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If 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.

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