"It appears that Pei's uncompromising minimalist design pushed construction technology beyond its capacity. Such failures are not unheard of in modern architecture. Buildings sometimes fail because of incompetence or shoddy workmanship, but the examples that follow failed for a different reason."
Witold Rybczynski in Slate discusses "ambitious architectural failures."
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