[HitmanLV]

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.

[durasell]

the Citicorp thing is one of the great stories of modern architecture. It was a student who discovered the flaw and brought it to the attention of his prof. who brought it to the attention of the developers. They fixed the flaw after the building was built and occupied by, in part, installing a giant concrete counter-weight that slides back and forth on rollers near the top of the building.