citigroup-building

id: title: The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper slug: citigroup-building date: 2020-10-17 9:15:00 AM format: Narrative url: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_tower_design_flaw_that_could_have_wiped_out_the_skyscraper.html duration:

In 1978, a young architecture student found a design flaw in a one-year-old NYC skyscraper which meant the building could collapse in a specific wind. Thankfully, the architect who designed the building listened.