I.M. Pei, renowned architect, dies at 102

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Renowned architect I.M. Pei, whose designs included the John F. Kennedy Library in Massachusetts and the glass and steel pyramid at the Louvre in Paris, has died. He was 102.

His projects dotted the world. In Dallas alone, he designed Dallas City Hall, One Dallas Center, Energy Plaza, Fountain Place and the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, according to an item on Pei in the Dallas Morning News on his 100th birthday.

NBC News confirmed the news of his passing with the New York City architecture firm he co-founded, Pei Cobb Freed and Partners.

 

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Crazy world we live in!! Right?

Wow, RIP

But hey.... It’s another guy a Rolling Stone out lived....

He didnt want to ser the Louvre in fire

I used to stop my car when I lived in DC to touch his 17 degree corner on the National Portrait Gallery ... driving home. EPIC!

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