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'Generali' sign atop insurer's skyscraper offices collapses in Milan
- mslansn 1y agoWhat does the (35 degree, lol) heatwave have to do with the sign collapsing to be worth mentioning? They get more transparent every day indeed.
- comrade1234 1y agoPresumably insured?
- seydor 1y agoThe other two signs are alive - they were their insurance policy
- entropiae 1y agoI found online the project page in the builder's portfolio; by looking at it from the street level I though it was a much simpler structure https://redesco.it/en/projects/generali-towers-sign-board-in-citylife-milan/ https://redesco.it/en/projects/generali-towers-sign-board-in...
- metalman 1y agowild! the whole thing was supported from central base to allow a continious gap between the sign and the building, so that the two cranes for exterior building maintainance could run around the building perimitor on a mini railroad, the whole thing looks(looked), ambitious
- recursivedoubts 1y agomodern architecture: can it do anything right?