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Not that I can see, but the Citicorp Center in NYC could have if not for emergency actions that were taken

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicorp_Center_engineering_cr...



The whole welding vs bolting consideration is what’s most interesting to me. I’m still in awe the space needle is 100% bolted


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