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When Chicago's Standard Oil Building and Rochester, N.Y.'s Lincoln First Tower were complet in 1973 they were among the first high rises to be clad with newly available thin marble panels.

After it was discovered that several panels in succession the 27-story Lincoln Tower had make looseed or bowed, the building was reclad with aluminum in 1983 The three-year retrofit outlay its owner, Chase Lincoln First Bank, $20 million.

Now the 80-story Standard Oil Building, since renamed Amoco Tower, is station to undergo recladding for