2003-03-01
Check out USMA24986.
If you click on the plans, you will see they are in feet
and inches. These plans are for a renovation of the Royal Ontario Museum
(ROM) in Toronto.
Maybe once the notoriety dies down, you may wish to write
to him personally, or someone else at his Berlin Studio and question them as to
their unit policy.
You may also want to contact the
and ask them what units he or his studio uses in their
designs. It will be interesting to see how a building designed or drawn
out in FFU can be built in a metric country.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, 2003-03-01 12:32
Subject: [USMA:24990] Re: Building at Ground Zero 541.3248
metres high
> can not be loaded for the time being. He says that is for two days because
> there is too much internet traffic. I could find nothing about used
> measuring units, except the 1776 ft for the building in New York.
> In a few says I will try to find out whether I can get to his information
> about the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Then we will see if he would be good
> asset for the BWMA.
>
> I got an 404 error.
>
> Han
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, 2003-03-01 0:22
> Subject: [USMA:24980] Re: Building at Ground Zero 541.3248 metres high
>
>
> > 2003-02-28
> >
> > I did a Google search on "Daniel Liebeskind" and found his homepage is on
> a
> > Dutch server. I did not research the site yet, nor did I look at the
> other
> > sites Google found. But, I thought you might find it interesting that his
> > homepage is on a Dutch server.
> >
> > Check it out.
> >
> > http://www.ooo.nl/royal/libeskind/home.htm
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, 2003-02-28 01:36
> > Subject: [USMA:24973] Re: Building at Ground Zero 541.3248 metres high
> >
> >
> > > It would be a grievous error to promote the height of a building as
> > 541.3248
> > > m. That is far too accurate, and in fact, such exaggeration is one of
> the
> > > weapons of the ifp camp to make metric look stupid compared to ifp.
> > > Just compare 1776 feet with 541.3248 m and you see, that the metric
> > figures
> > > must be rounded! Never, ever be too accurate!
> > > And I think that it is indeed an attempt to glorify the units of Fred
> > > Flintstone.
> > > I wonder which units Libeskind uses in his Berlin studio.
> > > He can never use ifp trash when designing and building in metric
> > countries.
> > >
> > > Han
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Brij Bhushan Vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, 2003-02-27 21:21
> > > Subject: [USMA:24954] Building at Ground Zero 541.3248 metres high
> > >
> > >
> > > This is yet, another attempt to keep FFU's active and 'blow' to SI. It
> > > could have been promoted as 541.3248 metres (=1776 feet), if at all
> feet
> > > were necessary.
> > > Regards,
> > > Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
