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These are great, thanks for writing them up.
Little side story that's kind of relevant, and may or may not interest you, but his post made me think of a very interesting story Sam Hyde told on a live stream years ago (yes, that Sam Hyde, way back before he kind of blew up into some kind of political figure, and was just some absurdist youtuber I followed).
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M2TYjRr-Gps
Kind of long (I'd still recommend watching it), but the basic gist is that he met a crazy guy who claimed his father, a Greek Immigrant, was some sort of genius architect and a big shot in the Pittsburgh mid-century redevelopment scene. Apparently the father bumped elbows with a lot of the city big wigs of the time, and was lead architect on a lot of major projects, but at some point refused to take part in a wife swapping "key" party and was subsequently professionally black-balled. Sam claims the guy had some of his dads old drawings still, including what sounds like original drawings of the Civic Arena. People online think they've traced the dad to being James Mitchell (originally Michalopoulos).
I'm glossing over lots of interesting little details though, like at one point apparently the guy claimed IM Pei being chosen to design what you mentioned, over his dad, was related to some side deal between US steel and China. Also I believe Sam briefly attended Carnegie Mellon, so that might explain why he'd even run into a guy like this.
Obscure forum post with apparently some more details
Could be legit, could be a lot of bullshit. You'd probably be a much better judge than me, but I thought it was interesting enough that I still remember it.
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