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Is This What It Looks Like Inside a Gargoyle?

Or is this the world's designey-est waterspout

By Rain Noe - March 6

in Architecture

Among the many areas in which my knowledge is deficient: Gargoyle plumbing. I've never seen inside a gargoyle, have never seen a building wall from which a gargoyle was removed, and I've certainly never seen a building awaiting a gargoyle installation. So I have no idea how they're constructed.

Swiss architecture firm Piertzovanis Toews posted these images of a building they're working on:

Read the Instagram caption:

Either the Swiss sense of humor is different than I imagined and this is the world's designey-est waterspout, or they are in fact waiting for their gargoyle guy to show up.

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Martin Rosenblum

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Not having done any calculations, I would suspect that the supports are redundant given the stiffness imbued by the shape and thickness of the stainless steel plate. Unless it will be supporting a stone gargoyle.

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  Those 4 M10 bolts would pull out, I'd think.
  
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