Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/07/tall-buildings-with-their-lyin.html
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And an aluminium one at that.
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Woah woah woah…all this nakedness should be labeled NSFW!
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We need to see the architects naked to really know whose is bigger.
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I don’t consider the Empire State Building spire as a “lying” one since it was originally built as a boarding dock for airships.
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I think the Chrysler spire was jacked up from inside the building after outside construction was completed, to give the middle finger to the building it replaced.
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But was it ever successfully used in that capacity?
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That’s true, it wasn’t used in that capacity, and was kind of a PR stunt.
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Man, I fuckin’love Zeppelins. If I were a supervillain, I would absolutely have a flying gin palace. With cannons and biplanes on hooks like a matinee villain.
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There’s a famous fake photo. It was actually done once for three hairy minutes.
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Have you seen many architects clothed? I think I’m alright. 
Did you read the caption on that photo? The photo is faked (a composite). The one time a dirigible “docked” it was a much smaller blimp, and there was no way to take on or off passengers or cargo, because unlike some zeppelins, there is no way to get to the nose of a blimp from the gondola.
Yes. Yes, I did.
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Yes! All buildings and architecture would be better if they had flat roofs universally! That would be so interesting!
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But the idea did seem to have at least a veneer of practical considerations given to it:
And mooring masts had been built before:
But as far as practical limitations:
And that was on the ground at Lakehurst.
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What’d make me the villain would be my annoying tendency to fly no higher than 20 feet off the ground. 
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Oops, that’s what I get for reading too fast. I missed the “fake” in your post.
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When they’re adding all these frills, I hope that they re-run the wind-loading calculations, carefully.
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