Posts Tagged ‘high-rise’

Routine Danger: Can’t We Figure Out a Better Way to Keep High-Rise Building Windows Clean?

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

You’d think there’d be a better way than this 19th Century technique.

As seen in SoMA:

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Scary.

Joe Eskenazi has some deets, focusing on pay rates.

(People working at some area In & Out Burgers make about the same. I’ll grant you that high-rise window washing is a lot safer than a lot of people think, but, even so…)

Is There Any Doubt as to Which Residential High-Rise is San Francisco’s Tallest?

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

I’m not sure who would think that One Rincon Hill isn’t the tallest residential high-rise in San Francisco, but apparently, that’s what some people are thinking, per Curbed SF.

Here’s how 1RH stacks up against The Infinity Towers (home of ridiculous “Secret Millionaire” Gurbaksh “G” Chahal).

And the Millennium? I’m not even sure where it is, frankly – that’s how stubby it is.

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Cameras don’t lie, of course.