This is skyscraper page after all so have you actually worked, or possibly lived in a tall building? I have never lived in a skyscraper but I have worked in two,
the infamous Portland Building designed by Michael Graves and Portland's own Nakatomi Plaza, the Lloyd Center Tower, a fine 80's glass box.
photo by Cacophony. photo by Steve Morgan
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Portland!! Where young people formerly went to retire.
I worked for Capgemini back then, but they eventually left the tower for some different offices.
It was cool. I liked it. It gave me the opportunity to visit the offices of a bunch of other towers at la Défense and enjoy the views.
That's how I got to like the business district, though I'd like it to grow more mixed-use now.
When I was in college I cooked 1.5 years in a restaurant on the 46th floor of a building in Seattle. Interesting point: During high winds I didn't notice anything in the kichen, but the dining room dividers that hung from the ceiling would sway by 2-3 feet.
Otherwise no. Most of my career has been in Downtown Seattle, but before my WFH freelance thing started (13-story condo) it was in restored lowrise masonry buildings.
When I was in college I cooked 1.5 years in a restaurant on the 46th floor of a building in Seattle. Interesting point: During high winds I didn't notice anything in the kichen, but the dining room dividers that hung from the ceiling would sway by 2-3 feet.
Otherwise no. Most of my career has been in Downtown Seattle, but before my WFH freelance thing started (13-story condo) it was in restored lowrise masonry buildings.
Wow Seattle gets that windy? I guess at 46 floors up it probably does. I still work in the Lloyd Tower. This place is dated but its built like a brick, it barely moves when its windy. I used to dream of living in giant condo tower until I read about one in SF who had a water leak from their top floor and it flooded the entire building and then in Portland we had a newer tower just this summer whose entire HVAC system broke down and the place turned into a 300 ft rotisserie oven. Fudge. We do have some older 70s buildings I kind of like. Im sure they've worked out the bugs but the HOAs for tall buldings are really expensive. Ill just work in one for now.
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Portland!! Where young people formerly went to retire.
I've almost never not worked in one. I've been at 60 Wall, 11 Madison, 270 Park (the former one), 277 Park, 4 Times Square, 30 Rock and 1177 Avenue of the Americas.
I've almost never not worked in one. I've been at 60 Wall, 11 Madison, 270 Park (the former one), 277 Park, 4 Times Square, 30 Rock and 1177 Avenue of the Americas.
I had to look a few of those up. NYC has so many buildings. I recognized a few. I went to top of the rock once, that was pretty cool. How do New Yorkers feel about all those super tall skinny condos going up?
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Portland!! Where young people formerly went to retire.
just for a bit of a twist, i worked in an 1800s skyscraper part of the week for a few years. its a beautiful building, but a lot of it was not in good shape then. its fancy residential now. 346 broadway.
I currently work on the 6th floor of a 104 year old 14 story highrise down in the loop.
I used to live on the 33rd floor of the 60 floor west tower of marina city.
Also lived on the 7th floor of an 18 story west loop highrise.
Now that place probably doesnt budge in high wind. Its a giant concrete corncob. Thats probably in my top 5 Chicago towers for sure along with John Hancock, Willis, those glassy curvy condos that jut out into Lake Michigan and the Drake.
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Portland!! Where young people formerly went to retire.
The highest up I've ever worked is on the 43rd floor of the south tower of City National Plaza in Downtown LA. On clear days, you could see all the way out to the ocean. I loved working on such a high floor.
I've lived in two 30 story buildings and currently live in a 17-story building. But the highest floor I've lived in is the 13th. Never worked in a skyscraper.
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And here the air that I breathe isn't dead.
I’ve lived on the 21st floor of a 22 story building (Griffis South Waterfront, formerly Riva on the Park) and worked on the 6th floor of a 7 story building (Five Oak) in Portland.
I used to work on the 27th floor for PUCO in the Borden Building in downtown Columbus years ago. The only highrise I've ever "lived" in was the 12th floor of a dorm tower at Ohio State.
The highest floor I've ever lived on was the 6th floor of Jester Dorm on the UT Austin campus (1970s). I worked in a building in downtown Ft. Worth one summer in the 70s, but I don't know what building or what floor. Seems like it may have been 20-25 floors or so in height. I was an intern with the National Weather Service that summer. Currently live on the 3rd floor of a 4-story suburban apartment complex.
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