New and Old #236

Earthquake-proofing building, curbside car rentals, Disney modernism, and tiny television tubes

At Risk in a Big Quake: 39 of San Francisco’s Top High Rises, Thomas Fuller, June 14, 2018

Engineers have known about a major defect in certain steel-frame buildings since 1994, when shaking from the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles fractured critical joints in more than 60 buildings, bringing at least one very close to collapse. The building code wa…