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was a Japanese-American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects.[1]

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  1. 105 relations: Acrophobia, Ada Louise Huxtable, American Institute of Architects, Architect, Architectural Record, Auburn, Washington, Bates College, Bloomberg News, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, BOK Tower, Bolling Air Force Base, Cantilever, Carleton College, Century 21 Exposition, Charles Jencks, Chicago Tribune, College of Built Environments, Columbia University, Construction of the World Trade Center, Design by committee, Detroit, Doctor of Fine Arts, Dr. John Archer Library, Edward Durell Stone, Emery Roth, Empire State Building, Encyclopedia.com, Fazlur Rahman Khan, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Garfield High School (Seattle), Glencoe, Illinois, Gothic architecture, Guardian Building, Harrison & Abramovitz, HistoryLink, Honolulu, Internment of Japanese Americans, Issei, Japanese Americans, John Skilling, King Abdulaziz Air Base, Leslie E. Robertson, Lionel Pries, List of works by Minoru Yamasaki, Los Angeles Times, Manhattan, McGregor Memorial Conference Center, Michigan, Modern architecture, ... Expand index (55 more) »

  2. Architects from Detroit
  3. Garfield High School (Seattle) alumni
  4. Minoru Yamasaki buildings
  5. University of Washington College of Built Environments alumni

Acrophobia

Acrophobia, also known as hypsophobia, is an extreme or irrational fear or phobia of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up.

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Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an American architecture critic and writer on architecture.

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American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings.

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Architectural Record

Architectural Record is a US-based monthly magazine dedicated to architecture and interior design.

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Auburn, Washington

Auburn is a city in King County, Washington, United States (with a small portion crossing into neighboring Pierce County).

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Bates College

Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine.

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Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.

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Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Bloomfield Hills is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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BOK Tower

BOK Tower (named for the Bank of Oklahoma; formerly known as One Williams Center) is a skyscraper in Downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. Minoru Yamasaki and BOK Tower are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Bolling Air Force Base

Bolling Air Force Base or Bolling AFB is a United States Air Force base in Washington, D.C. In 2010, it was merged with Naval Support Facility Anacostia to form Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling.

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Cantilever

A cantilever is a rigid structural element that extends horizontally and is unsupported at one end.

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Carleton College

Carleton College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota.

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Century 21 Exposition

The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Charles Jencks

Charles Alexander Jencks (21 June 1939 – 13 October 2019) was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie's Cancer Care Centres.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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College of Built Environments

The College of Built Environments is the architecture and urban planning school of the University of Washington, a public research university in Seattle, Washington.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Construction of the World Trade Center

The construction of the first World Trade Center complex in New York City was conceived as an urban renewal project to help revitalize Lower Manhattan spearheaded by David Rockefeller.

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Design by committee

Design by committee is a pejorative term for a project that has many designers involved but no unifying plan or vision.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Doctor of Fine Arts

Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) is a professional doctoral degree in fine arts.

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Dr. John Archer Library

The Dr.

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Edward Durell Stone

Edward Durell Stone (March 9, 1902 – August 6, 1978) was an American architect known for the formal, highly decorative buildings he designed in the 1950s and 1960s. Minoru Yamasaki and Edward Durell Stone are fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

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Emery Roth

Emery Roth (Róth Imre, died August 20, 1948) was a Hungarian-American architect of Hungarian-Jewish descent who designed many New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details.

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Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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Encyclopedia.com

Encyclopedia.com is an online encyclopedia.

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Fazlur Rahman Khan

Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান, Fazlur Rôhman Khan; 3 April 1929 – 27 March 1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is the headquarters of the Fifth District of the Federal Reserve located in Richmond, Virginia. Minoru Yamasaki and Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Fellow of the American Institute of Architects

Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) is a postnominal title or membership, designating an individual who has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Minoru Yamasaki and fellow of the American Institute of Architects are fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

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Garfield High School (Seattle)

James A. Garfield High School is a public high school in the Seattle Public Schools district of Seattle, Washington.

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Glencoe, Illinois

Glencoe is a lakefront village in northeastern Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Guardian Building

The Guardian Building is a landmark 32-story office skyscraper in the Financial District of downtown Detroit, Michigan.

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Harrison & Abramovitz

Harrison & Abramovitz (also known as Harrison, Fouilhoux & Abramovitz; Harrison, Abramovitz, & Abbe; and Harrison, Abramovitz, & Harris) was an American architectural firm based in New York and active from 1941 through 1976.

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HistoryLink is an online encyclopedia of Washington state history.

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Honolulu

Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.

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Internment of Japanese Americans

During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country.

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Issei

are Japanese immigrants to countries in North America and South America.

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Japanese Americans

are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Minoru Yamasaki and Japanese Americans are American people of Japanese descent.

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John Skilling

John Skilling (October 8, 1921 in Los Angeles, California – March 5, 1998 in Seattle, Washington) was a civil engineer and architect, best known for being the chief structural engineer of the World Trade Center.

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King Abdulaziz Air Base

King Abdulaziz Air Base, also known as Dhahran Air Base and formerly Dhahran International Airport, Dhahran Airport and Dhahran Airfield, is a Royal Saudi Air Force base located in Dhahran in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.

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Leslie E. Robertson

Leslie Earl Robertson (February 12, 1928 – February 11, 2021) was an American engineer.

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Lionel Pries

Lionel H. ("Spike") Pries (June 1, 1897 – April 7, 1968), was a leading architect, artist, and educator in the Pacific Northwest. Minoru Yamasaki and Lionel Pries are architects from Seattle.

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List of works by Minoru Yamasaki

This is a list of works by architect Minoru Yamasaki. Minoru Yamasaki and list of works by Minoru Yamasaki are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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McGregor Memorial Conference Center

The McGregor Memorial Conference Center is an office building located at 495 Ferry Mall, on the campus of Wayne State University in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. Minoru Yamasaki and McGregor Memorial Conference Center are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Modern architecture

Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.

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New Formalism (architecture)

New Formalism is an architectural style that emerged in the United States during the mid-1950s and flowered in the 1960s.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York Harbor

New York Harbor is a bay that covers all of the Upper Bay and an extremely small portion of the Lower Bay.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.

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North Shore Congregation Israel

North Shore Congregation Israel is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 1185 Sheridan Road in Glencoe, on the North Shore of Chicago, in Illinois, in the United States. Minoru Yamasaki and North Shore Congregation Israel are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Northfield, Minnesota

Northfield is a city in Dakota and Rice counties in the State of Minnesota.

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Ornament (art)

In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object.

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Pacific Science Center

Pacific Science Center is an independent, nonprofit science center in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking. Minoru Yamasaki and Pacific Science Center are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Pennsylvania Avenue

Pennsylvania Avenue is a primarily diagonal street in Washington, D.C. that connects the United States Capitol with the White House and then crosses northwest Washington, D.C. to Georgetown.

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Penobscot Building

The Greater Penobscot Building, commonly known as the Penobscot Building, is a class-A office tower in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.

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Peptic ulcer disease

Peptic ulcer disease is a break in the inner lining of the stomach, the first part of the small intestine, or sometimes the lower esophagus.

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Pointed arch

A pointed arch, ogival arch, or Gothic arch is an arch with a pointed crown meet at an angle at the top of the arch.

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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, (PANYNJ; stylized, in logo since 2020, as Port Authority NY NJ) is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United States Congress.

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Prentis Building and DeRoy Auditorium Complex

The Prentis Building and DeRoy Auditorium Complex consists of two educational buildings, the Meyer and Anna Prentis Building and the Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium, located respectively at 5201 and 5203 Cass Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, on the campus of Wayne State University. Minoru Yamasaki and Prentis Building and DeRoy Auditorium Complex are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Pruitt–Igoe

The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe, were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Minoru Yamasaki and Pruitt–Igoe are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Rainier Tower

Rainier Tower is a 41-story, skyscraper in the Metropolitan Tract of Seattle, Washington, at 1301 Fifth Avenue. Minoru Yamasaki and Rainier Tower are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Raymond Loewy

Raymond Loewy (November 5, 1893 – July 14, 1986) was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries.

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Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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Reynolds Group Holdings

Reynolds Group Holdings was a New Zealand based packaging company with roots in the former Reynolds Metals Company, which was the second-largest aluminum company in the United States, and the third-largest in the world.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Salmon cannery

A salmon cannery is a factory that commercially cans salmon.

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Saudi riyal

The Saudi riyal (ريال سعودي) is the currency of Saudi Arabia.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Shreve, Lamb & Harmon

Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, founded as Shreve & Lamb, was an architectural firm best known for designing the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world at the time of its completion in 1931.

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Sky lobby

A sky lobby is an intermediate interchange floor in a skyscraper where people can change from an express elevator that stops only at the sky lobby to a local elevator that stops at a subset of higher floors.

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Slurry wall

A slurry wall is a civil engineering technique used to build reinforced concrete walls in areas of soft earth close to open water, or with a high groundwater table.

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SmithGroup

SmithGroup is an international architectural, engineering and planning firm. Minoru Yamasaki and SmithGroup are architects from Detroit.

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Southfield, Michigan

Southfield is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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St. Louis

St.

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St. Louis Lambert International Airport

St.

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Structural engineer

Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants.

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Taro Yamasaki

Taro Michael Yamasaki (born 19 December 1945) is an American photographer who won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography while working for the Detroit Free Press. Minoru Yamasaki and Taro Yamasaki are American people of Japanese descent.

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Temple Beth El (Detroit)

Temple Beth El is a Reform synagogue located at in Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan, in the United States. Minoru Yamasaki and Temple Beth El (Detroit) are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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The Detroit News

The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Torre Picasso

Torre Picasso (Picasso Tower) is a skyscraper in Madrid, Spain designed by Minoru Yamasaki. Minoru Yamasaki and Torre Picasso are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Troy, Michigan

Troy is a city in Oakland County, Michigan, United States.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and is the 48th-most-populous city in the United States.

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University of Regina

The University of Regina is a public university located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Waikiki

Waikiki (Waikīkī) is a Honolulu neighborhood and its eponymous beach on the south shore of the island of Ookinaahu in the U.S. state of Hawaii.

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Walter P. Reuther Library

The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, located on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, contains millions of primary source documents related to the labor history of the United States, urban affairs, and the Wayne State University Archives.

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Wascana Centre

Wascana Centre is a 930-hectare (9.3 km2/2,300 acre/3.6 mi2) urban park built around Wascana Lake in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, established in 1912 with a design from renowned architect Thomas Mawson. Minoru Yamasaki and Wascana Centre are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Wayne State University

Wayne State University (WSU or simply Wayne) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan.

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Window

A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air.

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World Trade Center (1973–2001)

The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a large complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Minoru Yamasaki and World Trade Center (1973–2001) are Minoru Yamasaki buildings.

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Yamasaki & Associates

Yamasaki Associates, Inc. (also as Minoru Yamasaki Associates, Inc. before 1986) was an architectural firm based in Troy, Michigan.

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See also

Architects from Detroit

Garfield High School (Seattle) alumni

Minoru Yamasaki buildings

University of Washington College of Built Environments alumni

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Yamasaki

Also known as Minori Yamasaki, Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, Yamasaki Associates.

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