A flyover THROUGH an office block !

The 16-storey Gate Tower Building in the city of Osaka has a busy fly-over running straight through the ground floor as this amazing picture shows.The building has a double core construction, with a circular cross section and the Umeda Exit of the Ikeda Route of the Hanshin Expressway system passes between the fifth and seventh floors.

The highway is the tenant of those floors and actually pays rent.
The lift even passes through the floors without stopping, floor 4 being followed by floor 8.
The floors through which the highway passes consist of elevators, stairways and machinery.
The motorway does not make contact with the building and it passes through as a bridge, held up by supports next to the building.
Architects surrounded the road with a structure to protect the building from noise and vibration.

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