For Shelley R. Clark, a structural engineer for the world's most complicated retractable skylight, frustration became the mother of invention. But ultimately, it took her firm Magnusson Klemencic Associates only 15 minutes to turn a several-year impasse between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and its retail construction partner, the Taubman Co., into an open and shut case.

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