Architecture Watch: Manhattan's Citicorp Center gets a sturdier leg. Roughly the 24th anniversary of the quiet panic surrounding the realization that the building was in grave danger of being toppled by an approaching hurricane, which prompted welders to stiffen in clandestinely during the night. Here's yesterdays NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/15/nyregion/15TOWE.html
And the website for PBS' documentary that featured the bizarre '78 episode:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/citicorp.html
My pictures of the building last summer:
http://nbierma-ny.freeservers.com/pictures/citicorp.html
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