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'''Eero Saarinen''' ([[Helsinki]] 1910 - 1961) was an Finnish - [[American]] [[architect]] and furniture designer. ''He died of a brain tumor in 1961 at the age of 51, and never lived to see the completion of some of his most important works: the St. Louis Gateway Arch; Dulles International Airport, near [[Washington]], D.C.; the TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport and the CBS headquarters, in [[New York City]].'' <ref>[http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20050919/reconsidering-eero Reconsidering Eero.] </ref> His most famous furniture design was the chair ''"Tulip"'', a first prize competition in 1940.
'''Eero Saarinen''' ([[Helsinki]] 1910 - 1961) was an Finnish - [[American]] [[architect]] and furniture designer. ''He died of a brain tumor in 1961 at the age of 51, and never lived to see the completion of some of his most important works: the St. Louis Gateway Arch; Dulles International Airport, near [[Washington]], D.C.; the TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport and the CBS headquarters, in [[New York City]].'' <ref>[http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20050919/reconsidering-eero Reconsidering Eero.] </ref> His most famous furniture design was the chair ''"Tulip"'', a first prize competition in 1940.
The North Christian Church in Columbus, [[Indiana]] was his last building design (completed in 1964).
== St. Louis Gateway Arch ==
== St. Louis Gateway Arch ==