This reminds me of 750 7th ave in NY. A lot of Morgan Stanley IT was (is?) houses there. Rumor had it the building design was copied from a building in Texas.

This reminds me of 750 7th ave in NY. A lot of Morgan Stanley IT was (is?) houses there. Rumor had it the building design was copied from a building in Texas. The problem? The beautiful terraced glass surfaces had a tendency to pick up snow and ice in the winter, which as it melted would then tend to slide off the building and crash into the sidewalk below. After heavy snow storms they had to cordone off the sidewalks so pedestrians weren’t speared to by giant icicles falling from the sky. Lesson: environmental context matters in building design. But even big time architects can goof in big ways (see also the Citibank building debacle).