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Pruitt–Igoe

The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe, were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The complex of 33 eleven-story high rises was designed in the modernist architectural style by Minoru Yamasaki. At the time of opening, it was one of the largest public housing developments in the country. It was constructed with feder…

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1955

St. Louis, St. Louis, United States

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Demolished housing project in St. Louis, US

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Minoru Yamasaki

1912-1986 · Detroit, Michigan, United States

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Minoru Yamasaki was an American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally considered to be the two master practitioners of "New Formalism".

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Yamasaki & Associates

practice · Detroit, Michigan, United States

Role: designer

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