Thousands of people passing through a structurally unsound building for years without incident does not make it safe.
But I can honestly tell you I'd be much happier as a small millionaire going on a Disney cruise next week than a bigger one living in a structurally unsound US".
A few structurally unsound bridge timbers can take down the whole thing.
UD: How do new ideas come to you? CK: Well, usually it starts when I notice a structure that provokes a thought or two or when I notice a structure that's structurally unsound or has fallen.
He is a co-author of "Structurally Unsound: Cyclical and Structural Deficits in California and the Intermountain West," a co-production of Brookings Mountain West and the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University.
Twenty-five yeafterfthe the disaster, the Chernobyl nuclear reactors lie inside a shaky and structurally unsound concrete sarcophagus at the center of the Exclusion Zone, awaiting the day hundreds or thousands of years from now when the dangerously irradiated area will be safely habitable once more.
My favorite section, "Wild ARTchitecture," spotlights eccentric buildings, like Ryugyong Hotel, an unfinished, possibly structurally unsound, pyramidal hotel in North Korea, or an upside-down house in Germany, or the Longaberger Basket Company's headquarters in Newark, Ohio, which is built in the shape of what?
Breeding practices, motivated by the enormous sums paid for élite bloodlines, have produced a modern thoroughbred that is structurally unsound.
"If we get to a point where it is structurally unsound we would have to take it down rather than risk it falling on the house," Ms. Verone said.
The Wolves did not exactly have many superior offensive alternatives, but Beasley's ball-stopping may have been the final blow to an offensive system that was structurally unsound.
The hotel that hosted Cyprus's colonial-era rich – boasting luxurious en-suite bedrooms and a swimming pool whose opening became a high-society event – is now so structurally unsound that the UN peacekeepers garrisoned in the building for the past 45 years are having to call it a day.
