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Richard King Mellon Hall

Richard King Mellon Hall of Science, also known as Mellon Hall, is an academic facility on the Duquesne University campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the four-story building has two large lecture halls on the ground floor and three floors of lab facilities above. It sits at the edge of a bluff overlooking the Monongahela River. Mellon Hall currently ser…

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1968

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Education building

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