Word: kassabaum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shopping mall and a new six- story hotel tucked inside. It is the architectural equivalent of the boat in the bottle, but the trick satisfies. The owners might have built a high- rise; fortunately, they deferred to the steel ceiling and let the architects, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, spread the new buildings out. Planes and walls jag fetchingly, as in real cities. Rounding a corner or descending a stair, / there are architectural surprises. Store names may be as treacly as the stuff they sell (Deck the Walls, Let's Make a Daiquiri and I Can't Believe It's Yogurt...
...Levi's Plaza, Levi Strauss & Co., corporate headquarters, San Francisco, Calif. Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., architects. Located on the fringe of the city, this office complex frames a pleasant garden and proves that corporate prestige does not depend on scraping...
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