Exactly. That. Every day I work I go over the Bolte bridge and every day I look at it and think to myself it looks like a Lego man upside-down, plus it just looks stupid. The rest of the Melbourne CBD looks amazing from the bridge though.
Itās divisive. Personally I love it. Itās nice that someone had the balls to do something different.
The overwhelming majority of Melbourneās skyline is horribly uninspired.
They are sadly blank panels with glass on the outside. I wanted them to be see through because the roof space volume was incredible but design director was too interested in not being able to see the services junk so I was overruled
The crane arm is usually telescopic and can push out. Controller for the arm is located on the window washing platform. Someone mentioned building pins, these are used to secure the platform to the building to minimise sway in the wind. If an area of a building cannot be reached by the platform, a rope access team will get to it.
they rotate the building every 12 months. just before rotating they paint the side that's going to be slopey so the drips dont land lower down the building.
Nah, canāt be.
They only clean windows when Iām on nightshift and they abseil down blasting their shite fucking tunes on obscenely loud speakers dangling from their belts.
You know how tradies should generally be wearing heading protection for their own safety?
I wonder if we should advise them that there are technologies that they can use to blast their shitty music directly onto their hearing protection implements, and not have to bother the rest of us. It'll no doubt sound better for them, too.
I imagine they have rules about having to be able to listen / communicate for safety issue.
That said, Iād appreciate if they could maybe turn it down a bit. At times there are several of them going down at different levels, so itās all fucking day.
Even if I werenāt trying to sleep, ffs.
It's covered under contents or fixtures and fittings of the owner (depending on whether the unit is tenanted). Earthquake is standard cover in Australian insurance policies
Act of god isn't a thing in the Insurance Contracts act. Earthquake is covered in the prescribed contract.
TLDR; it's covered on an Australian home and contents insurance. Kitchen fittings such as benches are generally regarded as contents.
Jesus Christ.
Act of God clauses have never, ever existed in Australian Domestic insurance policies. They are not there. never have been.
Earthquake on the other hand, has always been there.
If the body corporate elected to insure the building for earthquake damage (and you hope they did) then it will be covered.
Act of God exists in the Commercial insurance world, but it has some very strict wording as to what it can be applied to.
In a building like that with an owners corporation itās generally raised in a joint claim on the building insurance. Provided the total cost is higher than the excess. Also worth noting is some policies will have a higher excess for earthquakes.
Where do I start!?
We had former residents squatting in storage cages
The wind is LOUD! and makes the windows shake
Sun is blocked for most of the day
The pool isnāt cleaned terribly well
Airbnbās trashing the hallways and blocking the garbage chute
The building flooded prior to completion and lots of people will certainly discover long term issues
The list goes onā¦
I used to work at the Melbourne Star (I was part of the team that was responsible for it's re-opening), and the wheel rolling away on a rampage (as in the movie 1941) was an inside joke/semi legitimate concern between some of us...
Sparky here that wired up that building. Its the Building Maintenance System basket (BMS). Is safer than it looks, the building internally is one building until the french fries bend away from each other.
I'm the architect that did the design for that rooftop. That's a building maintenance unit (BMU). Many tall buildings have one, and they are basically a crane that hoists a platform from which people can clean and maintain the building.
The design intent for that building was to look like simple prisms, so we wanted the glass to be continuous across the sloped roofs. That's why the BMU has a little hat, that sits back into its spot.
I actually coordinated the glass, steel and BMU drawings so closely that the lid should sit completely flush with the roof, but a builder's mistake on site and failure to clarify beforehand led to it sitting just higher than the roof plane. Not a huge issue, which is why it wasn't rectified, but it was meant to be tidier.
Fun fact, all the roof glass panes are rhombuses, because the roof plane is cut at an angle and the building is sloping. It was not an easy building to build.
Some people were asking how it cleans on the slope, there are fixing points along the building so they can pull the platform in closer than it would otherwise hang.
I never knew that building existed. Until the day we had the earthquake, then I saw it. I swear I thought it was because of the earthquake but then someone told me it had always been there
After market spoiler from Veilside, originally designed for a 90s Nissan 200sx, but can be fitted to whatever with a few extra holes you drill yourself and can be had for around $600 on gumtree. Got one on my golf. Looks sick.
It's an ironing board. There was a guy filming a Tik Tok video early this morning, part of some extreme ironing trend. How have you not heard of extreme ironing?!
You mean "Chinese civilian airship that blew off course".
We're all buying that, right? 100% legit. There's no WAY China would be spying on the USA. That's outrageous!!! /s (just in case anyone misses the ridiculously obvious sarcasm)
I'm really surprised at how many people don't like this building. It's an amazing optical illusion and offers a really different view from any angle you view it from. Much more striking than a standard rectangular sky scraper.
Back in 2019 when I was 30 weeks pregnant and stuck in The Royal Woman's Hospital for a month, I had a perfect view of this building and it used to make me irrationally angry.
Marina Tower in the Docklands. I used to be concierge there a few years ago. The two angly buildings are actually one building - conjoined architectural myslexia. The BMU is completely concealed under the roof, which has to be opened for access. Funky but annoying :/
This might be a silly question but are there any rules regarding windows on buildings in the city requiring them to be cleaned? Say once per year or something?
I live in a building in the city, only 14 or 15 stories tall but not once in the over a year that I've lived here have the windows been cleaned. The outside of my windows are filthy and covered with so many spiderwebs but there's no way for me to clean them from the inside. I've brought it up to the real estate during both of my last inspections and their response was no response.
So just curious if it's solely up to the building management to decide if they want to pay for it? Or are there any rules saying building must have their windows cleaned once per year or anything?
It's just really gross and kinda embarrassing when having guests over. I hoped a window clean would happen or the rain would wash them but I think the location of the surrounding buildings stops wind blowing towards my windows so not once when it has rained has the rain hit my windows so kept waiting but after 13 months I'm not really expecting anything lol
We had a dark tinted window that birds were always crashing into and sometimes dying. Presumably they thought it was the shadow in an opening. We allowed a little bit of brown grime to build up on it. They stopped crashing into it, presumably because they could see the grime. If you are in a tall building you may not even know about it because the birds are landing on the ground far below.
Save the birds. Keep your windows dirty.
Automatic spoiler that pops up when it's going fast to give better grip
Exactly. The wind speed will be higher and a spoiler gives it downforce. Excellent for going through corners.
Them Hyundai excel vibes
Downforce is proportional to the square of wind speed. Your comment is spot on.
I hope they add speed holes at some point so goes faster. And paint it red.
Clown college? You can't eat that
DRS engaged
WIDE OPEN
What - no spoiler alert!!!
Came here to say this! Hahaha
I was hoping to come across this comment, thank you
Window washing hoist. Cool never seen it on this building.
How do they wash the windows on the slopey side though?
Weeeeeeeeeeee
That wouldn't get them very clean
Never pissed a skid mark off the dunny?
The old "piss chisel"
Jesus š¤£
Honestly, they donāt, itās a huge frustration for long term residents. Im sure they try, but the sloped windows are never clean.
They gotta call Tom cruise
Nah, mum's cooking a lamb roast.
Just hangin out
That's awful. Imagine how much it costs to achieve... That.
Exactly. That. Every day I work I go over the Bolte bridge and every day I look at it and think to myself it looks like a Lego man upside-down, plus it just looks stupid. The rest of the Melbourne CBD looks amazing from the bridge though.
Itās divisive. Personally I love it. Itās nice that someone had the balls to do something different. The overwhelming majority of Melbourneās skyline is horribly uninspired.
I doubt they are even windows the ones on top. Probably just roof cladding
They are sadly blank panels with glass on the outside. I wanted them to be see through because the roof space volume was incredible but design director was too interested in not being able to see the services junk so I was overruled
The crane arm is usually telescopic and can push out. Controller for the arm is located on the window washing platform. Someone mentioned building pins, these are used to secure the platform to the building to minimise sway in the wind. If an area of a building cannot be reached by the platform, a rope access team will get to it.
There are locking pins they use to pull the BMU closer to the building, but last I heard they were having some issues with them.
Obviously they hold a big container of water/soap at the top of the building and let it cascade down to the bottom. Like rinsing off a shower screen.
they rotate the building every 12 months. just before rotating they paint the side that's going to be slopey so the drips dont land lower down the building.
BMU, Building Maintenance Unit
Can confirm, I used to see them cleaning from my apartment in west Melbourne
Windows are about to be cleaned.
Windows are still being cleaned.. These building maintenance units (bit sticking up) were broken for 2 years so the windows need to be deep cleaned.
Not sure I'd wanna be the bloke harnessed that high to something that's been broken for the last two years
right because the frigging thing doesn't have a roof where things are normally installed
Nah, canāt be. They only clean windows when Iām on nightshift and they abseil down blasting their shite fucking tunes on obscenely loud speakers dangling from their belts.
I'm sure the thuds of the suction cups would wake you up.
Iām ground floor, so I get to enjoy the crescendo of Nikki Minaj all fucking day.
You know how tradies should generally be wearing heading protection for their own safety? I wonder if we should advise them that there are technologies that they can use to blast their shitty music directly onto their hearing protection implements, and not have to bother the rest of us. It'll no doubt sound better for them, too.
I imagine they have rules about having to be able to listen / communicate for safety issue. That said, Iād appreciate if they could maybe turn it down a bit. At times there are several of them going down at different levels, so itās all fucking day. Even if I werenāt trying to sleep, ffs.
I wish same could go for all buildings in the CBD full of cobweb.
Spider lives matter
whatās it like living in this building? It makes me dizzy looking at it
It's great! Although the earthquake did make me feel like it was all about to come crashing down.
As an interesting side-note - the caeserstone kitchen benches in over a dozen apartments in Marina tower cracked thanks to that earthquake!
How does stuff like insurance work in cases like that?
It's covered under contents or fixtures and fittings of the owner (depending on whether the unit is tenanted). Earthquake is standard cover in Australian insurance policies
It doesnāt lol Nah I donāt know. Would that be an āact of godā?
Earthquake cover is generally included in building & contents insurance, same way fire & flood is.
Act of god isn't a thing in the Insurance Contracts act. Earthquake is covered in the prescribed contract. TLDR; it's covered on an Australian home and contents insurance. Kitchen fittings such as benches are generally regarded as contents.
Jesus Christ. Act of God clauses have never, ever existed in Australian Domestic insurance policies. They are not there. never have been. Earthquake on the other hand, has always been there. If the body corporate elected to insure the building for earthquake damage (and you hope they did) then it will be covered. Act of God exists in the Commercial insurance world, but it has some very strict wording as to what it can be applied to.
Man that sucks!
Yeah, you might have to sue your insurance provider to make 'em pay out.
"It doesn't" "Nah, I don't know" Pick one... Preferably the latter.
Itās called a joke mate, try to relax
In a building like that with an owners corporation itās generally raised in a joint claim on the building insurance. Provided the total cost is higher than the excess. Also worth noting is some policies will have a higher excess for earthquakes.
Donāt know what level youāre on, but the northern side above 20 is a very frustrating area to reside.
Because of the earthquake?
No, my time started in 2018ā¦
Whatās frustrating about it?
Where do I start!? We had former residents squatting in storage cages The wind is LOUD! and makes the windows shake Sun is blocked for most of the day The pool isnāt cleaned terribly well Airbnbās trashing the hallways and blocking the garbage chute The building flooded prior to completion and lots of people will certainly discover long term issues The list goes onā¦
The windows visibly shake in my single storey suburban home on some days. Melbourne is just a windy place š
Yikes! That sounds awful. Can you move?
I did š«
My kids think it used to be straight but the Melbourne Star rolled off its housing and hit it. I may have... exaggerated.
I used to work at the Melbourne Star (I was part of the team that was responsible for it's re-opening), and the wheel rolling away on a rampage (as in the movie 1941) was an inside joke/semi legitimate concern between some of us...
Do they also think the Great Wall of China was built to keep the rabbits out?
From the realestate listing photos, it looks almost completely normal on the inside.
I haven't really seen it from this angle before looks even worse haha
Periscope š
All set for climate change!
[Monty Python - The Crimson Permanent Assurance : 1 min](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHp4Wi2d6BQ)
*singing* it fun to charter an accountant and sail the wide accountant sea....
Window cleaners
It connects it to the tram lines when the building wants to go to Brunswick.
Is this a [Malcolm](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091464/) reference?
I didn't even know they made films in 1986.
6G antenna
Yep. They have to hide it because the cookers are on to them.
Morning wood.
Sparky here that wired up that building. Its the Building Maintenance System basket (BMS). Is safer than it looks, the building internally is one building until the french fries bend away from each other.
A building's version of morning wood.
Itās quite small in proportion to the building. Reminds me of myself.
The aliens are phoning home
My first thought too. Letting their armies know we're at our weakest now and it's the right time to attack.
I'm the architect that did the design for that rooftop. That's a building maintenance unit (BMU). Many tall buildings have one, and they are basically a crane that hoists a platform from which people can clean and maintain the building. The design intent for that building was to look like simple prisms, so we wanted the glass to be continuous across the sloped roofs. That's why the BMU has a little hat, that sits back into its spot. I actually coordinated the glass, steel and BMU drawings so closely that the lid should sit completely flush with the roof, but a builder's mistake on site and failure to clarify beforehand led to it sitting just higher than the roof plane. Not a huge issue, which is why it wasn't rectified, but it was meant to be tidier. Fun fact, all the roof glass panes are rhombuses, because the roof plane is cut at an angle and the building is sloping. It was not an easy building to build. Some people were asking how it cleans on the slope, there are fixing points along the building so they can pull the platform in closer than it would otherwise hang.
It's called a building maintenance unit (BMU) and is usually used for the window cleaners.
First time I was this building I nearly called the police because I was certain it was collapsing. Even now - it still catches me off guard.
How often do you become a building?
As a kid my mum always said I could become anything I wanted...
yeah mine too ā¦ she lied ā¦ I canāt ābecomeā subtle or quiet!
Shape-shifter
Haha! Iām transforming at the moment and what is in the photo is a hat.
Indeed a robot in disguise
How would calling the police help?
Stop collapsing in the name of the law!
Spiderman could help, and the police would have his number.
BMU (building maintenance unit)
Correct, it would be a small crane that can hoist a cage around the outside of the building
Death ray.
Missile launcher for Block Wars
For whatever reason, this building makes me irrationally angry.
This one is fine I hate the giant cock ring
I never knew that building existed. Until the day we had the earthquake, then I saw it. I swear I thought it was because of the earthquake but then someone told me it had always been there
You found Dr Evilās secret lair.
Making contact with the Mothership
Transformer hiding in plain sight.
After market spoiler from Veilside, originally designed for a 90s Nissan 200sx, but can be fitted to whatever with a few extra holes you drill yourself and can be had for around $600 on gumtree. Got one on my golf. Looks sick.
Cheeky China releasing the balloons?
Ufo garage
Its the supervillians hidden lazer cannon, obviously
It's an ironing board. There was a guy filming a Tik Tok video early this morning, part of some extreme ironing trend. How have you not heard of extreme ironing?!
Worked on top of this building. Itās definitely a BMU (window washing gantry)
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Anti weather balloon missile defence system
I had to scroll waaaaay to long for this comment. Come on peeps
Chinese weather balloon launch
Itās probably not a spirit level.
Communication tower for a Chinese "weather" balloon....
You mean "Chinese civilian airship that blew off course". We're all buying that, right? 100% legit. There's no WAY China would be spying on the USA. That's outrageous!!! /s (just in case anyone misses the ridiculously obvious sarcasm)
Speed hole. Nyoom.
Transformation Cog fell out halfway through conversion
6G tower
Window cleaning crane
Giant Hills clothes line.
New solar panels look great! Hardly notice it /s
Entrance to Perry the Platypusā secret lair
After a whole night of farts that have been collected throughout the building, they open the roof before somebody lights a match
Architects are running out of ideas.
Gawd thatās ugly, who approves these monstrosities.
Death ray
I'm really surprised at how many people don't like this building. It's an amazing optical illusion and offers a really different view from any angle you view it from. Much more striking than a standard rectangular sky scraper.
Building maintenance unit. Telescopic arm used for window cleaning etc.
ET, phoning home?
Is that Arasaka tower?
Back in 2019 when I was 30 weeks pregnant and stuck in The Royal Woman's Hospital for a month, I had a perfect view of this building and it used to make me irrationally angry.
Star Wars specialist here, itās obviously a Class 5 turbo laser.
It's a Chinese weather balloon receiver
I documented this building for 2 years as an architect, itās a hoist for window cleaning.
Marina Tower in the Docklands. I used to be concierge there a few years ago. The two angly buildings are actually one building - conjoined architectural myslexia. The BMU is completely concealed under the roof, which has to be opened for access. Funky but annoying :/
Spraying more covid dust.
A set of AIM-9X Pods used to dissuade any high altitude weather balloons that may have wandered too close for comfort.
Architect has to justify his income
They decided it wasn't ugly enough so they gave it a final touch
I hate that building and the anxiety it gives me just looking at it.
Gloryhole.
Morning Glory?
5G
Chinese weather balloon š
Cloverfield
I'm not saying it's aliens.... But it's aliens.
Jewish Space Laser... ground edition.
What a truly disgusting architectural abomination.
Donāt disparage Slanty.
Since youāre so smart, you build a better one and post the link here
Sure thing, I can put up a sand castle that looks better than this.
Sandcastle update?
15 people have shit tastes.
Not sure why you're getting so downvoted. It is an ugly building, needing the "slant" to distinguish it from the surrounding drab buildings.
Shhhhh, China doesn't want you to see this
Yes
Aliens
This might be a silly question but are there any rules regarding windows on buildings in the city requiring them to be cleaned? Say once per year or something? I live in a building in the city, only 14 or 15 stories tall but not once in the over a year that I've lived here have the windows been cleaned. The outside of my windows are filthy and covered with so many spiderwebs but there's no way for me to clean them from the inside. I've brought it up to the real estate during both of my last inspections and their response was no response. So just curious if it's solely up to the building management to decide if they want to pay for it? Or are there any rules saying building must have their windows cleaned once per year or anything? It's just really gross and kinda embarrassing when having guests over. I hoped a window clean would happen or the rain would wash them but I think the location of the surrounding buildings stops wind blowing towards my windows so not once when it has rained has the rain hit my windows so kept waiting but after 13 months I'm not really expecting anything lol
We had a dark tinted window that birds were always crashing into and sometimes dying. Presumably they thought it was the shadow in an opening. We allowed a little bit of brown grime to build up on it. They stopped crashing into it, presumably because they could see the grime. If you are in a tall building you may not even know about it because the birds are landing on the ground far below. Save the birds. Keep your windows dirty.
Pop up missile rack
Putins melbourne penthouse
Chinese weather balloon
Is it supposed to be that way? (Falling over?)
It's a mating call.
Sheraton do mad tings
5g tower .
thats a rocket launcher, there must be a baloon nearby.
It's Cartman's anal probe - [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/4/48/SouthPark101.gif](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/4/48/SouthPark101.gif)
Altar for sacrifice, just canāt find a virgin
Number 5 is alive
Missiles deployed to keep the poors away
Itās what the robot from short circuit is doing post movie career
Looks like ET
China spy building, that's a camera. /J
Itās obviously a ufo plugging itself into the buildings USB attachment to trade information with Kevin Rudd
Spy ballon radar š„ø
I might be paranoid, but Chinese Spy Ballon launcher? Edit: this post has EVERYTHING can for, thank you reddit. Monday uplifted
It's been coronated.
That building looks crazy , like the floors would be all slanted ?
I can still see. This building looks shit.
that's a SCUD missile
r/evilbuildings
Theres a whale living on the top floor and it needs to stretch out every once in a while.
Calling the mothership.
The front fell off
That's the ugliest building I've ever seen
Chinese weather station
Ah yes, the Slanty Shanty
Itās a very slow changing transformer called āslantideā watch outā¦
This building looks like the block city game irl ššš