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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 .