Cesar Pelli, the Argentinian-born U.S. architect who designed some of the world’s most famous skyscrapers such as the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the World Financial Center in New York, has died. He was 92.
Pelli and his New Haven, Conn.-based firm have created more than 100 major projects including office buildings, museums, residential towers and libraries. The firm’s best-known work is Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers, twin 88-story skyscrapers linked by a 41st-floor sky bridge. Built in 1998 and standing at 1,483 feet , the glass, steel and reinforced-concrete structures replaced Chicago’s Sears Tower as the world’s tallest buildings.
In addition, Pelli designed the glass-and-steel tower in New York City where the U.S. headquarters of Bloomberg LP, parent of Bloomberg News, is located. The 55-story building in Manhattan also includes luxury apartments. Many of Pelli’s buildings feature colorful or reflective glass and round edges, a deliberate departure from the boxy, straight-edge skyscrapers designed by the previous generation of modern architects.He was among the first building designers to use glass as a nonstructural outer wall, as seen in the facade on the Museum of Modern Art’s adjacent apartment tower in Manhattan.
Pelli then spent a decade in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as an apprentice to famed architect Eero Saarinen, who designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, and the TWA terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, a historic landmark. In 1964, Pelli moved to Los Angeles to become design director for Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall, and four years later, he joined another firm, Gruen Associates.
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