Midtown Manhattan building
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Midtown Manhattan buildings evacuated after beams found buckling at high-rise construction site
At least 9 buildings have been evacuated in Midtown, including a school and a hotel.
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Those pictures are terrifying!
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Stacking new floors onto an older building sounds risky. Is it done often?
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I thought they are just converting the building from office to residential and that they are modifying structure to do the conversion. I missed that they are adding stories to it.
The Fire Department of New York said it received reports of bricks falling at around 8 a.m. from the 37-story tower. Officials found two columns had buckled on the 21st and 22nd floors and that floors were sagging between the 21st and 26th floors.
The office-to-residential conversion has been billed as the largest in the city’s history, according to Gensler, the architectural firm leading the project. The planned complex with more than 1,600 units includes adding more than a dozen stories atop the building’s original tower while also redesigning an adjoining tower.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/nyc-high-rise-unstable-columns-evacuations.html
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I thought they are just converting the building from office to residential and that they are modifying structure to do the conversion. I missed that they are adding stories to it.
The Fire Department of New York said it received reports of bricks falling at around 8 a.m. from the 37-story tower. Officials found two columns had buckled on the 21st and 22nd floors and that floors were sagging between the 21st and 26th floors.
The office-to-residential conversion has been billed as the largest in the city’s history, according to Gensler, the architectural firm leading the project. The planned complex with more than 1,600 units includes adding more than a dozen stories atop the building’s original tower while also redesigning an adjoining tower.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/nyc-high-rise-unstable-columns-evacuations.html
I thought they are just converting the building from office to residential and that they are modifying structure to do the conversion. I missed that they are adding stories to it.
Yeah, I am under the impression that, unit area for unit area, commercial buildings are usually built to withstand more load than residential buildings. I hope whichever engineering firm signed off on "adding stories" have good technical evidence to defend it.
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Stacking new floors onto an older building sounds risky. Is it done often?
@RealPlayer I don't think it's unusual. Engineers figure it out. But what I've read is that the developers of this construction have racked up several violations and have deviated from agreed upon plans. Don't take my word for it though.
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