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  2. Imperial Oil Building - Wikipedia

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    The architectural model for this building was originally a proposed design for a new Toronto City Hall. However, Nathan Phillips, Toronto's mayor in 1955, rejected the Mathers and Haldenby design for city hall and opened the commission to an international competition that was eventually won by Finnish architect Viljo Revell. Imperial Oil, in ...

  3. Dingbat (building) - Wikipedia

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    Dingbat building named "The Mary & Jane" with styled balconies A stucco box. In a 1998 Los Angeles Times editorial about the area's evolving standards for development, the birth of the dingbat is retold (as a cautionary tale): "By mid-century, a development-driven southern California was in full stride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops, draining waterways and filling in wetlands ...

  4. Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

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    The General Services Administration (GSA) held a competition in 1982 to select a design for a 10-story office building to replace the parking lot, but planning bodies refused to approve the plan. [5] Plans for construction of an office building on the Federal Triangle parking lot site found support in 1986.

  5. Architectural model - Wikipedia

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    The invention of architectural models made of cork was self-attributed to Augusto Rosa (1738–1784), but Giovanni Altieri (documented 1766–1790) and Antonio Chichi (1743–1816) were already active in Rome as manufacturers of cork models. Chichi's models were copied by Carl May (1747–1822) and his son Georg Heinrich May (1790–1853).

  6. Infill - Wikipedia

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    A parking lot in Manhattan adjacent to multi-story buildings. Such vacant lots are often temporary, the old buildings having been demolished for infill development. Infill development is sometimes a part of gentrification thus providing a source of confusion which may explain social opposition to infill development.

  7. The Ziggurat - Wikipedia

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    The Ziggurat is a ten-story, stepped pyramidal office building and adjacent five-story concrete parking structure located at 707 3rd Street in West Sacramento, California, on the shore of the Sacramento River. Designed by Sacramento architect Edwin Kado [1] to resemble the ancient Mesopotamian ziggurats, the building was built by The Money ...

  8. Habitat 67 - Wikipedia

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    Habitat 67 comprises 354 identical, [9] prefabricated concrete forms (11.7 m × 5.3 m × 3 m [38 ft 5 in × 17 ft 5 in × 9 ft 10 in]) [9] arranged in various combinations, divided into three pyramids, [10] [9] reaching up to 12 residential storeys, with a parking level, and a building services level.

  9. Richard Tenguerian - Wikipedia

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    Richard Tenguerian (Armenian: Տիգրան Թընկըրեան; born, August 3, 1955) is an architectural model maker of Armenian descent.Some of his notable physical models include the Kingdom Center in Riyadh (1998), Yankee Stadium in New York (2006), The Sail @ Marina Bay in Singapore (2007), and Comcast Center in Philadelphia (2008).