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No Elevators?!
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+ Green	Aug 11 2013, 12:55 PM Post #1
Flashy Thing! Posts: 5,436 Group: Legend Member #1,181 Joined: February 25, 2006 Gender Male Country United States What Browser do you use? Fire fox Favourite Manga Gantz	http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/-spanish-skyscraper-going-up----without-an-elevator---214416887.html A 47 floor, 650 foot Skyscraper being built in Spain has no elevators. I'm not architect or engineer but I believe the only reason skyscrapers can exist is because of the invention of the elevator, so how they forgot it is ridiculously hard to believe. The building is scheduled to be completed in 2014 and there is no space for elevator shafts within the building. I'm guessing they'll either have to make some kind of external elevator or many tenants of this building are going to have some powerful thighs
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+ Pelador	Aug 11 2013, 01:44 PM Post #2
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	They could easily build them onto the outside of the building.
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Buuberries	Aug 11 2013, 07:28 PM Post #3
No Posts: 7,150 Group: Members Member #8,753 Joined: December 30, 2012 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime The Passion of Christ What Browser do you use? Christianity Favourite Manga The Bible	I've had to sprint up ten floors once because I was late and missed the elevator. I felt like my lungs were going to explode by the time I got to the eighth floor. With the growing obesity problem we have (at least in the UK), I think this should be compulsory and all existing elevators from the ground floor to at least the fifth floor should be taken down. If anybody wants to use them, then they should climb the stairs to floor 5 and get it from there -- including disabled people. They should work those arms and crawl up. Spoiler: click to toggle jk. kind of Edited by Buuberries, Aug 11 2013, 07:29 PM.
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* Crashbreaka	Aug 11 2013, 08:47 PM Post #4
Captain Oblivious Posts: 6,888 Group: Retired Staff Member #7,771 Joined: June 14, 2012 Gender Male Country New Zealand Favourite Anime Onepunch-Man, Gurren Lagann What Browser do you use? Chrome Favourite Manga Seven Deadly Sins, Food Wars, Onepunch-Man	I always use stairs anyway, it's healthier and elevators give me motion sickness. But I do think that's a rather huge blunder on their part (unless they get one of them awesome external glass elevator shafts). They should cater to disabled people.



+ Emmeth	Aug 11 2013, 09:04 PM Post #5
I ♥ Yoeri Posts: 20,075 Group: Legend Member #8,985 Joined: February 7, 2013 Country Japan	Maybe removing all the elevators in the world will solve the obesity problem. I don't even like elevators.
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+ Pyrus	Aug 11 2013, 10:34 PM Post #6
Posts: 39,342 Group: Legend Member #5,088 Joined: August 1, 2010 Gender Not Specified Country Chile	Elevators are fun. They're like roller coaster minis to me. But 47 floors with no elevators at all? Get an escalator or a dumb waiter.
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+ Steve	Aug 11 2013, 10:47 PM Post #7
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	Sorry but why should they cater to disabled people? If you can't walk/climb stairs what the hell are you doing living in a skyscraper? Live somewhere else, there are plenty of places specifically designed for disabled people or places with elevators(well not sure about in Spain but still) I quite like the idea, imagine you were going to get mugged after living there a few years. POWER KICK. /mugging. Though it would probably be a pain if you had a strict work schedule, living on the top floor could add 5-10 minutes to the time it takes you to get to work plus if you were in a hurry you'd be all sweaty having just run down god knows how many stairs. Screw elevators, just have a pole outside for people to slide down that's perfectly safe. Seriously though I don't see the problem if you're too lazy or unable to climb some stairs just don't live there it's not like you're legally obligated too.
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* Crashbreaka	Aug 12 2013, 12:39 AM Post #8
Captain Oblivious Posts: 6,888 Group: Retired Staff Member #7,771 Joined: June 14, 2012 Gender Male Country New Zealand Favourite Anime Onepunch-Man, Gurren Lagann What Browser do you use? Chrome Favourite Manga Seven Deadly Sins, Food Wars, Onepunch-Man	Who says they live there Steve? They might just be going to visit someone. Sometimes important business meetings are held in there too.



Zenet	Aug 12 2013, 01:24 AM Post #9
Posts: 2,755 Group: Member Member #8,544 Joined: November 11, 2012 Gender Not Specified	I wouldn't mind walking those stairs.



+ Steve	Aug 12 2013, 01:27 AM Post #10
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	It's kind of cruel to make your disabled family/friend come to you as it is nevermind in a skyscraper. If it's just for living in then it's fine, I doubt businessmen and women would be happy with no elevators to get around but for living with you could put up with it. Rent for floors higher up would presumably be cheaper too, considering the trek to the top. How fit you would get going up and down the stairs every day would be worth it, many people find going for a run embarrassing but going up and down stairs is just a thing you do, would just so happen to be a great work out too. The biggest problem would probably getting packages...how would that be conducted? Postman climbs all the way up to give you it? What if you're not there? Or if they message saying they've arrived they have to wait while you come down when they probably have other things to deliver quickly.
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Master Gohan	Aug 12 2013, 05:26 AM Post #11
Posts: 2,178 Group: New York Yankee Member #9,780 Joined: July 21, 2013 Gender Male Country United States Favourite Anime KIll la Kill, No Game No Life, Code Geass, Gosick, Log Horizon, Steins;Gate	Buuberries Aug 11 2013, 07:28 PM I've had to sprint up ten floors once because I was late and missed the elevator. I felt like my lungs were going to explode by the time I got to the eighth floor. With the growing obesity problem we have (at least in the UK), I think this should be compulsory and all existing elevators from the ground floor to at least the fifth floor should be taken down. If anybody wants to use them, then they should climb the stairs to floor 5 and get it from there -- including disabled people. They should work those arms and crawl up. Spoiler: click to toggle jk. kind of Exactly. You have two arms, use 'em.



*Copy_Ninja*	Aug 12 2013, 05:34 AM Post #12
*Novacane for the pain* Posts: 8,033 Group: Guardian Member #6,499 Joined: July 18, 2011 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Hunter x Hunter (2011) What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga Monster, One Piece, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Hunter X Hunter, Death Note, SnK	Well that's rather inconvenient. Walking up and down a 40 story skyscraper every day would be a massive waste of your time. Unless you sprint up the stares, it'd probably take you, what ten minutes to get up there? Nobody wants to do that just to get to where they live. It's all well and good to say it's healthier and people should walk and whatever, but that's easier to say than have to do every day. I know I'd be pretty pissed getting home from a long and tiring day at work just to have to deal with that. But they'll probably just build some on the outside so it's not really a big deal.
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UncleGoten	Aug 12 2013, 03:26 PM Post #13
Posts: 2,118 Group: GFX Team Member #7,628 Joined: May 11, 2012 Country Ireland Favourite Anime Kimi ni Todoke,Ao Haru Ride, Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, Nisekoi, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, and Sakurasao Favourite Manga Dragon Ball	47 floors without an elevator is just too much, just build an extension onto the side of the building. I never liked elevators, i got stuck in one as a kid.....



+ Steve	Aug 12 2013, 03:47 PM Post #14
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	On the bright side imagine how quickly you would get to sleep after walking up those stairs at night? That would be bliss if you had trouble sleeping. And going for a shower coming home from work would just feel amazing little things like that would be so much better than normal. But yeah if you have the kind of job where you need to wear a suit and look your best living on the top floor, unless you have your own helicopter is going to suck. Guess they could install lockers and showers for residents at the bottom? Cheap solution. You're a businessman or woman, run down the stairs in your shorts, that's your morning work out sorted. Quick shower, get changed and head to work refreshed and ready to go as normal. Though obviously they'd need to be kept clean and for use strictly by residents. The building as it stands seems kind of rubbish but the idea could work if it was maybe slightly smaller, could have a café at the bottom too.
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