1.   Callers to local radio stations expressed dismay that a white man, Appelbaum, played such a large role in designing the museum.

2.   Frank O. Gehry, when designing the museum, used the same computer tools that were originally developed to design Mirage fighter jets.

3.   He is also competing to design three museums in the United States.

4.   Kevin Roche, the architect, has designed the museum as a hexagon sheathed in granite with a six-tier roof, vaguely resembling a ziggurat.

5.   Mario Botta, a Swiss architect who also designed the museum, designed the cafe as an oasis from sensory overload.

6.   Mies originally designed the museum building for Havana.

7.   The chance to design a museum is an honor for any architect.

8.   The new museum has been designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates.

9.   Rasshied Din is designing the museum at Althorp House.

10.   As luck would have it, the museum was designed by a local architect, Oleg Demerkhanov, who avoided the numbing conformity of most modern Soviet architecture.