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The firm has designed an eclectic variety of buildings throughout its history including high rise office buildings, buildings on college campuses, municipal buildings, places of worship as well as smaller businesses and private homes. Some of the firm's known houses of worship include the synagogues
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In the 2010s, a former employee of Yamasaki, Robert Szantner bought the intellectual property of the company and opened a successor company called Yamasaki Inc. that operates in the Metro Detroit area. In 2017 Yamasaki Inc. moved to the
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Architecture, design, interior architecture, planning, programming, site analysis, space planning, master planning, project management, cost management
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public housing complexes. In 1955, Yamasaki formed his own firm; Yamasaki & Associates.
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World Trade Center Twin Towers with Brooklyn Bridge in foreground in 1976
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YAMASAKI Architects - Planners - Engineers - Interior Designers
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building annex
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World Trade Center Tower 1, Tower 2, Buildings 4, 5 and 6
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St. Louis Lambert International Airport main terminal
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Index

Private
Architecture
Minoru Yamasaki
Troy, Michigan
Dubai
Founder
CEO
CFO
yamasaki-inc.com
architectural firm
Minoru Yamasaki
World Trade Center
Minoru Yamasaki
Detroit
New York City
Smith, Hinchman & Grylls
George F. Hellmuth
St. Louis Lambert International Airport
Pruitt-Igoe
Temple Beth El
Bloomfield Hills
North Shore Congregation Israel

World Trade Center
September 11 attacks
Great Recession
Fisher Building
"USModernist"

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