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Chinese architect, i. Mother. Was born on May 16 at the Manhattan Hospital in America at the age of 102 and starred in his landmark projects of world cultural centers that dazzled the world and opened a new door to modern architecture.
One of Mr. B's most important works, Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, The Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong and the Louvre in Paris, the Morton H. Merson Symphony in Dallas, USA and the Jacob K. Conference Center. Javits in Manhattan.
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"You can not talk about architecture in the past 60 years without talking seriously about IMP," said former Dean of the College of Architecture at Yale University, Robert Stern. "Mr. B is the largest maker of modern monuments, and Mr. B's legacy is not just one building , It is done over a generation of time and its logical pursuit of uncompromising excellence. "
The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha was the last masterpiece of Mr. Bey. The museum was opened in 2008 when the 91-year-old architect, an area of approximately 45,000 square meters, was located on the edge of the port of Doha on an artificial island linked to the mainland by several bridges and a cultural edifice between modern architecture and Islamic architecture Old.
It is considered that i. Mother. The contemporary architecture, renowned for the coolness of its unobstructed designs and buildings, has been saved by building open public spaces that made people feel welcome as well as a bright and attractive museum rather than a group of small, dark rooms.
The Hong Kong Tower Bank of China, a 70-storey steel and glass skyscraper, was particularly important to Mr. B, who took over the project in honor of his father, who served as bank manager. Unfortunately, my father died a few years after the project was approved and could not From seeing the final form of construction in 1990.
Which is cooler – a cascading waterfall in the park or the iconic Bank of China Tower?
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The son of Ay. Mother. A contemporary architect who renovated the famous Louvre museum, the most controversial project, and was built from 1985 to 1989.
In the Louvre, he designed a glass pyramid with steel frames and a height of 21 meters to serve as a grand and majestic entrance to the museum along with three smaller pyramids nearby.
The pyramid contrasts with the classic French construction of the museum, dating back to the 12th century, and has sparked controversy among many Frenchmen, where the French newspaper Le Monde described the pyramids as "attached to Disneyland."
Mr. B received the Pritzker Prize in 1983, an annual award equivalent to the Nobel Prize in the world of architecture.
And i. Mother. He is the son of a prominent banker in China. He left China in 1935 and moved to the United States where he studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University despite his father's desire to become a doctor. He married American Eileen of Chinese origin in 1942 until her death. 2014 and has four sons, two of whom followed him and became architects.
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