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Tweet was from 1.5 hours ago,  update is 13 transported to hospitals, still searching .

 

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Better now than with a bunch of guest in it. Hope no one is hurt.

Looks horrible, esp. if workers were active. Shocked if some of those on ground weren't Abbott'd.

Seems pretty standard for NO

You can see the workers running on the street 

56 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

You can see the workers running on the street 

Not running fast enough.

Dashcam. He was lucky he had a red light

Hard Rock Hotel apparently. I've seen their work and it's not all that difficult to believe those assholes would cut corners.

More video, including close call shot from inside a street car

aftermath

 

drone

 

 

Quick which public company owns billboards, for lawyers, in New Orleans, i need to buy some stock.  

I told them Cajun Architect, not Haitian Architect.  

 

1 hour ago, RollLeft said:

Quick which public company owns billboards, for lawyers, in New Orleans, i need to buy some stock.  

That ship has sailed, dude. 

Gordon out front shoulda told ya. 

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

I told them Cajun Architect, not aggy Architect.  

 

fify

6 hours ago, RollLeft said:

Quick which public company owns billboards, for lawyers, in New Orleans, i need to buy some stock.  

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On 10/12/2019 at 5:14 PM, Fuck Tim Beck said:

It's NO, it looks fine. Just leave it as is. 

Yeah, just market it as a Frank Gehry project.

I am shocked -- SHOCKED -- to find that a construction project in NOLA is perhaps not completely on the up-and-up.

3 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

The new deconstructivist style 

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Just now, yoladu said:

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Nice, Coop Himmelblau correct ??  One of my favorite examples of the style even if it completely ignores the original buildings contexturalism.

1 minute ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Nice, Coop Himmelblau correct ??  One of my favorite examples of the style even if it completely ignores the original buildings contexturalism.

It's no Celinto Catayente towers....

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

It's no Celinto Catayente towers....

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Hey, it's all about seeing buildings in their natural state.

2 minutes ago, housious said:

A bunch of lawyers are about to get all lawyery

It's NOLA, man.  We are assured of the following outcome:

1 - some rich folks will get richer off of this.

2 - poor working folks will remain in the shit, and nothing will change to make life safer for them.

3 - nobody of any wealth or power will face any consequences.

Forget it, Jake....

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Quick which public company owns billboards, for lawyers, in New Orleans, i need to buy some stock.  


If you can’t get in on that hustle, invest in yellow paint
1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

a construction project in NOLA is perhaps not completely on the up-and-up.

it's not on the up-and-up anymore, that's for sure

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

It's NOLA, man.  We are assured of the following outcome:

1 - some rich folks will get richer off of this.

2 - poor working folks will remain in the shit, and nothing will change to make life safer for them.

3 - nobody of any wealth or power will face any consequences.

Forget it, Jake....

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How would that differ from the rest of the US?

1 hour ago, SquishMitten said:

 


If you can’t get in on that hustle, invest in yellow paint crime scene tape.

 

Fixed it - New Orleans style.

Speaking of 3rd world shitholes, anybody remember this fiasco?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Tower

 

Ocean Tower SPI was an unfinished, 31-story condominium in South Padre Island, Cameron County, Texas, United States, that was imploded when it was deemed unsafe to remain standing. Construction was halted in May 2008 when cracks formed in the building's supporting columns, and investigations revealed that the core of the skyscraper had sunk by more than 14 inches (360 mm). Though the developers initially vowed to fix the problem, studies discovered that repairs would have been too expensive, and plans for its demolition were announced in September 2009. At the time of its controlled implosion in December 2009 the building weighed 55,000 short tons (50,000 t), and it was the tallest reinforced concrete structure to be demolished in that way. It was nicknamed "Faulty Towers" and "The Leaning Tower of South Padre Island".

 

Friend of mine who lived down there at the time got in on this action:

Any materials that could be recycled or resold, including fixtures and fittings, steel, flooring, and windows, were removed from the building before demolition

 

They just opened it up and anybody could come in and take whatever they could safely remove. Then you paid some fraction of the actual cost. Sort of like when you salvage a door panel for your 85 Oldsmobile from a junkyard.

 

 

I'm surprised anyone in SPI was worldly enough to know of Faulty (Fawlty) Towers.

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1 hour ago, immortal13 said:

Did they hire aggys to build this?

aggys don't generally build, they design.  But the outcome can be the same (see bonfire '99).

20 minutes ago, Moby Ric said:

Anyone know who the General Contractor is?

Pretty sure it's this guy.

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1 hour ago, Blotto said:

How would that differ from the rest of the US?

Scale

So...another example of corruption and cutting corners in New Orleans?  I'm shocked.

On 10/12/2019 at 11:33 AM, woohorn said:

Looks horrible, esp. if workers were active. Shocked if some of those on ground weren't Abbott'd.

Sooooo, we're just going to let this one go?

engineering firm was Heaslip engineering.  They knew about the issue for a few months and were trying to fix it.  Steel was deflecting and gussets were being added.  Too late

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