The McGregor Memorial Conference Center, a Modernist masterpiece located at Detroit's Wayne State University, was among five sites added to the nation's list of historic landmarks today by the National Park Service. Designed by renowned Japanese-American Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the World Trade Center towers in New York City, the two-story steel-frame and concrete folded slab McGregor Memorial Conference Center was built in an evolving International style, which eventually gave Yamasaki a worldwide reputation. Completed in 1958, the conference center - financed by the McGregor Foundation and one of four structures designed by Yamasaki at Wayne State - includes meeting rooms and reception space overlooking a lobby featuring free-standing columns and partitions highlighted with teakwood. With a refurbished reflecting pond and sculpture garden nearby, the conference center remains the university's primary conference facility. In 2013, the Free Press called it "jewel-like" and "a touchstone of greatness."

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