By Alabama Public Radio
Alabama – Prominent architect and Alabama native Hugh Stubbins Junior passed away last Wednesday in Massachusetts at the age of 94. Stubbins was born in Birmingham and graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology and received a master's degree in architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard in 1935. He often used cocktail napkins to sketch designs for major projects ... including Manhattan's Citicorp Center, Boston's Federal Reserve Bank and Congress Hall in Berlin. His designs also include Japan's tallest building, Landmark Tower in Yokohama ... and he designed the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.