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Apr. 15th, 2014 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficIf you want to hear a good story about architecture, check this out.
Short version: The Citicorp Tower in New York, as it was originally built, was so vulnerable to wind that a wind storm strong enough to topple it came through New York on average once every sixteen years. We came this close to a major New York skyscraper blowing over and taking ten blocks with it.
Short version: The Citicorp Tower in New York, as it was originally built, was so vulnerable to wind that a wind storm strong enough to topple it came through New York on average once every sixteen years. We came this close to a major New York skyscraper blowing over and taking ten blocks with it.