Citicorp Tower: [almost] one of the greatest engineering fails of the 20th Century

[Brian Howell]

I'm a fan of architecture. And one of my favorite buildings is Citicorp Center in Manhattan. Its elegant and eccentric design makes it stand out from the buildings around it, even as Manhattan's skyline becomes ever more congested. And it almost came tumbling down because of a critical engineering oversight. 

The link is to an installment of 99% Invisible, a website and now podcast that I always find fascinating.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/structural-integrity/

The embedded link to the New Yorker article doesn't work anymore. But you can read the article at http://people.duke.edu/~hpgavin/cee421/citicorp1.htm instead.