Oops.

Someone forgot to put an elevator in a high rise.....

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/-spanish-skyscraper-going-up----without-an-elevator---214416887.html

Get out the jackhammer boys, we got to make a hole.

pretty hard to miss elevators, what else could they forget?

... plumbing

How many laps around the floor level before they realize they forgot stair wells as well?

So, are they saying there is al elevator for the original 20 floors, or none at all?

Ah... "value engineering" at its finest...

Solution: Make it a luxury condo exclusively for star athletes

How were they planning on getting furniture up there? It does open the possibility of cool, glass external elevators.

So, construction workers have been carrying stuff up 47 flights of stairs every day for 6 years and nobody noticed??

DrBoost wrote: So, are they saying there is al elevator for the original 20 floors, or none at all?

My understanding is they had a 20 story elevator in the original design, but when they decided to increase the height of the building they didn't take into account that an elevator for 47 stories will require a larger shaft and more space for all the related equipment.

False! (or is it?)

Short version? Gizmodo can't translate worth crap.

SVreX wrote: So, construction workers have been carrying stuff up 47 flights of stairs every day for 6 years and nobody noticed??

I don't believe it's uncommon to use the building cranes to bring up materials until at least one elevator is operational.

Ian F wrote:

SVreX wrote: So, construction workers have been carrying stuff up 47 flights of stairs every day for 6 years and nobody noticed??

I don't believe it's uncommon to use the building cranes to bring up materials until at least one elevator is operational.

In fact, they won't ever use the finished building elevators, except maybe the freighter at the very end of construction. They'll be using a construction cage elevator up the outside of the building. Those things get pretty damn exciting once you get above 30 stories or so, I can tell you.

Mañana.

Ian F wrote:

SVreX wrote: So, construction workers have been carrying stuff up 47 flights of stairs every day for 6 years and nobody noticed??

I don't believe it's uncommon to use the building cranes to bring up materials until at least one elevator is operational.

They use construction elevators daily (and cranes for the big stuff).

My point was that the mindset of moving stuff up an down was in the forefront of hundreds of workers every day, with dozens of people looking at the plans every single day for 6 years. Nobody noticing is kinda stupid.

No, epic stupid.

In reply to SVreX:

So epically stupid it didn't happen?

DoctorBlade wrote: False! (or is it?) Short version? Gizmodo can't translate worth crap.

I'm still envisioning an impromptu 47-story Freeman's pole.

Ian F wrote: In reply to SVreX: So epically stupid it didn't happen?

DoctorBlade wrote: False! (or is it?) Short version? Gizmodo can't translate worth crap.

What are you saying?

That article doesn't really clear things up. Sure, it questions the translation, but it also says the listing agent for the complex cannot confirm or deny anything.

I'd say that means that article says pretty much nothing.

Personally, I seriously doubt there is any possibility the building is missing elevators. I think it is an internet hoax at best. A building that size would need as many as 20 different elevators. That's a LOT of real estate and equipment. There is no way an architect would forget that much, it would be like them designing a building without rooms or without hallways. In my opinion, it's BS.

But IF it did, it would be epic stupid on the part of all involved. Builders, developers, architects, etc.

Since I doubt that it happened, it is epic stupid to believe in such BS and fall for such ridiculous internet nonsense.

Either way, there is an epic amount of stupid. You are welcome to interpret it how you like, and apply my comment accordingly.

After all, ... this is the internet.

I take it to mean there are elevators there. Since this is the internet, my opinion is right.

In reply to SVreX:

Since the days when bipeds learned to bang two rocks together, I've learned to never underestimate the potential for human stupidity. However, I tend to agree that given the marginal information presented, this is little more than an internet hoax or misunderstanding and the elevators are indeed present.

That said, it was fun to suspend logic for a little while and post smart-ass comments.

Maybe it was the stoner architect who designed an "all foyer house" as seen on The Onion.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/stoner-architect-drafts-allfoyer-mansion,1469/