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Not sure if I understood it correctly - so there's a building that would collapse sooner or later in a very dangerous way, but it's still there after almost 40 years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center#Engineering_c...



When the bug was discovered (by an undergraduate architect major) they worked nights and weekends to weld the bolted joints.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t...


Read the note at the end of the article...




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