Tossup

Suspended black staircases feature in one of these buildings designed by Zaha Hadid which was built (-5[1])on the site of a military barracks. (10[1])The Quadracci Pavilion was designed by Santiago Calatrava for one of these buildings in Milwaukee. A skylight (10[1])shaped like a metal (-5[1])flower tops (10[1])one of these buildings designed by Frank Gehry, which has flowers in a 40-foot-tall puppy shape outside it. A helical ramp surrounds an open atrium in one of these (10[1])buildings that its architect called an “inverted (10[1])ziggurat.” (10[1])François Mitterand commissioned I. M. Pei to design a glass-and-metal structure for one of these buildings in Paris. For 10 points, (-5[1])what (10[1])kinds of buildings include the Guggenheim and the Louvre? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: art museums [or art galleries; prompt on Guggenheims before mentioned with “which is what sort of building?”] (The unnamed museums are the Maxxi, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and Guggenheim Bilbao.)
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