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Tangential. The lead says "crashed into a high-rise building in Zugló during a sightseeing flight in Budapest" but as the article details later, it didn't cras
by chx 4y ago
Tangential.
The lead says "crashed into a high-rise building in Zugló during a sightseeing flight in Budapest" but as the article details later, it didn't crash into such a building. If you know the area this is even more confusing because there is a unusually high sixty meter high building very close https://i.imgur.com/3a7EiQ4.png https://i.imgur.com/3a7EiQ4.png and people vaguely know it's from the sixties, however this rather hideous building was built in 1965. In the 60s, the regime was mostly building mid rise concrete buildings with very few high rises as an architectural sign of triumph. This particular building in Zugló was for a few years one of the highest buildings in Budapest and certainly the highest apartment building. Even today the highest apartment building is only 71 meters high.
Another very Hungarian story about high rises is the one in Pécs. It was the highest building in the country at 82m built using novel Yugoslavian technology 1974-1976. Due to rushing the construction and skipping a very small amount of necessary special material, the pretensioned cords holding the building together rusted, the residents were evacuated in 1989 and eventually the building got demolished in 2016. Skipping a bucket of special "inhibitor" material -- seriously, for the entire building that was all needed -- and a few sheets of plastic in the mid 70s then ignoring the troubling findings of checkups in the early 80s leading to the inevitable loss of the building is just archetypical of socialist Hungary.
- buildbot 4y agoThis still happens today still with post-tensioned buildings - they have to replace all of the structural cabling: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/flaws-in-doomed-high-rise-flew-under-the-citys-radar/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/flaws-in-doomed-hi... "And while the city’s planning department considers itself a “safety net,” it never picked up on the fact that the “post-tensioning” cables had not been inspected to ensure they were sealed properly. Further, the private inspection firm hired to monitor the construction said the city never required that the cable waterproofing be checked."
- chx 4y agoAh but see that's post tensioned and weather proofing. The Pécs high rise pretensioned cables were eaten by the very building material they used to seal the gaps between the concrete panels.