In the face of the heightened attention that Hugh Stubbin's Citicorp Center has received since this weekend's terror alerts were issued, MemeFirst looks back at the structural retrofit that was required when the building was new, after a student writing a research paper helped alert structural engineer William LeMessurier to potential wind loading problems with the building's design.
You can read an account of LeMessurier's actions, the discovery, and the retrofit process (at one point including an evacuation plan for a ten-block radius, in case the tower fell!) here and here.
RELATED: see slate for "Citi-Cursed: The back story of al-Qaida's latest New York target" by Christopher Hawthorne.
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