Can you open the windows in skyscrapers?

Why would you want to?


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Pertty sure the answer's no, but this is interesting:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/02/03/birds.clear.danger.ap/

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Ok, the answer's no, because they have air conditioning:

http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/sunbelt/robbins.html

Further, air-conditioning made windows less important. Often architects design buildings with large, ornamental windows that let light in but do not open to let in a breeze as well. Air-conditioning means that they can use large pieces of glass without worrying about whether there is enough shade to cool the building. And then there is the mall, which has few windows and often generic characteristics. Although new, upscale malls are built to be distinctive, they do not necessarily incorporate unique, regional characteristics. Office spaces in the growing urban areas are similarly generic.

I'm sure you could open window in a skyscraper, or any other Operating System..
If you do continue to have probles though, just press ctrl, alt and delete
(Tee-Hee) ;-)

But if you survey people about what they want in their office building, being able to open the windows is top of the list.

Emma

Winds at that height would probably blow the window off its hinges and suck half your paperwork out of the office.

I know, that's the trouble, quite apart from the dangers of anything heavy enough to fall hitting someone below. In Brisbane I stayed in a very tall hotel once with one wall all window but nothing that opened. I'm quite claustrophobic, and actually found it quite difficult to cope with.

Emma

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"heavy enough to fall" as opposed to papers blowing away. Galileo and the leaning tower of Pisa comes to mind...

As my husband is fond of reminding me in the car, "you can't have the windows open and the air conditioning on".



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...although technically I can :)

Well I was just wondering how to escape this whole Christmas malarkey...

Only kidding, just checking as I'd written a passage that involved someone falling out of a window from a skyscraper, but it's gonna need a rewrite. I didn't think they did but it's not easy to find such information on the net.

Anyway thanks Naomi for the info.

Aha, well in that case, Geoff, you want this one:

http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2007/12/skyscraper-windows-damaged-by-winds.html

Well technically he threw himself and I guess he could have smashed the glass, but I've moved him up to the roof now but once again Mrs Mott I thank you ;o)