Structural Integrity

The columns of the citicorp center couldn't be built on the buildings corners because of the fact that the building could collapse any minute due to the reason that there was a church on the corner. The major flaw of the building was that the corners were not strong enough for winds. The engineers took in to account if wind hit the walls, but they did not take in account for the corners. If that were to happen then the building could have collapsed, and would have caused a dominoes effect that would have taken down buildings up to midtown. An undergraduate student was the one that found this critical flaw of the corners weakness on the buildings, and when news reporters got wind of this, they tried to make it public.