03-01-2019, 08:38 AM
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Originally posted by PaulW
Bigger than the Astrodome? Do you just make this stuff up or have I misunderstood something?
alohanaia actually said "larger" not "bigger" but both words are kinda fuzzy, eh? By what criteria?
The footprints are not even close.
TMT's footprint is less than 70,000 sq ft.
Houston Astrodome is just under 400,000 sq ft.
Maybe alohanaia meant "taller", but that might not even be true?
TMT is projected to be nearly 18 stories high.
Astrodome is 18 stories high.
But those pesky stories can be anything from 9-25 feet--again a bit fuzzy.
TMT is projected to be 180 feet tall.
Astrodome is 183 feet tall (25 feet below street level and 208 feet above playing field level).
Since TMT is projected to be built at 13,290 ft elevation, it would top out at 13,470 ft. That is 332 ft lower than the summit at 13,802 ft. (You could almost fit the height of two Houston Astrodomes in the gap.)
Too bored to estimate the volume.
In any case, it is quite disingenuous to claim that "The building is larger than the Houston Astrodome."
Cheers,
Kirt