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mia

(8,476 posts) Mon Jan 30, 2012, 06:42 PM Jan 2012

A road runs through it: [View all]

Resourceful Japanese engineers did not let a small matter like a lack of space deter them when they needed to begin a new construction project and managed to build a road through an office block in the city of Osaka.... The highway is the tenant of those floors and actually pays rent....The motorway does not make contact with the building and it passes through as a bridge, held up by supports next to the building.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093903/No-room-road-Japanese-engineers-just-build-straight-middle.html#ixzz1kzJYvPl4

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A road runs through it: [View all] mia Jan 2012 OP

I wonder what the noise and vibration are like. tabatha Jan 2012 #1

I dunno, but sounds like the end to a good date. Ikonoklast Jan 2012 #3

"Architects surrounded the road with a structure to protect the building from noise and vibration. " mia Jan 2012 #5

According to this article in Japanese Wiki, Art_from_Ark Jan 2012 #15

That is freaking awesome! Shankapotomus Jan 2012 #2

Clever, but I wouldn't want to work on the floors above, below, or beside it. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #4

The road does not touch the building. RC Jan 2012 #6

The railroad didn't touch my apartment building either, but it was fucking loud. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #7

That's because the rail road and your apartment building shared something ... A HERETIC I AM Jan 2012 #8

Well, technically so does the "non-touching" roadway and the building, BUT!!! HopeHoops Jan 2012 #9

Japan is earthquake prone. RC Jan 2012 #10

The road is actually in Osaka, not Tokyo Art_from_Ark Jan 2012 #14

Boston almost looked like that until they took the highways out BumRushDaShow Jan 2012 #11

I couldn't do that. Texasgal Jan 2012 #12

If corporations can be people, then roads can be tenants Found in Yonkers Jan 2012 #13

Good luck taking one to court for non-payment of rent. DCKit Jan 2012 #16

Loopholes? No: Found in Yonkers Jan 2012 #17

Q: How do you know when they're fixing the potholes? pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #18