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Easy one to start with. Identify?
Chicago Spire, Chicago - Santiago Calatrava
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Recognise the architect above. What kitchen utensil did he design?
The Leadenhall Building, London, aka. Cheese Grater, a nick name it got
due to its distinctive wedge-shaped profile - Richard Rogers
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To Russia with Love. Identify the two and by Who?
Crystal Island and Russia Tower, Moscow - Norman Foster
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Recognise this Mile High wannabe.
Nakheel Tower, Dubai - Woods Bagot
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Besides being an international symbol of modernist architectural style, this place had
been hailed as one of the best designed public places. Recognise.
Rockefeller Center, NY - Raymond Hood
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ROUND ONE THEME QUESTION
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Quoting Rohan Shetty -
The first 4 of the towers are currently under construction and have been
either halted or cancelled altogether due to the global economic crisis.
Rockefeller center was constructed during the Great Depression 1929-
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1940 (against all odds) with John D. Rockefeller the sole financier
eventually becoming one of the largest real estate holders in NY.
Apart from being skyscrapers, what is the underlying theme of the 5.
Clue. The last one triumphed where the others seem to fail.

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“This is a building you wouldn't
want to get anywhere near at a
cocktail party. Dressed nearly
head to toe in dour granite, and
geometrically proper, it's stiff to
the point of pass-out boredom.
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Out of character with SOM's
current work, the design recalls
the firm's unfortunate
postmodern interlude a decade
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ago.”
-New York Magazine
Recognise the building
and the architect.
David Childs, 383
Madison Avenue,NY
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“Commissioned by a lingerie company, this building has gallery
space, multipurpose hall, cafe, restaurant and bar, salon, and shops. It is known
mostly by the floating ramp that encircles the rear gallery.” Recognise the building
and its architect. Fumihiko Maki, Spiral Building, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
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Being an architectural
theorist and professor for
many years, “X’s” designs
were dismissed by critics as
quot;unbuildable or unduly
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assertive”. The project of the
first competition he won in
1987 was cancelled soon
after the Berlin Wall fell. One
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of his famous works is: (pic on
left).
Recognise “X” and his work.
Daniel Libeskind,
Contemporary Jewish
Museum, San Francisco
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Questions 9/10 together
X + Y + Georgie and Wendy Cheesman = Z
Identify X, Y. And Find – Z.
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X-Richard Rogers, Y-Norman Foster, Z-Team 4
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ROUND TWO THEME QUESTION
ROUND one
Quoting Rohan Shetty -
Daniel Libeskind - Master Plan for WTC site
David Childs - Freedom Tower Architect (Tower 1) from SOM for WTC
Norman Foster - Tower 2 design, WTC
ROUND TWO
Richard Rogers - Tower 3 design, WTC
Fumihiko Maki - Tower 4 design for WTC
Connect the answers to the Five questions in this round.

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