When he received the 280 million dollar budget for designing this location, Minoru Yamasaki thought there was an extra zero. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this complex that included the tallest building in the world when it opened in 1972. Daniel Libeskind designed the rebuilding of this complex after the September 11th attacks.
ANSWER: World Trade Center [or WTC; accept One World Trade Center; prompt on Ground Zero; prompt on the Twin Towers]
[10m] Yamasaki designed the Pruitt-Igoe housing development in this city. In this city, Dankmar Adler co-designed a red-brick building that is considered one of the first skyscrapers.
ANSWER: St. Louis (The skyscraper is the Wainwright Building, designed with Louis Sullivan.)
[10h] Yamasaki also designed one of these buildings in St. Louis, whose concrete vaults may have inspired a later architect’s thin shell roof design for one of these buildings in New York City.
ANSWER: airport terminals [accept TWA Flight Center; prompt on Lambert International Airport or JFK International Airport; prompt on airports; prompt on hotels with “what was its original purpose?”]
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