Tag: public buildings

• Willis Tower’s glazed floor cracks. How reasonable is the fear of breaking through?

  

  Scary News: The glazed platform of Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in Chicago, 103 stories up, on top of one of the tallest skyscrapers suddenly cracked under the feet of a family. The news went viral although only the thin protective layer of the glazed platform was affected, not the supporting panels. But are glazed floors more…

  Fabian Dembski

  June 2, 2014

  Architecture, Articles, barrier free

  acrophobia, fear of breaking through, glass, glazed floor, Leopold Museum, public buildings, Sears Tower, sky deck, usability, visual cliff, Willis Tower