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2022 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
17. Citicorp Tower, New York City, NY, USA
verfasst von : Ömer Akın
Erschienen in: Design Added Value
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Abstract
Citicorp Center building is a 59-story, mid-Manhattan tower well known for its unique urban form. The building is supported by four, nine-story columns located on the center points of the lot lines, rather than the corners that define the block that it occupies. This peculiarity is a result of the deal that the owners had to strike in order to purchase the air rights of the church, which still occupies one of the corners of the site. It was this unique form that caused a series of events, which eventually lead the principal design engineer of the building to discover a major structural flaw. The discovery was surrounded by a certain drama highlighting important professional and DAV issues.