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Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :

Well I've been back in the cubicle a couple days now, expecting to have some real nasty and tough geometry to jump into..

Now the lousy architect has decided to simplify the part of the building that I'm working on, taking it from an elliptical compound curve to just an elliptical cone shaped wall comprised of circular segments.. kinda takes the challenge out of things now and I'm bored.. I've already got the whole darn thing laid-out in 3D with AutoCAD. It looks pretty ugly too with 2D lines flyin' everywhich direction in 3D space.

I've found a good picture of the building rendering that shows my area of the building pretty well, but for some reason I cant get it to FTP from the office computer to my site just right.
Here's a link if you want to check it out.. it may or may not load completely but I gotta warn you first, it's about a 600K size file.
I'm working on the elliptical area at the bottom between the two taller structures.

http://www.stickerpimp.com/sketchbook/Lex.jpg

By the way.. the architects on this project are actually pretty good.. they design great buildings, they just don't get themselves bogged down with things like dimensions which makes it kinda tough when you have to design a window system that needs to actually fit around the structure. engineering nightmares! On the plus side, they're flexible on design so when we suggest some options they actually listen to them.

[ November 07, 2001: Message edited by: Mike Pipes ]

Posted by AdrienneMorgan (Member # 1046) on :

IT'S SO BIG!!!!

Geeze! How tall is this thing!?
It's still downloading!
So, Sticker....what part of it is yours?

Posted by Ryan Ursta (Member # 1738) on :

Holy cow Mike!! Thats an awesome looking building.
Good deal man!

Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :

A, the top floor level is about 775ft above the street. It's 55 floors tall.

My part is the curved wall at the verrry bottom between the taller buildings. I get to figure out how to make all that glass follow the angles, slopes, curves and the other end has a tunnel punched through it which I also get to design. The tunnel is for vehicles to enter/exit that courtyard area between the buildings.

The top view of the curved area looks like a giant toilet bowl, therefore we have coined this part of the building as "Satan's Toilet Bowl"

Oops, forgot to also mention this building is going up in Manhattan, the address is 731 Lexington Avenue.. for anyone near the area, the site is bordered by Lexington Ave, East 58th Street, 3rd Avenue, and East 59th Street.

If you check a map of Manhattan you will see this is not very far from "Ground Zero."

[ November 07, 2001: Message edited by: Mike Pipes ]

Posted by Ryan Ursta (Member # 1738) on :

Hey Mike my sister works at the Warburg Pincus building just a block down! In the ad agency.

Posted by AdrienneMorgan (Member # 1046) on :

Mike, I am WAY impressed!!!!

When you gonna marry my daughter?????

heehee
A

Posted by Robb Lowe (Member # 2121) on :

Take a look at this page :
http://jetsetmodern.com/architecture.htm

Check out that NY Pavilion and think what it must have been like pre-Autocad!

I hate working with glass. I put a window in my '71 Dodge Challenger once, and upon tightening the last bolt, every so gently, it exploded in my face.

It was a cold winter that year, without a drivers door glass letmetellya...

LOTS of good stuff on that page, any fan of space-age era styling will dig it.

Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :

I like when architects lay out/design a sign for their project and call out all the dimensions and the numbers add up to more than the space allowed -- happens every time. Boy, don't they hate to hear about it from a lowly sign painter!!

Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :

Yep, we're dealing with "incomplete" drawings here.. they're the latest and greatest drawings from the architect, except they lack dimensions and they're all stamped with "For design intent only, not for construction".. kinda makes it hard to draw it up and produce fabrication drawings without hard dimensions, but instead of just whining about it, we're taking the opportunity to push this project in the direction we want it to go.

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