Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Eero Saarinen, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, Washington Dulles International Airport, Gateway Arch, University of Chicago Law School, TWA Flight Center, Ellinikon International Airport, Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, Morse College, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Ezra Stiles College, Kleinhans Music Hall, Christ Church Lutheran, Tanglewood Music Center, Concordia Theological Seminary, Kresge Auditorium, CBS Building, Ingalls Rink, Swedish Theatre, IBM Rochester, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, General Motors Technical Center, MIT Chapel, North Christian Church, Crow Island School, Miller House, Concordia Senior College, Embassy of the United States in Oslo, John Deere World Headquarters, Hill College House, Milwaukee County War Memorial. Excerpt: The Gateway Arch, or Gateway to the West, is an arch that is the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri. It was built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States. At 630 feet (192 m), it is the tallest man-made monument in the United States, Missouri's tallest accessible building, and the largest architectural structure designed as a weighted or flattened catenary arch. Located on the west bank of the Mississippi River where the city of St. Louis was founded, the arch was designed by Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen and structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947. Construction began on February 12, 1963, and ended on October 28, 1965, costing US$13 million at the time ($90,491,005 today). The monument opened to the public on June 10, 1967. In late 1933, civic leader Luther Ely Smith, returning to St. Louis from the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes, Indiana, beheld the crumbling St. Louis riverfront area and envisioned that building a memorial there would both revive the riverfront an...