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Originally Posted by kingkirbythe....
The Tower of the Americas was built with a massive design flaw. A public blame game ensued.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/loc...w-17346588.php
Angry letters to the editor filled the pages of San Antonio newspapers. It even came up during Wanda Ford's unsuccessful run for San Antonio City Council. Ford was the former president of the San Antonio Conservation Society and the architect's wife.
Paul Thompson, the legendary front-page tough-guy columnist for the San Antonio Evening News, put the blame squarely on Ford. The architect, who also designed the Murchison Tower at Trinity University, shot back in a letter published in the San Antonio Express, accusing Thompson of spreading misinformation and asking why the city did not come to his defense.
In his letter, Ford said that preliminary designs for a machine that would wash the windows were scrapped due to its high cost and Tower budget problems. |
"It was dubbed the “great window cleaning crisis” of 1969, the year it was revealed that the famous designer of the Tower of the Americas did not provide a means for washing the glass windows from outside the 750-foot monolith in downtown San Antonio.
When the Tower opened during the World’s Fair in April 1968, visitors clambered to see the views from atop what was then the tallest structure San Antonio. But it didn’t take long for the view from behind 12 tons of glass to spoil. The dust and bugs blew against the tophouse windows, and the scorching Texas sun baked it all hard."
Just a couple of points of contention, but I don't consider the Tower to be 750 feet, which includes the antenna. Just my opinion. No need to flame guys.
Second, it is still the "tallest structure San Antonio", especially if you choose to use 750' as it's height.