Tuesday, Dec. 07, 1999

Architect Cesar Pelli

Week of Jan. 4, 1988
"Architect Cesar Pelli's firm is among two or three producing consistently fine, thoughtful skyscrapers," TIME notes, amid a construction boom of bland glass monoliths in downtowns nationwide. His striking $1.5 billion World Financial Center design in Lower Manhattan is cited as one of 1987's best .