Depiction (image 4)

a great deal of the pictures on that page look photoshopped. The first one of the moon from the north pole has appeared on these boards before and was definitively shown to be nothing more than CG.

not a good spot to find out you have a fear of heights!!!

glass floor and walls, a mile drop beneath you..........

only rated to 100 mph winds tho??
surely they would have to be rated higher than that?(altho i have no idea how strong the winds in the canyon could get to)

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Maybe not too often- but for the COST of the structure would they chance it? And tell me if im wrong but the estimated support weight number looked pretty HIGH to me...

Yah, was just looking for a good sized depiction, since haven't spotted any photos yet, even tho it's supposed to open next month.

I didnt look at the rest (ETA: at first- i went right to the one in question)
yeah a LOT are photoshopped and a lot i recognized that actual feature that they altered.

Think its a gag eh?

I hope the gift shop sells brown trousers.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/skywalk.asp

It also includes links to the official site.

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Building standards on the east coast of the US go up to 150mph.

And $25 bucks for the privilege of peeing myself? Pass, thanks. I'll see y'all back at the casino.

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I would agree.

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Perception isn't reality. It's merely an abstraction thereof, and quite often not a very good one at that.

I am human. Fully human.

FYI, the images in the first page of various structures are renderings. Major architectural projects are very commonly rendered as a part of "selling" a client on a design. Its nothing unusual, and certainly not any intended subterfuge.

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.

As Doodler said, of course the photos are photoshopped, it hasn't been built yet. In the old days the architecture firm would make a little cardboad model and maybe some drawings of what it would look like, now a days you can show the client the project on the actual background. There are several paint company websites that you can upload a photo of your house into, and they will show you what it looks like painted different colors - does that prove your house doesn't exist?

The corporation I work for (not my particular company, but other parts of the multi-national corporation) is actually making the glass for the project, so we've seen a lot of it in company publications. The top layer of the multilayer floor is actually removable, so if over time it gets too badly scratched, they can actually replace it. Though I won't shell out the $25 either, I think it is a neat project.

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Just to clarify
the comments about photoshopping refer to the photos in general.
The website doesnt do a good job of clarifying which photos are genuine and which are not- perhaps because they think people will figure it out.
Scroll down on the website page and you will see photoshopped pictures of a variety of known spots that do not have those features (and never will)inluding a strange one of the statue of liberty

That "No fishing from the bridge" sign is genuine though - it's at the Royal Gorge bridge in Canon City CO. It's quite funny, as the river is almost 1100 feet below

Actually, we're moving into a new generation of drafting softwares where the working drawings are no longer what we're primarily crafting. We literally build a full on three dimensional model and the software extracts drawings from it. Pretty wild stuff, but photoshopping is maybe 5 years from obsolete for architectural rendering.

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.

After backpacking and camping in the Grand Canyon and seeing all the awesome views and the little details up close, nothing like that glass bridge peaks my interest, at all.

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Yes; but buildings on the East coast are a lot harder to evacuate than this canyon walk. And buildings falling down, are a HUGE risk compared to this thing falling down, even if empty.

I'm sure they will probably have it closed anytime the wind climbs up, if only to prevent people from being blown off (ok, slim chance, but attorneys will say...)

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Hmm..glass walls and glass floors, I think the odds of someone getting "blown off" are fairly slim.

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Out of curiosity- Would plexi-glass be better than glass?

I likes me air conditionin'.

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