[in-enaction] obit: Hugh Stubbins, Jr.

Hugh Stubbins, Jr., the Cambridge, Massachusetts, architect who died on 
July 5 at age 94, will best be remembered for the slant-topped Citicorp 
Center in midtown Manhattan. The slender, 914-foot tower was designed to 
snap the boredom of what Stubbins called "the new, slick, slab buildings 
that march up the avenues." Completed in 1978, Citicorp was clad in 
alternating bands of aluminum and glass and capped by a 160-foot-high 
roof pitched at 45 degrees. Its large public plaza—which provided enough 
airspace at ground level to build a new St. Peter’s Lutheran Church—and 
unique three-story market energized the streetscape.

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