miss Cellania
    May 22nd, 2007 at 8:30 am

    That's the way it's spelled. Try Google define:storey as compared to define:story that's what I did.

14. Miss Cellania
    May 22nd, 2007 at 8:31 am

    Of course, then I mispelled it in the "story"! I'll correct that.

15. Henrik
    May 22nd, 2007 at 10:51 am

    Old news...
    We did that in Denmark 370 years ago
    http://www.rundetaarn.dk/engelsk/facts_om_rundetaarn.htm

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16. Kristian
    May 22nd, 2007 at 11:28 am

    The University of Maryland considered one such design for it's Performing Arts Center in the 1990's. The building was designed by I.M. Pei and was far and away the best design...and the most expensive. After undergoing the usual bureaucratic nonsense they went with another, much more pedestrian design. Too bad.

17. ted
    May 22nd, 2007 at 11:56 am

    I guess people couldn't have chairs with wheels on them, or every time they pushed away from their sloping desks, they'd roll away.

    And it is spelled "storey" as in "second storey". But it can also be "story".

    And if you thought that was confusing, in Italian it's spelled "piano".

18. fiona
    May 22nd, 2007 at 4:47 pm

    they have dorms at penn that are built like this with optional elevators too. the hallways are crazy slanted.

19. contraryMary
    May 23rd, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    I'm not moving into the top floor unless there's an elevator. carring boxes/groceries all the way up... &

    PS This was a skit on Monty Python were the model breaks and the building leans {think Pisa tower} at a tilt then catches fire. Still better than the building kept up by hypnosis.

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