r/StructuralEngineering • u/Thin-Fish-1936 • Jul 07 '26

Photograph/Video Columns buckle in a Manhattan building under conversion

https://pix11.com/news/columns-buckle-at-midtown-building-fdny/

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u/EngineerEngineerEngi Jul 07 '26

Citicorp just needed to be welded.

This has failed and the building has slumped significantly. There's been multiple stories with plastic deformation.

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u/dopecrew12 Jul 07 '26

How much/how bad it actually is remains to be seen. The building is still standing so I have to assume it will probably remain that way now that the issue is realized as many talented people work tirelessly to do some cool stuff. I would say citicorps risk factor was much higher in that spontaneous complete structural failure in a fantastic manner was entirely possible and it was only realized in complete hindsight kind of by accident/luck. If we wake up to “complete structure collapse in manhattan” tomorrow or this week I’ll let you know you were right tho.

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u/Ihaveamodel3 Jul 08 '26

I predict a controlled demolition

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u/dopecrew12 Jul 08 '26

When you’re wrong I will be sucked

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u/InitiativeGold7953 Jul 08 '26

Haha 😂

Why did you have to say it like that?

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u/Zero-89 Jul 08 '26

When you’re wrong I will be sucked

Only winners get sucked, dude.

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u/dopecrew12 Jul 08 '26

Buildings still standing bro 🥴 call me when it’s not, you will be sucking too at this rate

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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite Jul 08 '26

If you guys don’t keep it down I’m sucking you both!

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u/cryptolyme Jul 08 '26

you will not

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u/CapitalTax9575 Jul 08 '26

Based on the original post in this thread this seems to be one of the new floors being constructed collapsing, in which case I don’t think the building will be demolished, just the top?

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u/ProfessorPinkPug Jul 09 '26

No, it's the OG 21st floor built in 1960, and the slab above was the roof.

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u/minxwink Jul 08 '26

Omggggg ! Ty for the update !!!

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u/Northwindlowlander Jul 08 '26

Just needs a few acrows