{"id":93946,"date":"2019-07-20T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/cesar-pelli-designer-of-iconic-buildings-around-the-world-dies-at-92"},"modified":"2019-07-20T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T17:22:15","slug":"cesar-pelli-designer-of-iconic-buildings-around-the-world-dies-at-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/cesar-pelli-designer-of-iconic-buildings-around-the-world-dies-at-92","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e9sar Pelli, Designer of Iconic Buildings Around the World, Dies at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cesar-pelli-designer-of-iconic-buildings-around-the-world-dies-at-922.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9sar Pelli, the architect whose firm designed Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia and other of the world\u2019s most recognizable buildings, died on Friday at his home in New Haven. He was 92.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine state news agency Telam confirmed the death, as did Anibal Bellomio, a senior associate architect at Pelli\u2019s firm in Connecticut, with news organizations. Mr. Pelli had been dean of the Yale School of Architecture there, from 1977 to 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Pelli\u2019s many distinctive works include the World Financial Center in New York (now Brookfield Place), famous for its glass-roofed Winter Garden; the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laconservancy.org\/locations\/pacific-design-center\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Design Center<\/a> in Los Angeles, known for its bright blue-glass facade; and a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/pcparch.com\/project\/reagan-national-airport-north-terminal\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">terminal at Washington\u2019s Reagan National Airport<\/a>. He won hundreds of awards, including the American Institute of Architects\u2019 1995 gold medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C\u00e9sar Pelli, the architect whose firm designed Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia and other of the world\u2019s most recognizable buildings, died on Friday at his home in New Haven. He was 92. The Argentine state news agency Telam confirmed the death, as did Anibal Bellomio, a senior associate architect [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}