(*****) "The Los Angeles Times -- Outlook for '99"

• Millennium Dome, Greenwich -- Richard Rogers
• Reichstag, Berlin -- Norman Foster
• Diamond Ranch High School, overlooking Pomona -- Morphosis / Thom Mayne
• Long Beach International Elementary School -- Morphosis / Thom Mayne
• Jewish Museum, Berlin -- Daniel Libeskind
    "supposed to be completed in late 1998,
  but its opening was delayed until sometime this year"

(*****) "The Washington Post -- Year In Review" (-- Roger's List)

• MCI Center
• The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
• New master plans for the nation's capital -- National Park Service for the White House grounds; National Capital Planning Commission for the federally controlled monumental core
• Washington Convention Center, north of Mount Vernon Square
• The revitalization of downtown Silver Spring
• National Harbor in Prince George's County, on the Potomac River shore just south of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge
• The replacement for the deteriorating Wilson Bridge
• Management of urban development, protecting the environment and curtailing undesirable suburban sprawl.
• "Big box power centers" such as Potomac Yard, south of National Airport
• Department of Housing and Urban Development hit the comeback trail.

(*****) " The New York Times -- Year In Review" (-- Herbert's List)

1. Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland 1998 -- Steven Holl
   
2. House In Bordeaux, France -- Rem Koolhaas
3. The New York Competition: Westside of midtown Manhattan -- Phyllis Lambert, founding director of the Canadian Center for Architecture
4. Paper Plant -- Maya Lin
5. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati -- Zaha Hadid
6. Grand Central Terminal Renovation, New York -- Beyer Blinder Belle (Warren & Wetmore)
7. "Sculpture for a Large Wall" -- Ellsworth Kelly : "The best architecture show of the year"
8. St Moritz Hotel on Central Park South -- ; Jennifer Raab : "The low point of this and many other years
9. Coliseum - Time Warner Headquarters, Columbus Circle, New York -- SOM/ David Childs
10. City Hall Park
    -- "Giuliani Stadium has a nice ring, but the likelihood is that this mayor will be remembered for the barricades, bollards and fences"  

    
    (*****) "The Los Angeles Times -- Year In Review" ("Urban Visionaries - New Generation" -- Nicolai's List)
    

    • McCormick Tribune Student Center, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago -- Rem Koolhaas
    • Cincinnati Center for the Arts -- Zaha Hadid
    • Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki -- Steven Holl
    • Three Los Angeles-area schools -- Thom Mayne
    • Two major office structures -- Eric Owen Moss, in partnership with developer Frederick Smith
    • Otis College of Art and Design -- Hodgetts Fung
    • Egyptian Theater Renovation, Hollywood -- Hodgetts Fung
    • Feldman/Horn Center for the Arts at Los Angeles' Harvard-Westlake High School -- Michael Maltzan
    • Wes Jones
    • Guthrie Buresh

    
    (*****) m o r e

    • "Montreal's 17th Annual Orange and Lemon Prizes"
    • "Significant Properties '98"
    • "Critic's Choice -- The New Season / Architecture"
    • "(Millenium) Five Most Significant Buildings"
    • -- etc etc

    
    

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    "do not do  competitions"

    
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    • ANY 's inner-circle:
      Cynthia Davidson, Peter Eisenman, Arata Isozaki, Ignasi de So-Morales, Rem Koolhaas, John Rajchman; Jeffrey Kipnis, Sanford Kwinter, Fredric Jameson, Saskia Sassen, Beatriz Colomina; Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind, ; Greg Lynn, Alejandro Zaera-Polo; and of course Philip Johnson, Phyllis Lambert.

    • Terence's List:
      MoMA (Glenn Lowry/Terence Riley)'s invitees for the Expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City 1997.
      Wiel Arets, Rem Koolhaas (the Netherlands); Toyo Ito, Yoshio Taniguchi (Japan); Dominique Perrault (France); Herzog/de Meuron (Switzerland); Steven Holl, Bernard Tschumi, Rafael Vinoly, Williams/Tsien (New York)

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    • The Big Lebowski (Coen brothers) : House, Hollywood -- John Lautner
    • LA Confidential : House, Hollywood Hills 1920s -- Richard Neutra
    • Miami Vice : Atlantis, Miami FL 1978 -- Arquitectonica
    • Brazil : Le Theatre and Le Palais d'Abraxas, Marnee la Vallee, France -- Ricardo Bofill/Taller de Arquitectura

    
    
    

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    • City of Science Telecommunication Tower, Valencia, Spain 1989 - Santiago Calatrava
      Aspired to be, with its 80-story plus, one of the highest structures in Europe. The project comprised an hemispherical cinema/planetarium, a 100-metre nave for a science museum and a three-legged futuristic telecommunications needle/tower. Only the foundations have been completed. (totem4.97)

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    • "the most talked about little project on earth"  (156 sq.m.)
      Caricature and cartoon museum, Basle 1976 - Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron
      -- "a sensational understatement" (wa); "... remain committed exclusively to their fundamental architectural enquiries, regardless of the scale and the importance of their brief..." (domus)

    
    
    

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