He died in St. Helena and now rests beneath a gilded dome which was copied for a city hall beneath which a U.S. president, none too hardy for traveling, laid in state. There are hundreds of what underneath this city hall?

queproblema

Poor old Warren G. Harding never made it home from his Alaskan tour, and lay in state in the San Francisco City Hall, whose dome is modeled after that of Les Invalides, where Napoleon is buried. "The base isolation system of hundreds of rubber and stainless-steel insulators inserted into City Hall's underpinnings has the effect of disrupting seismic waves before they can affect the structure. San Francisco's City Hall is currently the world's second largest base-isolated structure (after the International Terminal at San Francisco International Airport)—a triumph of seismic retrofitting." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_City_Hall Very interesting and well-worded question! Nov 17 08, 12:54 AM

edmund80

Yes, the San Francisco City Hall rests on top of 600 base isolators. When the Big One hits, hundreds will be sheltering there. My preference would be the Asian Art Museum right across the street which also has base isolators (210 of them). Better be trapped with art (and a decent café). http://www.ceitronics.com/New_Pages/treasurypr.html http://www.sfgov.org/site/cityhall_page.asp?id=5790 http://www.dprinc.com/projects/entertainment/detail.cfm?ProjectID=37 Nov 17 08, 1:15 AM