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Carefulplease

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Wed Aug-23-06 09:21 PM
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87. Oh Great Master of Spin...

p.s. I'm guessing the "Brazil" building he's thinking of is the Windsor hotel in Madrid, which wasn't steel and in any case didn't lose a single floor.

The Windsor Tower had both a perimeter steel frame and a reinforced concrete core. The core stood and much of the steel frame collapsed together with the concrete slabs it supported. Would the Tower have fared better if the core columns also had been built like the perimeter?

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