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David Wylie McDonald is an American architect who was born on October 9, 1927 in New York City. He is best known for his work on the World Trade Center in New York City, the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, and the United Nations Headquarters in New York. McDonald graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950 with a degree in architecture. He then went on to work for the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he worked on the design of the World Trade Center. He also worked on the design of the John F. Kennedy International Airport and the United Nations Headquarters. McDonald has been honored with numerous awards, including the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1988, the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter Medal of Honor in 1989, and the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter Medal of Honor in 1990. McDonald is currently retired and living in New York City. His net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.

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2007

After his retirement in 1983, McDonald returned to Dundee with his wife. In Dundee, he was on the board of the Edinburgh-based Margaret Blackwood Housing Association which provides a home for disabled people and their families. He later moved to Perth, Australia with his wife to be close to their two daughters. He died there on 8 March 2007, aged 79.

1974

McDonald was also a coach of the Hong Kong's swimming team at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was also an active member and the chieftain of the St. Andrew's Society of Hong Kong.

1955

He moved to Hong Kong in 1955 and joined the colonial government. He quickly learned Cantonese and was able to communicate with the locals. He became the Director of Public Works in 1974 and the first Secretary for Lands and Works in 1981 when the post was created by Governor Murray MacLehose. He was responsible for the construction of the new towns in the New Territories, the High Island Reservoir scheme to provide drinking water and pushed through the coastal highway link between Sha Tin and Tai Po, and the Aberdeen Tunnel linking Wong Chuk Hang and Happy Valley. He was also in charge of the HK$3.5 billion scheme to modernise and electrify the Kowloon-Canton Railway and construction of the 1,400-bed Prince of Wales Hospital. McDonald also streamlined the over-bureaucratic Public Works Department and set up a unit to eliminate bribery and corruption.

1927

David Wylie McDonald, CMG (9 October 1927 – 8 March 2007) was a Scottish architect and a colonial civil servant. He was the Director of Public Works in Hong Kong and the first Secretary for Lands and Works.

Born on 9 October 1927 in Armadale, West Lothian, he was educated at Harris Academy, Dundee and volunteered for the Black Watch at the age of 17 in late 1944. One of his first postings was to guard the Princess Elizabeth at Balmoral where he served as a dancing partner and also part of the King's Guard in Inverness and Edinburgh. He took his architecture degree at Dundee College of Art and obtained a trainee job with a local architectural firm and married Eliza (Betty) Roberts Steele on 3 July 1951.

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