Architect I. M. Pei was awarded the project and proposed a glass pyramid to stand over a new entrance in the main court, the Cour Napoléon.

Pei had initially proposed a large pedestrian bridge lined by retail businesses and restaurants extending from the L ' Enfant Promenade across Banneker Overlook and Interstate-395 down to Maine Avenue SW and the waterfront.

Pei hoped the lobby would be exciting to the public in the same way as the central room of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

In 232, Sun Quan had another misadventure involving his navy — as he sent his generals Zhou He ( 周賀 ) and Pei Qian ( 裴濳 ) to the nominal Wei vassal Gongsun Yuan, in control of Liaodong Commandery ( present-day central Liaoning ), to purchase horses, against the advice of Yu Fan-and indeed, he exiled Yu Fan to the desolate Cangwu Commandery ( roughly modern Wuzhou, Guangxi ) as punishment.

Further annotations of the text by Pei Songzhi ( 430 AD ) described the design in detail as a large single central wheel and axle around which a wooden frame was constructed in representation of an ox.

He was given the posthumous title ( probably under the urging of Pei Xiu who became chief minister of the central government in 853 ) of “ Chan Master Without Limits ” ( Tuan Chi Ch ’ an Shih ).

In fear, the general Pei Zhaoye ( 裴昭業 ), who controlled Shouyang as the governor of Yu Province ( 豫州, modern central Anhui ), surrendered Shouyang to Northern Wei in 500, despite Xiao Yan's counsel against it.

Using a glass wall for the entrance, similar in appearance to his Louvre pyramid, Pei coated the exterior of the main building in white metal, and placed a large cylinder on a narrow perch to serve as a performance space.

Pei also oversaw specific decorative details, including a bench in the entrance lobby, carved from a 350-year-old keyaki tree.

Pei has won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2003.

Less than a month later, Pei suspended his work at Harvard to join the National Defense Research Committee, which coordinated scientific research into US weapons technology during World War II.

Pei said he wanted the Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research to look " as if it were carved out of the mountain ".

Pei was able to return to hands-on design when he was approached in 1961 by Walter Orr Roberts to design the new Mesa Laboratory for the National Center for Atmospheric Research outside Boulder, Colorado.

After visiting museums in Europe and the United States, including the US National Gallery, he asked Pei to join the team.

Returning to the challenge of the East Building of the US National Gallery, Pei worked to combine a modernist approach with a classical main structure.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Pei ’ s National Gallery of Art, and later the same year repeated in the courtyard of the Salk Institute in La Jolla.

He also noted that Pei himself fiercely fought construction of the Forrestal Building, knowing that it would severely compromise the Promenade's view of the National Mall.

The area includes educational institutions such as Anglo-Chinese School ( Barker Road ), Singapore Chinese Girls ' School, Methodist Girls ' School, Hwa Chong Institution, National Junior College, Raffles Girls ' Primary School, Nanyang Primary School, Nanyang Girls ' High School, Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, Saint Joseph's Institution and Ngee Ann Polytechnic amongst others.

Pei, in his design of JFK Airport's Terminal 6 ( National Airlines Sundrome ) used all-glass mullions, unprecedented at the time.

* I M Pei: Dallas City Hall, National Gallery East Wing, Washington, D. C .; Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland

The university operates 16 galleries, notably Gutstein Gallery, Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Pinnacle Gallery and La Galerie Bleue in Savannah ; ACA Gallery of SCAD ; and Moot Gallery in Hong Kong.

The Gallery's campus includes the original neoclassical West Building designed by John Russell Pope, which is linked underground to the modern East Building designed by I. M. Pei, and the Sculpture Garden.

In contrast, the design of the East Building by architect I. M. Pei is rigorously geometrical, dividing the trapezoidal shape of the site into two triangles: one isosceles and the other a smaller right triangle.

When Yu Di went to Chang ' an to pay homage to Emperor Xianzong later in 808, he was made Sikong ( 司空 ) and chancellor, and kept at Chang ' an ; he was replaced as the military governor of Shannan East Circuit by Pei Jun ( 裴均 ).

During his two years in the Far East, Commodore Tattnall violated American neutrality while commanding the chartered steamer Toey-Wan, when he came to the assistance of a British and French squadron under fire from the Taku Forts at the mouth of the Pei Ho or Hai River.

Mellon commissioned I. M. Pei to build the East Wing and, with his sister Ailsa, provided funds for its construction in the late 1970s.

Among the early projects on which Pei took the lead were the L ' Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC and the Green Building at MIT.

At a point in the planning phase when a financing gap existed, a proposal was made for the Rock Hall to be located in the then-vacant May Company Building, but it was finally decided that architect I. M. Pei would be commissioned to design a new building.

The MIT Media Lab was founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner and opened its doors in the Wiesner Building ( designed by I. M. Pei ) ( also known as the E15 building ) at MIT in 1985.

Vaulted Space in the Ronald Reagan Building, Washington D. C., designed by I. M. Pei.

Pei, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, D. C.

This is seen in some of the older commercial buildings, such as the OCBC Centre by I. M. Pei, as well as many buildings built to house governmental offices and government-linked companies, including the Singapore Land Tower, Temasek Tower, DBS Building, and the CPF Building.

Pei was fascinated by the representations of college life in the films of Bing Crosby, which differed tremendously from the academic atmosphere in China.

Le Corbusier visited MIT in, an occasion which powerfully affected Pei: " The two days with Le Corbusier, or ' Corbu ' as we used to call him, were probably the most important days in my architectural education.

Soon Pei was so inundated with projects that he asked Zeckendorf for assistants, which he chose from his associates at the GSD, including Henry N. Cobb and Ulrich Franzen.

The pedestrian walkway at the ground floor, however, was prone to sudden gusts of wind, which embarrassed Pei.

I. M. Pei and Associates officially broke from Webb and Knapp in 1960, which benefited Pei creatively but pained him personally.

One of these was a delegation of the American Institute of Architects in 1974, which Pei joined.

A member of Pei's staff returned for a visit several years later and confirmed that it had become dilapidated, which he and Pei attributed to the country's general unfamiliarity with deluxe buildings.

The opening of the Louvre Pyramid coincided with four other projects on which Pei had been working, prompting architecture critic Paul Goldberger to declare 1989 " the year of Pei " in The New York Times.

It was also the year in which Pei's firm changed its name to Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, to reflect the increasing stature and prominence of his associates.

Perhaps even more personally important for Pei was a new offer from the Chinese government, which had come in 1982.

" The prize was accompanied by a US $ 100, 000 award, which Pei used to create a scholarship for Chinese students to study architecture in the US, on the condition that they return to China to work.

Jobs found office space in Palo Alto on 3475 Deer Creek Road, occupying a glass and concrete building which featured a staircase designed by architect I. M. Pei.

The Hai River (), previously called Bai He ( Chinese: 白河 ; pinyin: Bái Hé ; literally " White River "; Pei Ho in Western sources ), is a river in the People's Republic of China which flows through Beijing and Tianjin before emptying into the Yellow Sea at the Bohai Gulf.

Then they carried out a landing near at Beitang ( also spelled " Pei Tang "), some from the Taku Forts on 3 August, which they captured after three weeks on 21 August.

Pei Songzhi believed that the first objective of Sun Ce's planned northward excursion was to attack Chen Deng, which would provide a platform for capturing Xuchang.

However, Liu Bang's family, including Lü Zhi and her children, remained in Pei County, which was a territory of Xiang Yu's kingdom of Western Chu.

In Bo Yang's Modern Chinese Edition of Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian, for example, Bo cited seven different and discordant views of Jiang's career — ranging from ringing endorsements of his recklessness and loyalty for the sake of Shu ( Pei Songzhi ( 裴松之 ), commentator to the Records of Three Kingdoms ) to criticism of his constant draining campaigns ( Chen Shou, author of Records of Three Kingdoms ) to outright condemnation ( Sun Sheng ( 孫盛 ), author of the Spring and Autumn Annals of Jin ), each of which could be considered a potentially valid view of his complicated character.

Pei was an ardent student of Chan and received teachings from Huángbò, eventually building a monastery for Huángbò around 846, which the master named Huang-po after the mountain where he had been a novice monk.