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His building in Seattle is really wacky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Tower

Hopefully they used a slightly different literal design, because the WTC had serious design flaws that allowed it to fall as it did.

Basically, it's columns along the outside held together only by the floors' structure themselves. So when a plane took out a bunch of floors and the fire weakened more, there was suddenly an entire middle section that didn't have any lateral support. This allowed the colimns along those sections to accordion in/out to begin the fall. Since buildings aren't made to have dynamic forces of the scale of the entire freaking building's weight, that made even the structurally sound sections fail on impact as the upper floors came down ontop of them, etc.

There were also compounding construction issues, as the fire resistant coating was supposed to be sprayed directly on to the steel floor beams up to a minimum depth, but investigations even before the collapse showed the builders were lazy fucks and just sprayed large sections from one vantage point, leaving some areas thinner or not covered at all.

If they used a similar design, something as simple as a typical fire could cause the whole thing to collapse.

Neat, I was visiting the area last September and took a photo!

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We have an opportunity to do the funniest thing…

Take alone the either of the twin towers were a perfectly boring tower that shouldn't exist, the hide that fact by making two of them so it's not surprising that is is a cookie cutter design.

Ayyy i used to work there

There are two towers in Century City by the same designer, although their design isn't as similar, and they are triangular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Plaza_Towers

You just made it a target for terrorists with low ambition.