![]() The tallest building in Los Angeles is opening a 45. LA Skyscraper Offers Thrill Slide in the Sky. Bank Tower, allows thrill seekers to glide from the 70th to the 69th story. The Skyslide, attached to the side of the U.S. Tickets for the Skyslide are available online starting March 18 for $8 (diapers not included). The tallest building in Los Angeles is opening a 45-foot clear glass slide 1,000 feet in the air. “A lot of the structural magic is made possible by the ability to bolt glass components together and have them carry high loads,” Ludvik said. The Skyslide opened last weekend at the 72-storey US Bank Tower, which is the tallest skyscraper both in LA and in California at 1,018 feet (304 metres) high. It's 45-feet long and literally plunges riders from the 70th floor. The wall glass carries weight, while the roof and the floor carry wind and seismic loads. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the Skyslide cost 3.5 million to make and currently hangs 1,018 feet above the ground. 273,478 views The tallest building in Los Angeles is opening a 45-foot clear glass slide 1,000 feet in the air. The structure is bolted together with components that swivel to prevent stresses at the connection points. “It’s built with factors of safety and levels of redundancy which would make the most conservative engineer blush.” Ludvik said that glass is “brittle but is strong like metal,” adding that the key to building big glass structures is “to engineer around the brittleness.” New oversized fabrication technologies allowed them to engineer single pieces of bent and twisted glass made with a chemical strengthening technology that renders it “as strong as structural steel,” he said. “The wonderful contradiction of the slide is that it only feels unsafe,” engineer Michael Ludvik said in an email. LOS ANGELES A renovation will do away with a slide that gave thrill-seekers a brief ride on the outside of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper. ![]() And how exactly is this thing safe, especially in the land of earthquakes?
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