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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
If you actually read about the engineering of this building the frustrums we're almost irrelevant structurally at the end of the day. They simply walked the regular columns in and out. The blow through us necessary because of how narrow and slablike the massing is. It has everything to do with how tall and slender the building is and nothing to with the form.
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I didn't read about it. It just occurred to me as a type of "form follows function" as it seems the damper was not adequate, and so the blow through came as a necessary after thought. You said it... "it has everything to do with how tall and slender it is" ie..It's form...
