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.)
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)
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.")
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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