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Old Posted Apr 2, 2019, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Arts View Post
Not only is it a very stale design, that sketch mostly illustrates he has very little understanding of structural engineering - all four of the "towers" he drew have their centre of gravity entirely over what would be the playing surface, floor or rink of the facility underneath. That would be a very grandiose (Billion$) build if it was to someone support the load of those towers without a forest of columns going through the seating areas. How can someone that has devoted that many decades to this vision not have thought through this already? It could be built but who on earth would ever agree to pay for it?
A very good point. How laughably inept!
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