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You jest but that's how the Bridgewater Hall was built. To ensure that the Hall's carefully designed acoustic remains cocooned from all outside noise and vibration, the entire structure floats free of the ground on almost three hundred, earthquake proof isolation bearings. These sets of mighty steel springs ensure that there is no rigid connection between the 22,500 ton building and its foundations. In the Hall's undercroft, a forest of foundation columns, each capped with a cluster of spring units, create a mysterious silent world as compelling and dramatic as any of The Bridgewater Hall's more public spaces. Apparently it is so well isolated that when the IRA bomb went off no one inside heard or felt it.Originally posted by 7_V
So should you put your house on spikes, superballs, inner tubes, Mana or Hutter? :duck:
Er so do we all have to rebuild our houses as well?
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