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Quizzical Pursuit
—The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Architecture Puzzler #258
Escalating building costs, blueprints that perplexed city officials, difficulties in finding a site, a curator who tried to sabotage the design, protest petitions by artists, 16 years from conception to completion in 1959. What building and architect endured this list of problems? One last clue: New York City.
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Question from Last Week:
Architecture Puzzler #257
Self-fibrillating synthetic fibers have become a more common component of which common building material?
Answer to Puzzler #257
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2005, Dave Guadagni.
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New York City 80 years earlier.
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