St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Manhattan NYC - this church and its congregation is the reason that Citigroup Center was built on 'stilts'.
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The cantilever exists because the northwest corner of the building site is occupied by St. Peter's Lutheran Church. When Citicorp Center was built in the 1970s, the church allowed Citicorp to demolish the old church building and build the skyscraper under one condition: a new church would have to be built on the same corner, not attached to the Citicorp building and no columns passing through it, because the church wanted to remain on the site of the new development, near one of the intersections.
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Last edited by RobEss; Mar 22, 2021 at 7:35 PM.
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