Appreciating architect Minoru Yamasaki

Glenview (IL)'s North Shore Congregation Israel



http://www.nsci.org/about_us/facilities.php3

L.A.'s planned demolition of Yamasaki's Century Plaza Hotel
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-lostla25-2009apr25,0,4004631.story

NYC's World Trade Center
http://architecture.about.com/b/2006/12/01/born-dec-1-architect-of-the-original-ny-world-trade-center.htm

Seattle's Rainier Tower
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=346581

Seattle's Pacific Science Center at Seattle Center
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/11/19/arts/23shat2_ready.html

Seattle's IBM Building
http://www.unicoprop.com/properties/ibm.html
http://www.emporis.com/ge/wm/bu/?id=ibmbuilding-seattle-wa-usa


Minoru Yamasaki

http://www.yamasakiinc.com/?navigation=our_team&name=2

http://lichen.phys.uregina.ca/arch/yamasaki.html... Read More

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=5352

for fans of Tammis Keefe, opera and theatre

Get out your (Tammis Keefe) hankies!


Emily Coad, the early-mid 1800s opera star, was textile artist Tammis Keefe's great-grandmother.

Miss Coad performed in 1843 in the first New York production of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor." Her role was as Alize (Alisa).

http://books.google.com/books?id=C6INAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA404&dq=%22Miss+Coad%22&lr=&as_brr=0

In 1844 Emily sang the role of Mark Smeaton in Donizetti's "Anna Bolena."

Tonight New York's Metropolitan Opera telecasts its performance of Lucia.

Lucia's story:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=55

Donizetti's life appeared to have had no less drama:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2589608

the Coad/Tammis story: http://www.nwfestival.com/Keefe_genealogy.pdf

slide shows: http://www.nwfestival.com/T_Keefe13.htm

This year I plan to take just the Coad theatrical family portion, and edit and post it to wikipedia. Emily was for a time a star, and the story also shows how the country grew.