Renowned Argentine-American architect Cesar Pelli dies at 92

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5. Very modern and functional, yet spacious and welcoming. Thanks for posting these, Judi.

Personally, I find Abeno Harukas much more elegant than this best-known work, the Petronas Towers.

I remember reading at the time ('96), that the Malaysian government interfered constantly in Pelli's design process, as they found his first blueprints "too western."

My favorite Pelli building, though, is Norwest Center in Minneapolis - followed by Key Tower in Cleveland. Gorgeous adaptations of the 1920s Art-Deco office high rises, I think.

Pelli - along with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Phillip Johnson; and John Portman - really helped redefine downtown skylines across the U.S. during the 1980s and '90s.

They created a clear departure from the van der Rohe-inspired international style that had dominated new high-rise office construction until 1975 or so (which I very much like as well).

I've always really enjoyed U.S. city skylines for that reason: that mostly very graceful juxtaposition between all those styles.