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Ricardo Legorreta dies at 80; Mexican modernist architect

Ricardo Legorreta, the architect who introduced Mexican modernism to a global audience and who brought his crisp, brightly colored aesthetic to downtown Los Angeles with a controversial 1993 redesign of Pershing Square, has died. He was 8 [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Gene R. Summers dies at 83; architect renovated L.A. Biltmor...

Gene R. Summers, an architect and developer who undertook the first major renovation of the historic Biltmore Hotel, reviving interest in downtown Los Angeles and helping to spark its revitalization, has died. He was 83. Summers, who reti [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Gene Summers, architect of McCormick Place, dies at 83

Architect Gene Summers, whose flat-roofed lakeside McCormick Place building has been one of the city's most powerful expressions of modernism--and a target for open space advocates and a former mayor--since its completion in 1971, has [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Anthony J. Lumsden dies at 83; Southern California architect

Anthony J. Lumsden, a prolific Southern California architect who helped develop new ways of wrapping buildings in smooth glass skins, accelerating a shift that reshaped skylines around the world, died Sept. 22 in Los Angeles. He was 83. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Minnesota architect and U prof Leonard Parker dies

Leonard Parker, a Minnesota architect who taught at his alma mater, the University of Minnesota, for decades, died July 25. Parker built many notable structures across the state, including the U's Mondale Hall and the Humphrey School [...]

Posted On : Jul, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Shanghai Readies for 2010 World Expo

This ancient Chinese city is on tenterhooks – racing against time to complete work for the Shanghai 2010 World Expo. Massive construction and advertising around this city of 32 million people are a sure sign of what awaits exhibitors [...]