andybarton Posted August 10, 2007 Share #1  Posted August 10, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) The curtain walling that I had to go to Munich to see back in the Spring is now being installed on one of my buildings. These units probably weigh a tonne.  Great to watch. I have a whole sequence from when the "elephant" puts the panel overboard, to when they fix the panel onto the brackets.  CM/Astia  [ATTACH]49196[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stunsworth Posted August 10, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted August 10, 2007 When you say 'your building' are you referring to 'Schloss Barton' in Bavaria? <grin> Â Nice shot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted August 10, 2007 Author Share #3 Â Posted August 10, 2007 Nein. This is in Liverpool, but all this glassy stuff comes from Bavaria. And superb it is too. Â This is but one of the buildings for which I am responsible for its timely and financially satisfactory completion. I have about $1bn more in the pipeline. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted August 10, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted August 10, 2007 Looking at the wavy reflections it don't look very flat to me. I'd reject the lot. Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted August 10, 2007 Author Share #5 Â Posted August 10, 2007 Do you know what...? Â I sent this very photo to my Architect only this evening (having had these shots back from the processors), asking him whether this was correct, and whether the whole lot should be rejected. I looks highly dodgy to me. Superb (if it's right)... but dodgy. It WILL be right. Â Fancy a job, Michael? Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted August 11, 2007 Share #6  Posted August 11, 2007 Looking at the wavy reflections it don't look very flat to me. I'd reject the lot.  Ah - but it depends on the specification! To say nothing of the politics of the situation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted August 11, 2007 Share #7  Posted August 11, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration)  Fancy a job, Michael?)  Snagging lists are my speciality.  Some years ago I was on site with a colleague, and good friend, who is a fanatic for "getting it right". We were inspecting the laying of a £35,000 single-piece, hand-woven, carpet going down in a function room. We arrived just before cutting. He stood there looking at the woven in border, got out his tape measure and checked the distance from the border to the wall on both sides of the room. It was an inch out. So we called the Contract's Manager over and told him we'd prefer it centred.  A big row broke out with the carpet installer subby telling us it was impossible to move a carpet of that size to that accuracy. And, because it was on a latex backing it couldn't be kicked into place - it just stretches. The whole carpet fitting crew were livid that we wanted to move it. My friend was adamant and stood his ground, his logic was: we are now going to cut this expensive carpet and it will be cut for ever more, we may as well cut it right.  We gathered all the labour on site, ourselves included, and shook the carpet from one end - gosh it was heavy. Everyone ran back to the other end in question, all brandishing their tape measures. Ready to jump down our throats for f••king it up.  It was perfect. Millimetre perfect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carylwithay Posted August 11, 2007 Share #8 Â Posted August 11, 2007 Makes a great photograph whatever the architectural problems. At first I though it was looking down on the rooms from a great height. Then I realized it was from the ground up. Sort of like an Escher painting. Caryl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted September 2, 2007 Share #9 Â Posted September 2, 2007 I like the tree. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted September 2, 2007 Share #10 Â Posted September 2, 2007 Andy, Â I like the way the CM draws the curtain. Â Â Fair enough, I'll get my coat... Â Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 2, 2007 Author Share #11 Â Posted September 2, 2007 Turns out the air pressure in Bavaria is lower than at sea level in Liverpool, so the higher pressure presses in the glass of the curtain walling units, causing the distortion. Â So, the answer is, either move the glass factories to St Helens, where they belong, or move Liverpool up a mountain. Â This issue will be fixed... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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