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| COOL building is Smith Tower in Pioneer Square.
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| It's an awesome building from the 1800's that is full of offices and
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| such. It'd be like the Baxter Building!
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| additionally (when I visited it with my brother a month ago) they
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| told the story that there is a real "mansion" style apartment in the
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| top "pyramid" of the building. Currently a guy, his wife and new baby
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| live there. There's apparently a "globe" on the very top that a small
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| group of people can get up in for a 360 opague glodal view of Seattle!
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| I really like the Smith Tower for an HQ... check out my notes/ideas...
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| here's a pic...
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| http://www.emporis.com/en/il/to/sh/?ar=1&na=Smith+Tower&ci=Seattle&button=Empori\
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| http://www.smithtower.com/Facts.html
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Tower
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| http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/US/WA/SeattleSmithTower.html
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| http://www.shellbackltd.com/pages2/thumb/image/g8.jpg
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| http://www.shellbackltd.com/pages2/thumb/image/g1.jpg
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| http://aurorastudios.typepad.com/photos/aurora_1/smith_tower_1.jpg
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| mixed with .....
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| http://members.fortunecity.com/dm_bishop2/marvel/baxter002.JPG
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| http://www.terrydivyak.com/gallery/export/html/photos/Stock_Seattle_DSC_0458.jpg
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| Built: 1911-1914
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| Floors: 42
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| Maximum height: 522 feet
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| Weight: 48,650 tons
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| Location: 506 Second Avenue
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| a high-rise industrial site
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| the top five floors of the building perfect for their needs
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| In the lobby has an express elevator to the top five floors which can
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| only be accessed by a solenoid activator carried in the team's
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| identa-chips. This elevator is equipped with scanners used to identify
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| the passengers as well as detect concealed weapons. The other
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| elevators only go as high as the 37th floor, which is the team's
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| reception area. Here a visitor would be greeted by the team
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| receptionist and security and scanned.
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| The building is divided between regular tenants and the team's
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| headquarters.
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| Floors 34-36 are a buffer zone. Tenants on these floors do not have
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| 99-year leases; they must renew on a yearly basis. This provides the
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| team with room for future expansion when they finally outgrow their
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| present area.
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| Floors 37-42 and the 3 story pyramid and top globe serve as the team's
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| headquarters.
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| The 38th floor is the living quarters and laid out much like any large
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| Seattle apartment. The 39th floor has some more living quarters, art
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| studio, the library, the reference room, etc. Floor 39 acts as an inn;
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| guest suites fill this usually unoccupied floor. Two suites can by
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| water-filled and maintained for aquatic visitors or other extreme
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| enviromental conditions such as Atlanteans or Moon People. Other
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| facilities include the kitchen, pantry, spa, two gymnasia (one for
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| normal strength levels, the other for super-strong users), a large
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| library, and a computerized classroom. 40th floor is primarily for
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| workshops and laboratories; the floorplan changes frequently with
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| experiments. The computer and monitor banks, communications center,
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| briefing room are located on the 41st floor and is considered the
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| actual headquarters. It function as the team's command center. Meeting
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| rooms, communications stations, links to Starcore and other
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| astronomical organizations, and a computerized medical station are
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| here.The 42nd is the hangar bay and machine shop.
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| Basement
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| The foundation reaches 150' into the Pioneer Square Underground and
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| bedrock. There are ten floors here. Sublevels 1-2 are used by the
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| building's maintenance staff. Sublevels 3-4 contain the freight docks
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| and tenant warehouse facilities. A railroad spur enables large masses
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| of freight to be moved in or out without the need to deal with the
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| Seattle traffic.
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| Sublevels 5-15 are restricted to the team. These floors contain
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| special devices and support facilities for floors 37th and up floors.
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| These include a back-up computer system, generators, holding cells,
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| and any large items the team might not want on the upper floors.
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| Sublevel 5 contains the waterfilled conduit that reaches the Pudget
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| Sound; this permits aquatic visitors to directly reach the tower
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| without suffering the indignity of having to swim through the sewer
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| system.
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| The basic structure of the tower consists of various combinations of
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| reinforced concrete, steel, and other durable materials. Floors 1-36
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| are fairly normal construction. Floors 37th and up floors are
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| somewhat sturdier. Some internal walls are further reinforced.
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| Floors 20, 37, and 42 contain the mechanical facilities for the
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| building's ventilation and plumbing systems. The ventilation system
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| contains an auxiliary oxygen supply and air recycling system that can
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| maintain a breathable atmosphere within the building for days.
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| An empty elevator shaft runs the height of the building. It is for the
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| use of other members of the team who need to quickly get to any other
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| floor. It is only for use by those with the means to travel through
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| the air or along walls. Safeguards in the shaft can detect and catch
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| anyone falling down the shaft; sensors are able to differentiate
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| between a freefall and controlled downward flight. In the event of a
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| freefall, nets spring out from the sides.
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| The tower has a series of breakaway points. These unoccupied floors
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| have special destruct devices that will separate sections of the
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| building. The idea is that if the team's headquarters were drawn into
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| space, these devices would detach the lower civilian floors, which
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| would hopefully remain attached to the ground. The breakaway points
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| are located on floors 21 and 37.
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