you can see that the montauk stands up through the use of sheer walls. the brick is arranged so that north-south and east-west, you have a fairly regular grid of walls that prevent the building from racking, swaying in the wind. very effective but space intensive. the brick takes up a great deal of area. brick, at the end of the day, is heavy, it is slow to build with, and bricklayers have a particular reputation of being strike-prone. they had these unrealistic demands like getting half a day off on saturday from working. [laughter] they tended to be reluctant to employ brick than usual. the more brick you have on-site, the more likely that a strike would delay the construction of your building. there are other solutions that take these walls and distill them to what we make think as piers. the same clay that the city builds itself out of is the worst soil to build a heavy skyscraper on. you see solutions to the problems of the foundations in the 1880's. architects and engineers realized that to cope with the original settlement, it is easier if you cal

you can't really afford a $1500 a night place, you can go 30 more miles over to montauk to the montauk yacht club and still get the feel of all of the southfork in new york state. it's really nice. >> a range of places you can spend a significant amount of money. >> absolutely. if your best friend isn't bill gates and you don't have a compound in the hamptons, these lovely inns are a great way to relax. >> what about some of the others? new york city you say is also an option. >> i did a lot of work in boston and philly and charlotte as a recovering political optis. i don't want to go there for fun because it reminds me of work but new york city is amazing. midtown is undergoing a great renovation, revitalization if you will. you can just hang out there. >> we'll have to leave it there. we'll have more on wusa9.com. we're i love the new place. thank you. we used a designer from havertys to help blend all of my stuff with dave's one good chair. i love it. that reminds me of when we blended our furniture. yeah. ryan helped me get all my stuff just the way i like it. and emily helped me g

montauk used cast iron and a wrought iron on its exteriors and floors. the exterior and the central core are made out of hydraulic pressed brick that allows you to go up these 10 stories with relatively small dimensions. you can see the problems right away, though. if you are trying to open up large windows on the exterior, brick is heavy. it is not certainly as strong as iron, and therefore your window sizes are very limited. as you go down the building to the ground floor, where you might want to put shops, retail, the self weight of the brick demand larger and larger piers. the floors that have the most brick, the least glass are the ones at the street level that probably need them the most. you can see that the montauk stands up through the use of sheer walls. the brick is arranged so that north-south and east-west, you have a fairly regular grid of walls that prevent the building from wracking or swaying in the wind at all. very effective but space intensive. the brick takes up a great deal of area. brick, at the end of the day, is heavy, it is slow