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To: TigerLikesRooster

Probably not enough rebar in the concrete.


3 posted on 07/20/2011 4:40:40 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver
It's kind of long and thin:

Compared with other buildings, it is said to have more steel and less concrete.

5 posted on 07/20/2011 4:48:29 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: driftdiver

I wonder if it has something to do with the resonant frequency of the building. This is one of the reasons that you don’t march an army over a bridge.


8 posted on 07/20/2011 4:57:49 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: driftdiver
Probably not enough rebar in the concrete.

Probably got billed for it, it just never made its way into the concrete.

10 posted on 07/20/2011 5:08:57 AM PDT by csvset
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