Thanks for that, I was wondering when the info showing what happened would be available. I have to deal with these types of stresses in some of our structures, but on a much smaller scale. Every time a salesman wants to throw a 20' container on top of a 40' container I have to reinforce at the casters all the way down to the foundation piers, which can really bloat the cost of the project.

Thanks, Plankton!

On a different topic: two things I love about Russian architecture:-
i) it looks a little like W European architecture, but is always somehow different
ii) It is neither plastered physically across the globe, nor has it been done-to death in the movies.

This photo is of Ostashkov, a small town on a lake somewhere between Moscow and St. Petersburg. If you'd like a leisurely look at some old buildings, the charming video below is a better guide than me:-

It is ok inside having been on a visit or three, of course they fleece you down and check you i.d.
Not a place for a Holiday really though...:nono:

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Haunted House at the Beach in Biarritz...

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Oldest House in France located in Aveyron, Occitane Region
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Built around the 13th century, this old house in Aveyron, France is still standing and inhabited in today. With it’s unique and beautiful exterior you may be wondering why the upper floors are much bigger than the ground floor. well, during that century they were only required to pay tax on the ground floor square-footage and not the upper floors. Therefore, the smaller the ground floor the cheaper it is on tax....{Quote}

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It looks like a house zombie.

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Some very nice pictures there, Dianne. Thanks.

Here's some post-modern architecture.

What's to like about Epping Forest Council Offices? The way the scale of the building relates to the older house on the left, and the way, centred on the arch, there is a balance between the tower and the rotunda, even though there's no symmetry:-

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The tower and rotunda may not be breath-taking, but up close you can see little details indicating how they have been thought out with great care. Check out the little yellow-framed window thing at the bottom of the tower; vertically, it follows the line of the other tower windows, but is positioned precisely half-way between the brick and the stone, so that it slightly resembles the small square windows over on the rotunda. That's clever and pleasing to the eye on an undramatic scale - rather like the typical Victorian houses, so common across England that they get overlooked:-

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