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Flatiron Building:
The Dolar, calling itself Cafeteria Estilo Americana, is a cheerful Americanesque quick-lunch place in the flatiron building at the junction of Calle de Alcala and Gran Via.Though Graham worked primarily in Chicago, where he was the architect of the Merchandise Vlart, the Marshall Field & Co. stores, and the Field Museum, he also planned numerous build-ngs elsewhere. Among these were the Equitable Building and the Flatiron Building in New York 3ity; Union Station and the General Post Office n Washington, D. C.; Pennsylvania Station in 3hiladelphia; and the Selfridge and Company tore in London, England. He died on Nov. 22, L936, in Chicago.
Other studios found their influences in Japanese gardens, the building's views of downtown Cincinnati, and traditional home comfort. Libeskind wasn't present, but his interior-design suggestions for the building also were displayed. The star of the day, designers seemed to agree, was the proposed crescent-shaped building itself. The Basement excavation now complete; it is to open in September 2007.
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