César Pelli (geboren 1926)
Cesar Pelli, geboren 1926 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentinien, ist ein argentinischer Architekt, der für den Bau einiger der höchsten Wolkenkratzer der Welt und anderer bedeutender städtischer Wahrzeichen wie der Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia oder des Cira Centre in Philadelphia, PA, USA, bekannt ist. Er entwarf auch den Komplex des World Financial Center in Manhattan, der das inzwischen eingestürzte World Trade Center umgibt. Cesar Pelli studierte Architektur an der Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Er schloss sein Studium an der School of Architecture der University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign ab. Cesar Pelli begann seine Karriere im Büro des Architekten Eero Saarinen in New Haven. Er wanderte 1952 in die Vereinigten Staaten aus. Er eröffnete sein eigenes Büro im Jahr 1977.
Wichtige Bauwerke:
- 181 West Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois
- 25 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, Docklands, London
- 40 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, Docklands, London
- 777 Tower, Los Angeles, California
- Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami, Florida
- Aronoff Center for Performing Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Athletic and Fitness Center at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
- Bank of America Corporate Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Benjamin & Mariam Schuster Performing Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio
- Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Boston Bank Building, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Bucksbaum Center for the Arts at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
- Carnegie Hall Tower, New York City, New York
- Center for Drama and Film & the Martel Theater at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
- Cheung Kong Center, Hong Kong, PRC
- Cira Centre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Citigroup Centre, 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London
- Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
- Commons Centre and Mall, Columbus, Indiana
- Edificio República, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Expansion of Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
- Federal Building Eastern District Courthouse, Brooklyn, New York
- Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
- Gaviidae Common, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Gerald Ratner Athletics Center at University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Goldman Sachs Tower, Jersey City, New Jersey
- Herring Hall at Rice University, Houston, Texas
- Investment Building, Washington, DC.
- Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
- KABC-TV, Los Angeles, California
- Key Tower, Cleveland, Ohio
- Kukui Gardens housing, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Kurayoshi Park Square, Kurayoshi, Japan
- Malone Engineering Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
- Minneapolis Public Library's Central branch, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan
- One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, England
- Overture Center, Madison, Wisconsin
- Owens Corning World Headquarters, Toledo, Ohio
- Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, California
- Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Plaza Tower, Costa Mesa, California
- Residential Tower atop the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, New York
- San Bernardino City Hall, San Bernardino, California
- Schuster Center, Dayton, Ohio
- Science and Engineering Research and Classroom Complex at University of Houston, Houston, Texas
- Segerstrom Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California
- Thomas E. Golden Jr. Center, St. Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong
- US Embassy in Tokyo, Japan
- Wachovia Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Weber Music Hall at University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
- Wells Fargo Center (formerly Norwest Center), Minneapolis, Minnesota
- World Financial Center, New York City, New York
- Worldway Postal Center, Los Angeles International Airport, California
