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Memorial Building For Tongji:
Japanese Architect Tadao Ando to Present First Design for China
Japanese architect Tadao Ando is polishing his design of a memorial building for Tongji University based in Shanghai, the largest metropolis in China.
This will be his first design proposal for a Chinese office building.
Tadao Ando, who is at the pinnacle of success in his own country, has accepted the invitation of Tongji University as an honorary professor.The Confederate Museum occupies a building also designed as a home by Mill, and erected in 1818. It is often referred to as the White House of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis having lived in it from 1861 to 1865. A third building of Robert Mills' design is the Monumental Church. Clas_sical Revival in style, and erected 1812-1814. It is a memorial to more than 70 people, including the governor of the state, who lost their lives in 1811 in a theater fire on the same site. During most of the war, General Robert E. Lee's family occupied the brick building, erected in 1845, which is now the headquarters of the Virginia Historical Society of which John Marshall was the first president.
About the spacious Civic Center Plaza are grouped a number of impressive public buildings. These include the City Hall, Civic Auditorium, Public Library, and State Building facing the plaza itself and, across Van Ness Avenue from the City Hall, the Municipal Opera House and the Veterans' Memorial Building. All are faced with California Granite and form a harmonious unit architecturally. Nearby is the 20-story. block-square Federal Office Building, which on its completion in 1963 was the largest office building west of Chicago.
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