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The first curtain wall to be designed by computer was in this architect’s limestone- and marble-heavy design for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. This architect designed the Fountain Place skyscraper in that same city, where this architect added a redundant set of oval columns to a political office to assuage the mayor’s fears that the 34-degree slope of its “inverted” walls was unstable. This architect used pink-tinted, bush-hammered concrete to emulate Anasazi cliff dwellings in his design (-5[1])for an NCAR facility. This architect of Dallas (10[1])City Hall and Mesa Laboratory was taken on a road trip by Rolling Stone to brainstorm his “glass tent” design for a pyramid near Lake Erie. For 10 points, Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was designed (10[1])by what Chinese-American (10[2])architect? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: I. M. Pei [or Ieoh Ming Pei]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Cormac BeirneLSEBristol77-5
Andrei HuiCambridge BSheffield8510
Michael WuSouthampton BImperial A12310
Eveline OngOxford AImperial B12610
Elliot CosnettOxford BWarwick A12610
Kai MadgwickManchesterCambridge E12710
Zayyan MahmoodSouthampton ACambridge D12810
Hamish CampbellDurhamCambridge A12810
Kevin FlanaganBristolLSE12810
Tobin PayneWarwick BOxford C12810

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