In an anecdote directly out of Final Destination : Architectural Terror ( coming 2016 ) , Austrian newspaperDie PresseandDezeenreport that a nearly 200 - hammer chunk of concrete came gate-crash onto the portico of a new Zaha Hadid building in Vienna . And this is n’t the first time .
Die Pressereports that an 80 kilogram — or more than 176 pounds — chunk of concrete fell off the building on Friday . No one was injure , though the edifice houses the engaged library of the Vienna University of Economics and Business . It turn out this is n’t the first time concrete slabs have fallen off the building , either . Not long after it opened , in July last year , a four by eight foot slab of reinforced concrete cascaded off the frontal .
look-alike :O Palsson / CC
Here ’s how a 31 - twelvemonth - old student described the situation to theKurier at the time :
After I see the plate lie on the priming coat , I have stimulate another . The come loose before me . In the future I will desist from the frontal and be vigilant when I go to the entrance .
Good call , buddy !
This actually is n’t a terribly surprising — or rarefied — development . The irony of high - monetary value , avant - garde architecture is that to actually ramp up these unusual buildings , contractile organ often resort to unprecedented construction proficiency . There ’s been a roseola of major problems — and lawsuits — stemming from poor or fault detail on well - acknowledge projects over the retiring few years .
Just front at Santiago Calatrava , whose spindly , bone - like edifice have spur multiple lawsuits alleginghorrifying construction qualityover the past few years ; or Frank Gehry , whose famously jumbled Stata Center , whichMIT sued Gehry for over cracks , mold , passing water , and poor drainagejust three eld after it opened . It ’s a moderately unsurprising , given the physics at manoeuvre in some of these structures , but that does n’t make it defensible .
The schooling in Vienna says it ’s preparing to let go a study of the facade this workweek — in the meantime , they ’ve blocked off the field below the overhang . [ Dezeen;Die Presse ]
Lead range : Steve Silverman / CC
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