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The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp Tower
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Distinguished Favorite, 2025 NYC Big Book Award: Nonfiction
How an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New Yorkers
The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof and oddly placed support columns. Designed by one of the top structural engineers in the field, William LeMessurier, the tower would become the crown je...
How an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New Yorkers
The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof and oddly placed support columns. Designed by one of the top structural engineers in the field, William LeMessurier, the tower would become the crown je...
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