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Related: About this forumThe Building That Set A Car On Fire Also Nearly Set A Reporter On Fire
Londons skyline has a new addition this week: the Walkie Scorchie. Joining the crowded group of glass protrusions, such as the Shard, the Gherkin, and the Cheesegrater, is 20 Fenchurch Street, which had previously been known as the Walkie Talkie, on account of it looking vaguely like a gigantic two-way radio.
But the 37-storey office block, due to be completed next year, has gained a new sinister reputation: the death ray, the fryscraper, the Walkie Scorchie.
Its south-facing concave facade conspires to concentrate and reflect the suns rays into an intense beam of shimmery light, hitting the buildings on the opposite side of the road. Along a 30-yard stretch of pavement at Eastcheap just a Molotov cocktails throw from where the Great Fire of 1666 started Londons burning.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/architecture/10283702/Whats-frying-at-Walkie-Scorchie.html
But the 37-storey office block, due to be completed next year, has gained a new sinister reputation: the death ray, the fryscraper, the Walkie Scorchie.
Its south-facing concave facade conspires to concentrate and reflect the suns rays into an intense beam of shimmery light, hitting the buildings on the opposite side of the road. Along a 30-yard stretch of pavement at Eastcheap just a Molotov cocktails throw from where the Great Fire of 1666 started Londons burning.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/architecture/10283702/Whats-frying-at-Walkie-Scorchie.html
Note to self: Don't go anywhere near the vicinity of this building.
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The Building That Set A Car On Fire Also Nearly Set A Reporter On Fire (Original Post)
Initech
Sep 2013
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)1. *Note to Initech* Wear sunblock
Initech
(100,085 posts)2. I think I would need SPF 9,000,000 for that!
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)3. It warped and melted a Jaguar.
The architect and owner are going to have to fix this. It's too destructive.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)4. Maybe they should use the building to concentrate that solar power
And collect it to generate power or for sea water desalination.