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Gate Tower Building
- guard-of-terra 13y agoThen again La Defense in Paris is similarily mind blowing. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Arche http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Arche
- ojbyrne 13y agoSimilarly mind-blowing: http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/sharpcentre/index.htm http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/sharpcentre/index.htm
- guard-of-terra 13y agoI guess this one doesn't have several lines of subway in the basement.
- SideburnsOfDoom 13y agohave you ever been near the Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris? it's 110 meters tall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Arche http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Arche Your "similar" one has "26 meter tall columns", the total height looks like around 30 meters. So no, not the same.
- kubiiii 13y agoThere was a video games museum at the top of the building, it is closed now, only boring offices remain.
- ddoolin 13y agoWow. That's pretty interesting. I'm sure it posed quite a few interesting architectural questions. Cool that it doesn't even touch the building while passing right through it.
- notastartup 13y agoHere's a video of driving through one. I don't see what's so special about it though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouPfeHJZzzM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouPfeHJZzzM
- selectodude 13y agoJapan really has the coolest freeways.
- Crito 13y agoI wonder how loud it is in that building, next to or below the highway.
- kiwidrew 13y agoHong Kong has something similar, where the highway passes through a carparking building in Yau Ma Tei: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18378305@N00/8572448579/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/18378305@N00/8572448579/
- solox3 13y agoThey had at least one Jackie Chan movie there.
- somethingnew 13y agoWas this posted in reaction to the Hyperloop post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6999556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6999556
- lelf 13y agoPretty much. After this comment in fact — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7000936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7000936
- IvyMike 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chicago_Main_Post_Office https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chicago_Main_Post_Office
- officemonkey 13y agoIn addition to the Congress Expressway, the building is also constructed over an Amtrak line that runs north-south to Union Station. So it goes ground, train track, building, highway, building.
- blueskin_ 13y agoIn London, there are two fake houses covering where an Underground line runs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leinster_Gardens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leinster_Gardens Satellite view: http://www.urban75.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/leinster-gardens-fake-houses-london-11.jpg http://www.urban75.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/leins...
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- flexie 13y agoAnd Helmsley Building (Park avenue Viaduct): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmsley_Building http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmsley_Building
- lr 13y agoI think that viaduct has been blown up in at least a 1/2 dozen movies. :-)
- treetrouble 13y agoDifficult to find a decent picture of it but both the Amtrak/NJT trains and Lincoln tunnel offramp pass through 450 West 33rd Street in Manhattan. http://i.imgur.com/NgeSIDZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/NgeSIDZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/bEeGinN.jpg http://i.imgur.com/bEeGinN.jpg
- stevep98 13y agoHere's another freeway in the middle of Osaka: http://goo.gl/NCmTlK http://goo.gl/NCmTlK A phrase that's often used for freeways in the US is that they 'divide communities'. That is not the case here. From street level, it's actually very easy to miss the fact that there's a freeway above you at all.
- sgberlin 13y agoBerlin: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn%C3%BCberbauung_Schlangenbader_Stra%C3%9Fe http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn%C3%BCberbauung_Schlang...
- mrtron 13y agoI took a video of this building when I was visiting in Osaka (apologies for the quality, the video is quite zoomed in): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbJBwTHidGI&feature=c4-overview&list=UU5gByMec2Bi49LEfJVrZTyw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbJBwTHidGI&feature=c4-overvi... I happened to spot this building in Osaka from the Floating Garden Building (http://www.osaka-info.jp/en/search/detail/sightseeing_3147.html http://www.osaka-info.jp/en/search/detail/sightseeing_3147.h...) I had read the wikipedia article before, it was very exciting to see in person. Looking back it appears the wikipedia photo is taken from the same spot as my video. Bonus: http://d.pr/i/Q7dn http://d.pr/i/Q7dn and http://d.pr/i/L9cV http://d.pr/i/L9cV give you some more perspective on the surrounding area.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoThe quality's good. Actually, your whole video list is interesting! Japan is a beautiful place... The "flat escalator section" made me laugh for some reason. Hadn't seen that before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1gZOrW5Ac&list=UU5gByMec2Bi49LEfJVrZTyw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1gZOrW5Ac&list=UU5gByMec2Bi...
- dnautics 13y agototally smoked by that old guy who was walking up the steps, too.
- mrtron 13y agoThank you! It was an incredible trip - Japan is so beautiful and unique. Glad you enjoyed the flat escalator! For some reason it caught my eye. The vertical parking garage was neat too (and only a few blocks away in Kanazawa)!
- saalweachter 13y agoThat is really interesting in the context of broken escalators. When the escalator breaks, you have the flat section to rest at, just like the real stairs. Most escalators make bad stairs, because they lack such sections, and frequently have unusual rise/run lengths.
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- maratd 13y agoApartments over the George Washington Bridge http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3682 http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3682
- specialp 13y agoYes my first thought. There is perpetual heavy traffic under there. George Washington bridge is the busiest in the world.
- ojbyrne 13y agoNewton, MA: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/iccdude/8603939901/ https://secure.flickr.com/photos/iccdude/8603939901/
- awad 13y agoSimilar but nowhere near as intense in Manhattan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Avenue_Viaduct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Avenue_Viaduct
- coreymayo 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_structures_built_on_top_of_freeways http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_structures_built_on_top...
- venti 13y agoResidential building on top of a highway in Berlin, Germany: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn%C3%BCberbauung_Schlangenbader_Stra%C3%9Fe http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn%C3%BCberbauung_Schlang...
- civild 13y agoReminds me of the Tay House on Charing Cross Podium, a building straddling the M8 motorway in Glasgow, Scotland, near my office: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M8_Bridge_to_Nowhere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M8_Bridge_to_Nowhere and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Wfm_m8_bridge_to_nowhere.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Wfm_m8_br...
- Argorak 13y agoBerlin has something similar with a subway since ~1900 (along with the house that can be found in other comments): http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berliner-verkehrsseiten.de%2Fu-bahn%2FStrecken%2FGleisdreieck%2FGleisdreieck_1900%2Fgleisdreieck_1900.html http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=... (scroll all the way down)
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- ballard 13y agoWhen cars are driving on the vertical sides of buildings, then maybe that might be impressive
- ctdonath 13y agoA la Minority Report?
- bitwize 13y agoShoot, this just makes me miss Osaka. How could I have gone to Osaka and missed this? I'll keep an eye out for it next time I'm there.
- fddi 13y agocheck out the Meguro Sky Garden in Tokyo, recently completed. It covers a freeway interchange http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201303300049 http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ20...
- c0ur7n3y 13y agoThe adobe building in Utah has a road going under it. http://blog.kezu.com.au/page/2/ http://blog.kezu.com.au/page/2/ (Disclosure: I work there)
- bbanyc 13y agoAmong Robert Moses's unsuccessful development projects was an elevated expressway across Midtown Manhattan, with commercial development below the road and high-rises above it. One proposed route had the expressway passing right through the Empire State Building. I don't know how seriously this was considered - it's one thing to put up a building around a road and quite another to retrofit an existing building to put a road through it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Manhattan_Expressway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Manhattan_Expressway
- paul_f 13y agoNot quite the same thing, but a 6-lane freeway (GA400) goes under the Atlanta Financial Center. http://www.southeastroads.com/georgia200/ga-400_toll_nb_exit_002_06.jpg http://www.southeastroads.com/georgia200/ga-400_toll_nb_exit...
- mVChr 13y agoあああ... なるほど... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaOF6lDnRUk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaOF6lDnRUk I was hoping they'd show what it sounded like on the 4th-8th floors. Can't be optimal working conditions.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoAccording to wiki, those floors are unoccupied with extra shielding to protect the building.
- alexwright 13y ago"Normally, highways are still built underground in these cases, and passing through a building is an extremely rare occurrence." Did they mean underground? Seems like an underground motorway would be even more impressive or unusual than this building.
- andex 13y agosimilar thing in Hong Kong. http://goo.gl/maps/YjowR http://goo.gl/maps/YjowR