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Thom Mayne, American architect and academic, designed the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower

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Thom Mayne

American architect

Thom Mayne is an American architect. He is based in Los Angeles. In 1972, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he is a trustee and the coordinator of the Design of Cities postgraduate program. Since then he has held teaching…
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San Francisco Federal Building

Government offices in San Francisco, California

The San Francisco Federal Building, formally the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, is an 18-story, 234 ft-tall (71.3 m) building at the corner of Mission and 7th streets in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The federal building was designed by…
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Phare Tower

Office, monument and retail in La Défense

The Phare Tower, in English, "Beacon Tower", was a planned approx. 300-metre (984 ft) tall skyscraper with 71 floors designed as a green building to be built in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), France, in the La Défense district of suburban Paris. The building was being designed by…
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