Re: Sundial bridges

2003-10-07 Thread Willy Leenders
For an other sundial integrated in a construction designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava see http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/MontjuicTower/ Willy Leenders Hasselt, Flanders in Belgium Megan Paris wrote: I am interested in finding out about the use of architecture/engineering

Re: Sundial bridges

2003-10-07 Thread fer j. de vries
Willy, No doubt it is a nice tower but to mention it a sundial is overdone. There is written: The orientation of the tower means that the shadow of the central needle on the circular platform acts as a (rather impractical) sundial. It's a vertical needle and an horizontal ring. That

RE: Sundial bridges

2003-10-07 Thread Thaddeus Weakley
Good Luck to the builders. Thad Ann Arbor, MichiganRobert Terwilliger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See this website about the Turtle Bay Sundial Bridge.Follow the link to the Official Web Pagehttp://www.calatrava.info/viewWork.asp?ID=17Bob-Original Message-From: [EMAIL

Re: Sundial bridges

2003-10-07 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
The German Patent Office in Munchen is a building enclosing a square of about 70x40 meters. This square is a sundial, the innercorner of the roof of two wings gives the shadowmark on the ground. The homepage of their website has a picture of the pattern: http://www.dpma.de/index.htm but I did