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It has been nicknamed "The Walkie-Talkie" because of its distinctive shape, said to resemble a walkie-talkie handset. [4] Construction was completed in spring 2014, and the three-floor "sky garden" was opened in January 2015. [5] The 38-storey building is 160 m (525 ft) tall. Since July 2017, the building has been owned by Lee Kum Kee Groups.
As Wainwright noted, "the underwhelming roof terrace" was, it turned out, "the least of the Walkie Talkie's problems. Before it was even open, it was found that its south-facing concave glass facade channelled the sun's rays into a deadly beam of heat, capable of melting the bumper of a Jaguar, blistering painted shopfronts and singeing carpets ...
Harry Grindell Matthews Matthews in 1924 Born (1880-03-17) 17 March 1880 Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, England Died 11 September 1941 (1941-09-11) (aged 61) Tor Clawdd, Rhydypandy (Swansea), Wales Education Merchant Venturer's School Occupation Inventor Spouse Ganna Walska (m. 1938–1941; his death) Harry Grindell Matthews (17 March 1880 – 11 September 1941) was an English inventor who ...
Getty Images By Brenda Goh Britain's largest listed property developer is close to solving the incendiary solar glare problem for the "Walkie Talkie," its landmark new 37-story glass office block ...
Viñoly was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 1 June 1944, [5] to Román Viñoly Barreto, a film and theater director, and Maria Beceiro, a math teacher."It was a cultivated household where the architecture of Le Corbusier, the art of translation, or the conducting of Arturo Toscanini might form part of the table talk," wrote Louis Jebb, in The Art Newspaper.
Why the Air Force Wants This Plasma Freeze Ray Bara7 - Getty Images At high altitudes and in the vacuum of space, keeping electronics cool can be difficult when air is scarce.
Three men still remain on federal death row after President Joe Biden issued sweeping commutations Monday to the sentences of 37 other prisoners who were awaiting execution.. Biden's decision is ...
The death ray or death beam is a theoretical particle beam or electromagnetic weapon first theorized around the 1920s and 1930s. Around that time, notable inventors such as Guglielmo Marconi , [ 1 ] Nikola Tesla , Harry Grindell Matthews , Edwin R. Scott , Erich Graichen [ 2 ] and others claimed to have invented it independently. [ 3 ]