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

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