16 years
Clever facade design - keeps the sun from the walls and the heat out. Saves a lot of cost for a/c.
French Spiderman
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Just saw this news about "Spiderman" (Alain Robert) climbing a 42-story building in Sao Paulo a couple of days ago:
SAO PAULO, Brazil — A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spiderman" scaled a 42-floor building with his bare hands in Sao Paulo on Wednesday, delighting nearly 2,000 onlookers before being detained by police.
With no safety equipment, Alain Robert crawled down and then back up the facade of the 495-foot Edificio Italia, one of the tallest buildings in South America's biggest city, said Alessandra Soave Costa, one of the building's assistant administrators.
Traffic in front of the iconic building was temporarily interrupted and onlookers cheered as Robert reached the top of the building, where police awaited him, Costa said.
Here is he climbing another building in Barcelona:
His Web site is here.
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16 years
Clever facade design - keeps the sun from the walls and the heat out. Saves a lot of cost for a/c.
easier to climb too. :p
16 years
Speaking of crazy French acrobatics, have you seen these parkour videos? I only learned about it a few months ago...
16 years
The most famous of them is the Yamakasi group...
They even concerned Luc Besson to make a movie called Yamakasi.
The story is a bit tacky but the action parts are quite interesting...
16 years
anyone seen the movie 'district 13'.
AWESOME. urban acrobatics and martial arts. how can you go wrong?
16 years
anyone seen the movie 'district 13'.
AWESOME. urban acrobatics and martial arts. how can you go wrong?
I haven't seen it... will check it out when I get back to the US.
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