Alexander Calder's "La Grande Voile" was built primarily as a wind block to protect one of this man's buildings.
Alexander Calder's "La Grande Voile" was built primarily as a wind block to protect one of this man's buildings. This man used blocky geometric designs to imitate traditional Middle Eastern architecture in his work on Doha's Museum of Modern Art, and created a simple tent-like shape for his Luce Memorial Chapel. He designed the tallest five-sided building in the world, the monolithic JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston, and assisted his son in the design for UCLA Medical Center. This designer of MIT's Green Building turned over to James Freed and Henry (*) Cobb much of the work on the recent NASCAR Hall of Fame building. This architect used deep setbacks and triangular bracings to protect the Bank of China Tower from Shanghai winds. One of his buildings includes a cantilevered theater over Lake Eerie and an orthogonal tower which rises next to one of his trademark features. That feature was also included by this architect as the entranceway to an underground portion of a famous museum. Noted for designing Clevleland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, FTP, name this creator of a glass pyramid at the Louvre, a prominent Chinese-American architect.
Alexander Calder's "La Grande Voile" was built primarily as a wind block to protect one of this man's buildings.
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