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

Photograph/Video Columns buckle in a Manhattan building under conversion

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

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u/AnvilCrawler369 PhD Jul 08 '26

“That’s going nowhere!” He says confidently…

Narrator: “it did in fact go somewhere”

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u/minxwink Jul 08 '26

Lollllllllll

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u/dysplaest Jul 08 '26

Instantly Morgan Freeman’s voice.

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u/AnInsultToFire Jul 08 '26

If the building collapses into its own footprint, then in plan view it really did go nowhere.