Although these projects were satisfying, Pei wanted to establish an independent name for himself.

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 also drew inspiration from the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings of the Ancient Pueblo Peoples ; he wanted the buildings to exist in harmony with their natural surroundings.

Pei wanted his design for Dallas City Hall to " convey an image of the people ".

The staff had begun to shrink, and Pei wanted to dedicate himself to smaller projects allowing for more creativity.

The sponsors of the hall, however, sought Pei for specifically this reason ; they wanted the building to have an aura of respectability from the beginning.

Sima Lun, however, had other plans — he wanted to have Empress Jia murder the crown prince so that he could use the murder as an excuse to overthrow her, and he started a coup later that year, killing Jia Mi, Zhang, Pei, and other associates of Empress Jia.

: what Pei Wei wanted to do next was run it over the Internet.

After returning to Pei County, the townsfolk wanted Liu Bang to lead them to overthrow the Qin Dynasty.

In the final scene when Lily Ho wanted to desert Pei Ti to pair off with the male hero, she was asked for a final kiss.

It was said that, while Yuan had no resentment toward Pei personally, he wanted to be chancellor and was fearful that if Pei were victorious, Pei would be recalled and would again dominate the court, and therefore Yuan, as well as his ally Wei Hongjian, were interfering with requests that Pei was making of Emperor Muzong during the campaign.

( It was said that the capitulation was advocated by Yuan, who wanted to relieve Pei of his military command.

Although he usually designed entirely by hand, Pei used a computer to " confirm the spaces " for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.

In its citation, the jury said: " Ieoh Ming Pei has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms ... His versatility and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.

In 2011, the Museum opened renovated spaces and a 16, 000-square-foot extension inspired by the original plans drawn up by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.

The US realized that its bombs used against the stone buildings of Europe would be ineffective against Japanese cities, mostly constructed from wood and paper ; Pei was assigned to work on incendiary bombs.

In the spring of 1948 Pei was recruited by New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf to join a staff of architects for his firm of Webb and Knapp to design buildings around the country.

After visiting his ancestral home in Suzhou, Pei created a design based on the simple but nuanced techniques of traditional residential Chinese buildings.

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.

Pei proposed a central entrance, not unlike the lobby of the National Gallery East Building, which would link the three major buildings.

During the first decade of the 2000s, Pei designed a variety of buildings, including the Suzhou Museum near his childhood home.

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Pei, see themselves primarily as artists, with some secondary responsibility to make their buildings functional for clients and / or users.

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Architect I. M. Pei developed the initial urban renewal plan and was responsible for the design of multiple buildings, including those comprising L ’ Enfant Plaza and two clusters of apartment buildings located on the north side of M St. SW ( initial termed Town Center Plaza ).

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

Category: I. M. Pei buildings

In 1972, three other buildings were erected, thus creating the Commerce Court complex: glass and stainless steel glass curtain wall international Style Commerce Court West designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners ( the tallest building in the complex, at 57 storeys, and the tallest building in Canada from 1972 – 1976 ), Originally, Commerce Court West 57 was an observation floor.

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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.

Pei and his team also designed a united urban area for Washington, D. C., L ' Enfant Plaza ( named for French-American architect Pierre Charles L ' Enfant ).

* William L. Slayton House designed by I. M. Pei, completed in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D. C.

Pei, the architect who designed the master plan and overall look of L ' Enfant Plaza.

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.

* Prognostics Enhanced Reconfigurable Control of Electro-Mechanical Actuators, D. Brown, G. Georgoulas, B. Bole, H. Pei, M. Orchard, L. Tang, B. Saha, A. Saxena, K. Goebel, and G. Vachtsevanos, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.