The Death of Two Influential Skyscraper Architects, Frank Williams and Bruce Graham

News of two architect deaths have hit about the same time this week, which would be nothing exceptionally unusual, except they were both important figures in one particular type of architecture: skyscrapers. The first was the news about Frank Williams‘ passing. Williams was responsible for a large number of significant New York buildings, from Trump Palace, “the tallest building on the East Side,” to the 57th Street Four Seasons, which he designed with I.M. Pei (and which you might recall got a

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