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The Ghost of a Flea8/26/2021 1:22:03 pm PDT

re: #184 Decatur Deb

So this is why I don’t like the comparison:

The basilica 43m high which is the equivalent of being seventeen stories high (anachronistically using 2.5m per story as a base, when of course the actual builidng is massive rooms with soaring ceilings). It has a footprint of 4800 m^2.

The skyscraper is 184m high not counting the antenna and has a rough footprint (advertised square footage / number of floors) of 1800m m^2 and 58 fairly-uniform stories.

Millennium Tower is concrete and rebar and the basilica is brick, so I don’t think it’s a safe assumption that the former is lighter than the latter, even on a per-story basis: concrete and brick are pretty comparable in weight, but then when you add in rebar there’s more weight; but also the tower has 58 uniforms floors each of which is about the same mass of concrete/rebar, while the basilica much more open (but perhaps has heavier interior reinforcement like large pillars?)

Saint Mark’s is a big ‘ole building that has received whatever maintenance it needed to keep it healthy. It’s a nice big brick positioned well on its piles..and in spite of the reputation of Venice for jank the builders dig a pretty good job in their circumstances… and have been miraculously helped along by the preservation of those wood piles by salt water and mud like wood pulled out of bogs.

But Millennium Tower is a spear thrust into the ground: more weight piled more high pressing down on less space.