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The Building Built on Stilts

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February 21, 2017
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The Building Built on Stilts

(as presented at Lead Dev New York, Feb. 21, 2017)

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February 21, 2017

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Transcript

  1. The Building Built on Stilts Nickolas Means @nmeans

  2. New York City, 1973

  3. Walter Wriston

  4. None
  5. None

  6. 399 Park Ave.

  7. You Are Here

  8. St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church

  9. You Are Here

  10. Hugh Stubbins, Architect

  11. Hugh Stubbins, Architect William LeMessurier, Engineer

  12. St. Peter’s Church

  13. None
  14. None
  15. None
  16. None
  17. None

  18. Structural Load

  19. Wind Load

  20. None
  21. None

  22. Tuned Mass Damper

  23. None
  24. None

  25. Diane Hartley

  26. Perpendicular Wind

  27. Perpendicular Wind Quartering Wind

  28. Perpendicular Wind Quartering Wind

  29. Perpendicular Wind Quartering Wind

  30. None
  31. None
  32. None
  33. None

  34. 1:55

  35. None

  36. 1:55 1:16

  37. None
  38. None

  39. John S. Reed

  40. Walter Wriston

  41. None
  42. None
  43. None
  44. None
  45. None

  46. Hurricane Ella

  47. Hurricane Ella

  48. None
  49. None

  50. Transparency

  51. Solution-Oriented

  52. None

  53. Blameless

  54. Kind

  55. Mistakes Are Inevitable

  56. The Building Built on Stilts Nickolas Means @nmeans Thank You!