Round 11: Tossup 15

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

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