Packet J: Tossup 4

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. (10[1])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 (10[1])cliff dwellings (10[2]-5[2])in his design (10[1]-5[1])for an (10[1])NCAR (10[1])facility. (10[1])This architect (10[1])of Dallas (10[1])City (10[1])Hall and Mesa (10[2])Laboratory (10[2])was (10[2])taken (10[1])on a road (10[1])trip (10[1])by (10[1])Rolling Stone to brainstorm his “glass tent” design for a pyramid (10[2])near (10[2])Lake (10[1])Erie. (10[4])For 10 points, (10[1])Cleveland’s Rock (10[1])and (10[1])Roll (10[4])Hall (10[1])of Fame (10[3])was designed (10[1])by what Chinese-American (10[7])architect? (10[3])■END■ (10[9]0[1])

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