ST. LOUIS (AP) – Gyo Obata, an architect whose designs included sports and entertainment arenas, airports and a presidential library, has died.He was 99.
Obata died Tuesday in St. Louis, https://academy.bimgrafx.com/ his family said. A cause of death was not announced.
Obata was born in 1923 in San Francisco. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1945 and earned a master’s degree at Cranbrook Academy of Arts in suburban Detroit.
In 1955, Obata, George Hellmuth and George Kassabaum opened Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum.St. Louis-based HOK is now among the world’s largest architecture and engineering firms.
HOK’s notable designs include the Smithsonian´s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, Camden Yards baseball stadium in Baltimore, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.
