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This video (and others like it)…

I would say his work does not compare well at all to Frank Lloyd Wright, other than the fact that there is a sense of boldness with which he carried out his visions. What is missing way too often in Portmans work is a sense of scale as well as a textural approach to materials that were the cornerstone of Wrightian…

Rest In Peace, O King of the Atrium!

It has indeed held up surprisingly well. A few factors that generally not well understood at the time have helped: the indoor ”raw from the forms” concrete walls and structures internally seemed a bit crude and brutal, if not downright Brutalist at the time, now have the effect of highlighting the buildings original…

Which could be considered the most Detroit thing ever.*

A lot of the lower quality 70s modern design hasn’t held up all that well, but Portman’s work still comes across as elegant. The Hyatt at Embarcadero Center is a beautiful building.

The Detroit skyline would look so much different without it. For a 40+ year old design it looks strikingly modern.

Until GM revised the interior of the lower areas, the place was a navigational nightmare. It’s still not great but feels much improved. The wintergarden is a nice addition too, as is the riverwalk and parks that now grace the river front in front of RenCen.

I’m gonna get raked over hot coals for this but I kind of think that productions like these play a very shitty game of saying “EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THIS” and “SUCH AN IMPORTANT AND MOVING SHOW” and then jacking their prices up like crazy due to a completely dumb artificial scarcity.

Per Gold’s Formula and assuming a low flexural strength of 50 psi, 10" of ice will support 5000 lbs.

That is an unbelievably shitty thing to do. Students put their hearts and minds into the cars and it literally becomes their college life. My time in college was literally working on the Baja SAE car (the off road sister of Formula SAE) and copying problem sets from my friends because all my time went into Baja SAE…

So... what would be the point in stealing a FSAE car? I mean, what would anyone do with it? Is there a secondary market for these things?

Yeah, there’s not a good way to covertly sell a used FSAE car, but all of the tools they seem to have had in there could be sold. Hopefully it can be found before it’s all gone.

With how unique everything is for that machine, they might get lucky and track down the thief when they try to craigslist anything.

Wow, that well and truly sucks. I did FSAE for a couple of years before I switched majors. Some of my greatest college memories came from the time spent at the shop or in competitions. It’s the best training there is for anyone in college who is interested in the automotive or motorsports industries.

As a former FSAE team member and someone who had shit stolen from a University parking lot (not at SMU), this makes me doubly mad.

Just a note for the reader:

The Covini C6W. For when understeer really isn’t a problem for you.