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    Hotel Death Ray

    Hotel Death Ray

    I can't decide if it's a case of Epic Fail by the architect, or if he's managed to pull off an enormous joke on the owners.

    Either way, I love it.
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    I wish my hotel had a Death Ray. That's awesome!
    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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    • #3
      It's happened other places too. The problem with putting a film on the windows is that it will heat the building up.

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      • #4
        That's just...I mean...wow! It's a fail and a win! You could 'comp' SCs by giving them a 'free private pool pass' and watch the fun! Chances are they'd be too stubborn to move out of the ray, and would roast!

        MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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        • #5
          Happened at the Disney Center in LA:

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall
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          • #6
            That is awful and hilarious all at once.

            I've stayed in Mandalay Bay over there, and that thing can heat up a walkway, too. You can feel heat rolling off the building. I don't think it's nearly as bad, though, the glass is a dark gold color. Probably doesn't reflect as much as the Mirage. The curve of the building is also less gradual, more like an soft angle, so it's less of a convex surface than the Mirage.

            I looked online, and evidently Mandalay Bay is considered to have a death ray, too, but I don't think it's cooking things. But then, I wasn't there in the summer, either.

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            • #7
              Quoth draco664 View Post

              I can't decide if it's a case of Epic Fail by the architect, or if he's managed to pull off an enormous joke on the owners.

              Either way, I love it.
              Us Salt Lakers ask the same thing about the architect of the LDS Church Headquarters, who through tastefully placed inlays of massive globes on either side of the main tower at the base of the building have made it look like a giant... well, you get the idea
              At least though we haven't built a death ray in Utah... don't give us any ideas though, we may just put it to good use (Why yes Mr. Shanze, I would love to get a photo of you, now if you could stand just a little to the left where the light is a little bit better )
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              • #8
                During one of the tours today I had someone ask me if we did research in ways to avoid this kind of problem. I had to explain that honestly, it doesn't matter what kind of materials we develop (and we aren't the materials people, we just test & rate them), that sort of thing can happen. It's how they're used.

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