[Drcastro]

If you don’t understand blow-through floors and the issue of vortex shedding, please go read up on it.

Obviously, skinny towers have higher susceptibility to the wind, and need engineering answers to prevent seasickness-inducing sway. The big failure with Vista is that they didn’t detect that they had under-designed it until it was already under construction. So rather than integrating the blow through floors into the design nicely like 432 Park, they had to (or decided to) make the compromise we are now seeing. At least they didn’t have to secretly go back and strengthen it at night when it was already occupied, like 601 Lexington.

Personally, I think this tower is impressive and will be more well liked over time, despite its quirks.