This is the bear we sent to both W.A. and Alan this past month! Catreona instigated it and listener carried it out. But the bears were from all of us, because we care about our blog friends!!! ❤️ 💜
puddle got a bear too, when she was in the hospital that last time. Her son told me she took it with her to rehab and had it to the end. 🧸. I miss her so much! 💜
Found this on Reddit written by "Porcelain Dalmation" ...
THE BALLROOM ISN'T REAL
In my civilian life, I’m an architect who works primarily in the hospitality space. I’ve done my share of ballrooms over the years, and virtually everything about Trump’s proposed ballroom sounds suspect. I was going to write about it, but then I saw a Twitter video from another architect who said it better than I could. Since we’re not allowed to link to Twitter videos, I loosely transcribed it for you (with some extra commentary) here:
The Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom will supposedly be 90,000 SF and cost $300 million. That comes out to $3,333/SF. No building costs anywhere near that number. $1,000/SF is considered astronomical.
The proposed footprint is longer than a football field and 1.5x as wide. Imagine being at a gala where the stage is in the end zone and you’re sitting on the opposing team’s 10-yard-line. You’d need a jumbotron just to see the speaker.
The building’s occupancy is 999 people. At 20SF/person (code), that’s only 20,000 SF (or roughly 100 x 200 feet). If you add in an extraordinarily generous 10,000 SF for function space (kitchen, A/V, storage, etc) and 10,000 SF for pre-function space, you get a total of 40,000 SF. That’s not even half of 90,000 SF.
Then things get worse. There are no drawings for the building. The renderings are poorly coordinated, and could be done by any architectural intern in less than a week. The exterior shots don’t match the interior. The exterior renderings show a 70 foot tall building, matching the height of the White House. The interior renderings, however, only show a 20 foot tall building. The interior renderings show a size of approximately 20,000 SF, the exterior renderings show a footprint of 4.5x that amount.
There are no drawings, no surveys, no geo reports, no approvals, no MEP plans, no landscaping plans, no bids, and no demo plans. As someone who’s done a ton of renovations, you never demolish without a demo plan - because you don’t know what you want to keep (atheistically or structurally).
In typical Trump fashion, none of this has been thought through in the least. He’s pulling numbers out of his sphincter. Either he’s up to something, or his handlers (Miller and Vought) needed to give Grandpa something to do - quick.
It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that Trump doesn't know a sophisticated data center will be located under his ballroom. The idea of Miller et al. simply giving him something to do while they go about their pernicious business is perfectly plausible. He does have dementia, after all. They need to keep him amused and out of their hair.
This is the bear we sent to both W.A. and Alan this past month! Catreona instigated it and listener carried it out. But the bears were from all of us, because we care about our blog friends!!! ❤️ 💜
ReplyDeleteYou sent me a Vermont bear too, listener, when I was having a bad patch. -- nordy
ReplyDelete❤️🧸❤️
DeleteAnd, like these, it's full of blog hugs!!
puddle got a bear too, when she was in the hospital that last time. Her son told me she took it with her to rehab and had it to the end. 🧸. I miss her so much! 💜
DeleteI remember that Puddle had a bear. So glad to know she had him with her right to the end.
Delete{{♥Puddle♥}}
That's a cute bear! Listener chose wisely, not that I would expect anything else.
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DeleteIt takes a village.
Video: Trump Isn't Building A Ballroom - Click
ReplyDeleteFound this on Reddit written by "Porcelain Dalmation" ...
DeleteTHE BALLROOM ISN'T REAL
In my civilian life, I’m an architect who works primarily in the hospitality space. I’ve done my share of ballrooms over the years, and virtually everything about Trump’s proposed ballroom sounds suspect. I was going to write about it, but then I saw a Twitter video from another architect who said it better than I could. Since we’re not allowed to link to Twitter videos, I loosely transcribed it for you (with some extra commentary) here:
The Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom will supposedly be 90,000 SF and cost $300 million. That comes out to $3,333/SF. No building costs anywhere near that number. $1,000/SF is considered astronomical.
The proposed footprint is longer than a football field and 1.5x as wide. Imagine being at a gala where the stage is in the end zone and you’re sitting on the opposing team’s 10-yard-line. You’d need a jumbotron just to see the speaker.
The building’s occupancy is 999 people. At 20SF/person (code), that’s only 20,000 SF (or roughly 100 x 200 feet). If you add in an extraordinarily generous 10,000 SF for function space (kitchen, A/V, storage, etc) and 10,000 SF for pre-function space, you get a total of 40,000 SF. That’s not even half of 90,000 SF.
Then things get worse. There are no drawings for the building. The renderings are poorly coordinated, and could be done by any architectural intern in less than a week. The exterior shots don’t match the interior. The exterior renderings show a 70 foot tall building, matching the height of the White House. The interior renderings, however, only show a 20 foot tall building. The interior renderings show a size of approximately 20,000 SF, the exterior renderings show a footprint of 4.5x that amount.
There are no drawings, no surveys, no geo reports, no approvals, no MEP plans, no landscaping plans, no bids, and no demo plans. As someone who’s done a ton of renovations, you never demolish without a demo plan - because you don’t know what you want to keep (atheistically or structurally).
In typical Trump fashion, none of this has been thought through in the least. He’s pulling numbers out of his sphincter. Either he’s up to something, or his handlers (Miller and Vought) needed to give Grandpa something to do - quick.
It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that Trump doesn't know a sophisticated data center will be located under his ballroom. The idea of Miller et al. simply giving him something to do while they go about their pernicious business is perfectly plausible. He does have dementia, after all. They need to keep him amused and out of their hair.
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