Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "" video.

  1. Same here. No way would I live or work in one of those super-talls. Too there's a novel from 1984 called "Skyscraper" and it's about a New York skyscraper that is too thin and too tall and things go horribly wrong. It's a well-researched book; there's even mention about how part of the building's trouble was that the concrete hadn't been mixed enough or didn't get poured at the right time. I don't recall the details, but "Skyscraper", though not well-known, is a page-turner of a book.
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  2. Thank you, Mr. Wyetzner, for this great lesson. I love buildings and it's great to learn more about them as it increases my not just my knowledge, but my appreciation and enjoyment. I wonder if the bronze color of the glass for the Seagram building was chosen because it matches the color of Seagram's whiskey. Not far from where I live in Indiana is a huge hole in the ground, partially filled with with water. It's called the Empire Hole and is where the limestone was quarried for the Empire State Building. On the campus of Indiana University (Bloomington) a new building was recently built and it's a Mies van der Rohe design from the 1950's. I love big buildings, but I'm still a small-town boy: I don't like being higher than the third floor! Last of all: I'd love a discussion of a building that never actually existed, but that I think is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen: the Glass Tower from the movie "The Towering Inferno".
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