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I tend to think buildings of 300m+ as skyscrapers.
Why would planning approval be difficult for that building now?
300m+ would be a 'supertall', I think.
The materials used are kind of cheap. Back then the City Council kind of encouraged development for development's sake, but now they are a little stricter and demand higher quality builds.
One tall building in the city called Bridgewater Place created a nasty wind tunnel, and in 2011 someone died after a truck was blown over and crushed them. They close the road around there whenever it's very windy now, because of that.
The materials used are kind of cheap. Back then the City Council kind of encouraged development for development's sake, but now they are a little stricter and demand higher quality builds.
One tall building in the city called Bridgewater Place created a nasty wind tunnel, and in 2011 someone died after a truck was blown over and crushed them. They close the road around there whenever it's very windy now, because of that.
That's a good clip. Reminds me of Invercargill, which has a couple of dodgy "bowled over" streets. A lot of fun on the bicycle, with a tail wind.
Yep, gotta make those buildings right -Wellington had some tallish ( up to 12 stories) buildings demolished recently, after the Kaikoura earthquake. Some of the main steel floor beams had shorn through, although steel quality doesn't seem to be an issue (unlike some later buildings)
I wouldn't have expected Lower Manhattan to look like Wellington... that's two blocks from the World Trade Center complex site
How many floors on the tallest buildings in that google image? -30? that's only about the same as the most "canyon-ish" part of Wellington. The view from the lower Quay in Wellington is much the same, with not much sky, stone block facades like the one on the left, and narrow side streets/alleyways like that one.
No real grid pattern in Wellington though, so I don't think wind is a problem, unless it's more open.
How many floors on the tallest buildings in that google image? -30? that's only about the same as the most "canyon-ish" part of Wellington. The view from the lower Quay in Wellington is much the same, with not much sky, stone block facades like the one on the left, and narrow side streets/alleyways like that one.
No real grid pattern in Wellington though, so I don't think wind is a problem, unless it's more open.
Think those buildings are about 200m, so 50 floors would be a more appropriate guestimate.
Think those buildings are about 200m, so 50 floors would be a more appropriate guestimate.
I can only see 30 floors and maybe an extra one or two, allowing for a different design on the lowest floors.
The buildings may have many more floors that the photo doesn't show, but as it is now, the scale and narrowness of the side street, seem similar to the highest buildings/narrowest streets of Wellington.
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