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To: HitmanLV

p.s.

Not crazy about Citicorp either, but it gets a pass from me because idiots designed it and they didn't know any better.


63 posted on 11/01/2006 9:26:45 AM PST by durasell (!)
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To: durasell
Citicorp is grotesque if you ask me. A building on stilts - just what the doctor ordered for the War on Terror 21st Century!

I saw a docu on public tv (of all things) about the construction of Citicorp. Turns out that well into construction of it a significant structural flaw was discovered using some kind of primitive computer models (the computers were primitive, not the models). Evidently if a good stiff wind hit the building over a certain speed at a certain spot, it would tilt over and maybe worse.

Sheesh, somebody forgot to carry a 3 or something when designing it. Ugly building.
66 posted on 11/01/2006 9:35:29 AM PST by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do succeed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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