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New York's $1.4B Pencil Towers are Swaying Out of Control — Their Fix Made it Worse

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New York's $1.4B Pencil Towers are Swaying Out of Control — Their Fix Made it Worse

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📖 Sources & Further Reading: Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail: https://amzn.to/3PD4AXY Megaprojects and Risk: https://amzn.to/49khnVM Misbuilt covers the engineering failures, cost overruns, and cover-ups behind America's most troubled megaprojects. New documentaries weekly. Subscribe for more:    / @misbuilt-us   New York's $1.4 billion pencil towers on Billionaires' Row were sold as an engineering breakthrough — the structural problem of building a 1,396-foot residential tower on a 93-foot base, they said, had been solved. The fix built into 432 Park Avenue's architecture is now the source of the flooding, the noise, and the two lawsuits totalling $290 million that residents have filed against the developers. For business inquiries: corinthianyt67@gmail.com