I worked for a few years in a genuine early '70s sky scraper (Aon Center-formerly Standard Oil Building-in Chicago).The nearly 1,400-foot tower at 432 Park Avenue, briefly the tallest residential building in the world, was the pinnacle of New York’s luxury condo boom half a decade ago, fueled largely by foreign buyers seeking discretion and big returns. I was only on the 37th floor, but the building was 70-something stories. My view was phenomenal, and we never had elevator issues when I was there. Overall, the building was nice, and the office was adequate but aging. Our lobby was jaw-droppingly beautiful, and we were connected to an ant-farm kind of tunnel system with all kinds of restaurants, coffee shops and stores.
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There was a lovely plaza outside at ground level full of trees, benches and such. #The down side supertall leaks creaks full The water in the toilets would surge up and down during storms, and you could sometimes hear the building creak, all of which was mildly amusing. But the absolute worst part about it? You cannot open a god damned window. In our building at least, there wasn't even a vent you could open to get some tiny bit of fresh air. Regulating air pressure is critical in super tall buildings. Sure, the HVAC was always circulating, but it felt like being in some artificial climate the entire time you were there. Breathing air out of ducts that were last cleaned who-knows-when. All that outgassing from new paint and carpeting. It's kind of gross when you think about it, even though it wasn't necessarily a BAD experience. I cannot imagine living in a building where I can't open a window even a crack. Posted by SoberHighland at 7:46 PM on Febru I feel a little schadenfreude from this story, but these kinds of folks own multiple homes, and all this is minor crap for them.
I mean, if you buy a Bugatti, it's going to be awesome but it's also going to spend a ton of time at the mechanic. When you buy a french chateau it's going to be expensive as hell to maintain and come with all sorts of hassles. Yes, but if you buy a French chateau then you have a French chateau, not a buggy apartment building where you're isolated high above the city, alone and far from help, should anything go wrong with the lifts or the building in general. I don't want to live anywhere where I can't get up and down the stairs under my own power relatively quickly, I don't want to live anywhere where emergency services might be delayed by elevator problems and god knows I don't want to live anywhere which might be badly constructed enough that something would break off a hundred stories up. Also a French chateau isn't going to lose value, whereas any number of chaotic world events could mess up New York real estate as the climate crisis deepens.
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If you need to repair a French chateau you get to hire cool specialized artisans who know how to repair things from 1750. #The down side supertall leaks creaks how to
if you need to repair a pricey high-rise apartment, you have to hire rip-off contractors. Let me tell you, if I somehow come into millions of dollars, it's the chateau all the way. So it’s nice to have the schadenfreude moment. I think our anger and squeeing is slightly misdirected. The builders and developers who cut the corners for genuine issues the building is having. If we were reading an article that contained the same building faults - plumbing, sound issues, safety issues etc - but the clientele were working-class, there would be absolute outrage and calls for hangings of the developers/builders. I think of what would happen if a fire like the London cladding fire would break out in this building: would we blame the rich people, or the people who designed and built it? Just because they are rich does not mean their complaints about the shit building aren’t warranted. I CAN direct my anger towards the miserably low occupancy rate of this building - in cities like London and NYC, it just feels criminal. #The down side supertall leaks creaks full.#The down side supertall leaks creaks how to.
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