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Concrete Failure as Art

Concrete Failure as Art

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

If £300,000 is the going rate for cracked concrete I would have thought all engineers would be multi millionaires

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

Heh:

"Her work aims to highlight divisions in society."

and yet:

"You would struggle to get a hand or foot inside because of the way it is constructed."

In other words, you can step across it...some division.

Artists....jeesh

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

Hmmm.  One of my slabs on metal deck cracked recently, although not as bad as in the pic.  Maybe the Owner wouldn't of been so unhappy if I told him the cracks gave the building deeper inner meaning.  Perhaps I also could have also charged additional fee  for the cracks as they added value and were not in my original Scope. Who knew.

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

You must be smoking crack if you think I'm going to pay to see that crack.

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

Better even, paid to design such a cracked slab!! I guess this may be dream of every engineer.

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

I got a crack out of this post.  

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

lol at all the puns in this thread. You guys are hilarious, I love you!

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

Was this artist the low bidder for the project?  So much for 1% for art.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

I believe they also had to consider the artist's technical score as a winning bidder.

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

Unless this project was in Minneapolis, I detect a crack in your logic.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

What the hell is that, people earning money from our concrete cracks banghead, from tomorrow I'll convert to be an artist rockband


found in flickr




There was no end to the interesting rust, cracked paint and stuff to try and make abstract detail pictures from.




This Abstract is a detail of worn cracked concrete with rust stains. And the white streak on the left, is calcium that has built up from water seeping through cracks in the concrete.

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

We like your pictures, but no money to made here.  Send them to the Tate.

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

Looks more like you've been to Mars.  

Did you go thru a crack in the space-time continuum?

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

I saw the title "Concrete Failure as Art" and I thought for sure the thread would be about the Architecture building at Ohio State. smile

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

"It is an incredibly powerful installation."

Yeah, right.
Incredible, yes, I wouldn't credit it.
Powerful????

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

A concrete crack



luis

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

Were the people who fell in (and suing) paying attention to their satellite navigation computer instead?! By the photo, the crack seems fairly obvious. I can just imagine the courtroom cross-interrogation:

Defense lawyer to plaintiff: "Could you please tell the court exactly how DID you fail to notice the foot-wide crack in the floor that runs the full length of the gallery? Or did you willfully approach the crack with intent to do something that you knew was probably foolish?!"

Jeff

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

Good example of using concrete's natural tendency in a artistic way!!??

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

Philosophically speaking... I guess ACI's minimum temperature & shrinkage steel is government imposed "shackles" for concrete, preventing the true life and beauty of concrete from being free.  Concrete under the control of rebar is a slave to our industrial desires.  I'm going to create a documentary exposing this travesty... maybe I'll win the Nobel for it? :)

RE: Concrete Failure as Art

Are you suggesting that structural engineers are too controlling? sadeyes  I'm depressed.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Concrete Failure as Art


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