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Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect and engineer, co-designed the Pirelli Tower and Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (died 1979)
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Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian architect and engineer
Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer and architect. He studied at the University of Bologna graduating in 1913. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946 to 1961 and was known worldwide as a structural engineer and architect and for his…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Pirelli Tower
Commercial offices in Milan, Italy
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Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco)
Principal church of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, California
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, also known locally as Saint Mary's Cathedral, is the principal church of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in San Francisco, California. It is the mother church of the Catholic faithful in the California counties of Marin, San…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)