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2. Gateway Arch - Wikipedia

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   Designated NHL. May 28, 1987 [ 4 ] The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, [ 5 ] it is the world's tallest arch [ 4 ] and Missouri's tallest accessible structure.

3. HOK (firm) - Wikipedia

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   HOK was established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1955. [2] The firm is named for its three founding partners: George F. Hellmuth, Gyo Obata and George Kassabaum, all graduates of the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.

4. Old Courthouse (St. Louis) - Wikipedia

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   Added to NRHP. October 15, 1966. The Old St. Louis County Courthouse was built as a combination federal and state courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Missouri's tallest habitable building from 1864 to 1894, it is now part of Gateway Arch National Park and operated by the National Park Service for historical exhibits and events.

5. Pruitt–Igoe - Wikipedia

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   1972–1976. The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe (/ ˈpruːɪt ˈaɪɡoʊ /), were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The complex of 33 eleven-story high rises was designed in the modernist architectural style by Minoru Yamasaki.

6. Architecture of St. Louis - Wikipedia

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   St. Louis was home to a cluster of early skyscrapers during the late 19th century. Two of Louis Sullivan's important early skyscrapers stand among a crop of similar office buildings and department stores built up between 1890 and 1915. His Wainwright Building (1891) features strong base-pediment-shaft massing and an insistently vertical pattern ...

7. Cass Gilbert - Wikipedia

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   Cass Gilbert. Cass Gilbert (November 24, 1859 – May 17, 1934) was an American architect. [1][2][3][4] An early proponent of skyscrapers, his works include the Woolworth Building, the United States Supreme Court building, the state capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas, and West Virginia, the Detroit Public Library, the Saint Louis Art Museum and ...

8. Form follows function - Wikipedia

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   The Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Louis Sullivan and built in 1891, is emblematic of his famous maxim "form follows function".. Form follows function is a principle of design associated with late 19th- and early 20th-century architecture and industrial design in general, which states that the shape of a building or object should primarily relate to its intended ...

9. Isaac S. Taylor - Wikipedia

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   Isaac " Ike " Stacker Taylor (December 31, 1850 – October 28, 1917) was an American architect. He was one of the most important architects in St. Louis and the midwestern United States at the turn of the twentieth century, designing commercial, residential, industrial, and governmental structures. Taylor's career spanned nearly 50 years, the ...