LEAST SUCCESSFUL AWARD CEREMONY
The American Institute of Architects held their 1979 annual conference in Kansas City so as to be near the Kemper Arena, to which they had awarded their prize as ‘one of the finest buildings in the nation.’ On the first day of the conference, hordes of architects toured this inspired structure with its wide spanning roof trusses, which the Architectural Record described as having ‘an almost awesome muscularity.’ On the second day it fell down, filling the entire zone with a dramatic heap of tangled metalwork! Taken from Cannibals in the Cafeteria, by Stephen Pile
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