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Building Melts Car 151

eionmac writes "A new London skyscraper dubbed the 'Walkie Talkie' has been blamed for reflecting light which melted parts of a car parked on a nearby street."
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Building Melts Car

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  • Cringe! (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @01:39AM (#44743523)

    This building looks exactly like the facetted mirrors for solar power plants. Some idiot probably considered it cute to evoke that image. What's next? Evoking the toppling tower of Pisa in Kyoto?

    How can one be an architect and not recognize the cases where optical similarities imply physical ones?

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