Urban Shocker
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Why? Are you more in favour of energy inefficiency?
???????????????????????Why? Are you more in favour of energy inefficiency?
What troubles me about that is that the architect took a good deal of time and energy in proposing a tremendous project - but didn’t consider the climate in which the building would be built. I studied architecture and this is a key factor when designing a building.
Second, our city design panel approved a project that could not be built, Who's not doing their homework?
I saw them flapping horribly in the wind last fall. The whole facade was vibrating as if caught in an epileptic seizure. Not very elegant or reassuring. Above all totally unnecessary. Would you hang exterior shades on the outside of your windows?Exterior-mounted screens reduce cooling costs more efficiently than interior screens and if they do fail ( each window has its own screen ) they can, presumably, be repaired. Summer can be windy too, but the screens don't flap in the wind - they descend, anchored to the window frames at the sides. And given how rarely they're used, will discolouration due to pollution be much of an issue?
Would you hang exterior shades on the outside of your windows?
The lump of Coal + Schitt on the waterfront?
Big Duddy: ??inclusive.
I am interested in your credentials
Exterior-mounted screens reduce cooling costs more efficiently than interior screens and if they do fail ( each window has its own screen ) they can, presumably, be repaired. Summer can be windy too, but the screens don't flap in the wind - they descend, anchored to the window frames at the sides. And given how rarely they're used, will discolouration due to pollution be much of an issue?
Apparently it's not my credentials you need, Urban Shocker seems to have all the expertise as it pertains to exterior-mounted screens and apparently Mr. AlvinofDiaspar is our resident expert on exterior cladding as his aluminum cladding and it's grooves have solved the ice slippage problem. Even though almost all of the grooves run perpendicular to grade. I see your well considered point.
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/toronto/jpgs/royal_ontario_museum_daniellibeskind010507_14.jpg
So next, Joe Roe and Big Daddy go down a tad to Nathan Philips Square and rip down those so-called eyesore walkways.
The lesson here: beware of well-meaning urbanist hack amateurs...