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Poor little billionaires: The design challenges of high-rise buildings

James Biber
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9 min readFeb 13, 2021

432 Park Ave supertall tower
432 Park Avenue, the center point of the super tall failures
Lobby of Woolworth Building showing church-like interior
‘Crossing’ at the Woolworth ‘Cathedral of Commerce’

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Written by James Biber

NYC architect: making (buildings, dinner, interiors, spoons) writing (books, essays, articles, post it notes) teaching (students, dogs) living (NYC, Upstate NY)

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I get your use of narrative with TMD and building structural movement. However, the TMD losing power was not the reason behind why the Citicorp Building was reinforced after it was already occupied and in use.
The student who researched the…

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