Victor Bisharat, 75, Stamford Architect

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Victor Hanna Bisharat, an architect who designed buildings in downtown Stamford, Conn., died on Jan. 10 at his home in Sacramento, Calif. He was 75.

Mr. Bisharat's work in Stamford included the Landmark Square Tower, the Marriott Hotel and the St. Johns Towers. He also designed the headquarters building for the G.T.E. Corporation and the headquarters buildings in the city's High Ridge Park complex.

He was born in 1920 in Es Salt, Palestine, and was a graduate of American University in Beirut. After moving to the United States, he also studied at the University of California. He began his career on the team laying out Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., and opened his own firm in 1960. He designed the Jordanian Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.

He designed the headquarters for the Flintkote Company in Harrison, N.Y., the headquarters for the State National Bank in Bridgeport, Conn., and buildings for CBS Laboratories and General Electric in Stamford. He also designed the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Amman, Jordan.

He is survived by his wife, Clarita, of Hamburg, Germany; two daughters, Arienne LePretre of Dallas and Yasmine Cameron-Hayes of Hamburg; a son, Tobias, of Amawalk, N.Y.; four brothers, Maurice, of Sacramento, George and Emile, of Los Angeles, and Fred, of Palo Alto, Calif., and six grandchildren.