London skyscraper that turned the nearby street into a hot frying pan, broke the record of the Valley of Death

The unfinished 37-storey business center Walkie Talkie became the main celebrity of London last week. Reflecting in their glass walls the sun, he suddenly began to melt a variety of subjects in the next street: cars, bikes, furniture in the cafe opposite. This skyscraper has already been nicknamed the Walkie Scorchie (from the English. scorch - "to singe"). Many Londoners it's fun - they jokingly come to warm food on the curbs. The owners of the affected property are outraged and wonder how it was possible to build, is unclear. The architects justified, remembering similar situations in other countries.

Skyscraper on Fenchurch street in Central London, which developers must pass in the next year, South side has a concave mirror facade, imitating the form of ancient mobile radios "walkie-talkie". This architectural concavity catches and so powerfully reflects the rays of the sun that the temperature in the concentrated beam reaches record 69.8 per degree Celsius. The Telegraph notes that this is an absolute record in the wild - a hundred years ago in Death Valley was recorded the maximum temperature at 56.7 degrees.

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