I always have some trouble with distinguishing New York skyscrapers and I find it surprising the Chrysler Building used bricks. Just shows my ignorance, but maybe one day I’ll want to try and understand why.
Questions
An art museum in which American city contains Santiago Calatrava’s Quadracci Pavilion, which contains a massive brise soleil that opens up during the day?
MILWAUKEE
American architect Albert Mayer is best known for his plan of which city, that was built upon and carried out by a more famous name?
CHANDIGARH
Being born in the port town of Dabou, with which country’s architecture is Pierre Fakhoury most associated?
COTE D’IVOIRE
Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye is responsible for which building in Oslo that finds itself situated on City Hall Square?
NOBEL PEACE CENTER
Part of the Smithsonian Institution and opened in 2016, what is probably the most visited work by David Adjaye?
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
David Adjaye was responsible for which purpose-built international visual arts centre in the London district of Shoreditch?
RIVINGTON PLACE
David Adjaye’s work includes which Moscow School of Management, part of an area that has been dubbed as a ‘Russian Silicon Valley’?
SKOLKOVO
Referring to what the walls supposedly resemble, what nickname does the Norman Foster designed Lippo Centre in Hong Kong have?
THE KOALA TREE
The Lippo Centre was seen as the headquarters of the Hanko Corporation in which 2017 live-action film that was directed by Rupert Sanders, who was also responsible for “Snow White and the Huntsman”?
GHOST IN THE SHELL
The Lippo Centre was seen in the Dockside track in the 2004 arcade-style racing game “Burnout 3”, which carries what subtitle and is considered one of the greatest video games of all time, especially in that genre?
TAKEDOWN
The Lippo Centre was seen in which 1991 Jean Claude Van Damme film which saw him re-unite with Bolo Yeung after their collaboration in “Bloodsport”?
DOUBLE IMPACT
In which Spanish city did Peter Eisenman lead a team to create its ‘City of Culture’, with the buildings supposed to look like rolling hills?
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
House VI or the Frank residence is a Peter Eisenman deconstructivist work in the tiny town of Cornwall in which American state? It has become famous for its revolutionary concept of a house, as well as the difficulty of using it as such.
CONNECTICUT
The Chrysler Building, Empire State Building and Flatiron Building are all considered to be examples of which architectural style, whose name comes from a 1925 exhibition held in Paris?
ART DECO
The Chrysler Building can be found at the intersection of 42nd Street and which avenue, with perhaps the most famous scene taking place here being Marilyn Monroe’s billowing skirt in “The Seven Year Itch”?
LEXINGTON AVENUE
Also giving his name to a luxury apartment block on the Brighton seafront, which architect’s most famous work by far is the Chrysler Building?
WILLIAM VAN ALEN
Briefly the talllest building in the world in 1930 before the Chrysler Building surpassed it in height, how is 40 Wall Street popularly known after the individual whose company leased it in 1995?
THE TRUMP BUILDING
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