on screens
new projects - on the drawing boards

b l i p s

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• South Station, Boston 1998 -- Cesar Pelli/ Anthony J Markese
    a 500-room hotel, a 743-foot office building, second-tallest in the city
  -- (Federal Reserve and One Financial Center in Dewey Square, 600 feet)
  -- "An additional150-foot glass tower atop the building would bring the height to almost 900 feet." (bg_98.08.09)

• Second Stage troupe Theater, Times Square, New York -- Rem Koolhaas/ Richard Gluckman
    299-seat house; ~to open Feb99
• Experience Music Project, Seattle -- Frank O Gehry
    $100 mil (wsj_98.08.19)
    (client: Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder)
  "a museum dedicated to the life and work of Jimi Hendrix"

• tip anyone ( ? )____

• more blips -- frozen blips

n e w   A r r i v a l
new commissions  -- for mass media consumption

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• Time Warner Headquarters, Columbus Circle, New York -- SOM/ David Childs
    2.1 mil sf; a pair of 750-ft towers;
  -- broadcast facilities for Cable News Network; 425-room Mandarin Oriental Hotel; 325 condominiums; 1000-seat jazz concert hall
    owner: Mortimer Zuckerman
    {also ran: ...}

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• Telfair Museum of Art, Telfair Square (Barnard Street, York Street and Oglethorpe Avenue), Savannah -- Moshe Safdie
    45,000 sf; ground breaking 1999; completion 2000

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• Miami Heat's Basketball Arena, Miami -- Arquitectonica
    $150 mil
  

  Also on board/under construction:
  Disney All-Star Resorts, Orlando FL, $600 mil; US Embassy, Lima, Peru; Opera House, Dijon, France, $51 mil; Orlando City Center, $200 mil; Miami Airport International Terminal, $300 mil; Miami Federal Courthouse, $100 mil; Miami City Ballet Headquarters

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• 363 George Street Tower, Sydney -- Denton Corker Marshall/ Richard Johnson, Jeff Walker
  33-story-high tower

• more -- new Arrivals

(*****) contested projects in general press

• Jacksons Landing Development, Pyrmont, Sydney -- Moore Ruble Yudell et. al.
    $800 mil; 12-hectare
    the old CSR site

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• San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge --
    $1.346 billion

• more -- contested projects

i n   c o n t e s t

• David L. Lawrence Convention Center Expansion, Pittsburgh
    $267 mil

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• National Constitution Center, Philadelphia
    $130 million; ~to open in 2002
  -- ground will be broken on 17 Sep, 2000, exactly 213 years from the date that the Constitutional Convention gave final approval to the US Constitution.
  {also ran: IM Pei/ Pei Cobb Freed, Centerbrook/ Dan Peter Kopple & Associates, Polshek & Partners/ The Vitetta Group, Antoine Predock/ Agoos-Lovera Architects, Michael Graves/ URS Greiner, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates}

• more   in con-test
• in con-test : see also recent exhibitions
• recent winners  ------   paid-to-win

d e p a r t u r e   L o u n g e
p r e m a t u r e   l a n d i n g

• The Jewish Museum San Fransisco, Yerba Buena CA 1996 -- Peter Eisenman
• Museum of Civilization, Canberra, Australia -- Gregory Burgess
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• Cardiff Bay Opera House, UK 1994 -- Zaha Hadid
• Tour Sans Fins, Paris 1989 - Jean Nouvel

l o s t   &   f o u n d

• more

d e - i c e d ------ F I R S T   P R I Z E
w i n n e r s   under construction
/ recently completed

• Japanese Cultural Center, Paris 1990 (competition); 1997 completed - Armstrong Associates
• Alexandria Library, Egypt 1989 (competition); construction 1996 - Snohetta

b a g g a g e   c l a i m -- have won & still waiting ...

• Musicon Bremen 1995 - Daniel Libeskind
• Stadion Chemnitz 2002 - Peter Kulka/ Ulrich Knigs

n o w   s h o w i n g

• X - Cité ;

  v a c a n t   s p a c e -
        mini E-board for your latest & greatest - display your projects here:

  
  

• NuGen ecosys
  
• softcell-arc inc.

• m o r e

  
  

• British Library, St Pancras, London -- Colin St John Wilson
  $870-million; originally £116 million
  -- "the £511-million building which took 36 years to design and build, and was many millions of pounds over budget." (itn_98.06.25)
  -- "design work started 22 years ago ... dogged by delays, rising costs and technical problems and will not be fully operational until 1999." (nt/r_98.06.25)

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• Princeton University Stadium -- Rafael Vinoly
  30,000-seat football-soccer-lacrosse stadium; part of $45 mil complex that includes track-and-field area
    ~to open Sep98 {also ran: IM Pei, HOK Sport Facilities}

  
  
  

• travel guide -- more itenaries
• for more t r i p s, visit also form follows

t a k i n g - o f f   p r o j e c t s   n o t e d
-- currently under construction/recently completed

(*****) in-prints a n d  being built
(propaganda machine$ at work ...)

• 50 S. 6th Street, Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis -- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill/ Peter Van Vechten
    $100 mil; 30,000 square feet of shops
    to start in summer 1999; to open in summer 2001
  developer: Hines Interests Limited Partnership (Grace Van Moer)
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• Cathedral of Hope, Dallas -- Philip Johnson
    $20 million; 2,500-seat sanctuary
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• Philadelphia Performing Arts Center, Philadelphia -- Rafael Vinoly
  $245 million; ~to be completed 2001.
  
• SBC Warburg Corporate Complex, Stamford CT 1996 -- Skidmore Owings Merrill
    $145 mil

  
  

• m o r e   t a k e - o f f s

i n a u g r a l   s p i n s

after the fact / better late than ... / better built than ... / better be dog than ...
opening ceremonies / company press releases

gutless wonder / ... never / ... cancelled / ... be scrutinized
/ -- what ? ... criticism ... ?

• more   p l u m   j o b s

D u s t   J a c k e t
G R E A T   E x p e c t a t i o n   ( G a m e )

• Commerzbank Headquarters, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1997 -- Sir Norman Foster and Partners

g o n e ________________
s t e a l t h ____________
c o n s p i c u o u s l y   m i s s i n g

• progress report / status info ( ? )___

i.E. famous w o r k i n g d r a w i n g s

• Emory Center for the Arts, Atlanta GA - Peter Eisenman ( ? )____
• Ludwig Erhard Building, Berlin 1991-1995 -- Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners
• Kursaal Cultural Center and Auditorium, San Sebastian, Spain -- Rafael Moneo

• progress report / status info ( ? )___

• more famous working drawings

  
  

• undetected others:   l o w and or s l o w ?
  high-profile low-visibility works under construction - Any tips anyone ?
• Le Fresnoy National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France 1992 - Bernard Tschumi

(*****)   B - E - l - o - v - e - d : ( & Over - Exposed )
m o b . j o b s   under construction / recently completed
----   a r c h ' l - p a p s   a t   w o r k

m o r e   C E L E B - A R C   &   other   d . A r c h
home of Elitism in the Arts, the dumbing down of the masses . . . etc.

• "Villa Amore," Sagaponack NY, 1966 - Agrest and Gandelsonas

• celebrity digest
• other cybermogul trophy homes

r e a l   e_s t a t e
i n   a l t e r e d   s t a t e s

(*****) back in the news

• The Peco Energy Co Power Plant, Delaware River, Chester 1916 -- John Windrim

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• Toronto City Hall, Toronto 1965 --
  renovation 1998 -- Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg
    $5.2 mil
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• John Hancock Center, Chicago -- Skidmore Owing Merrill
    100-story, Chicago's third tallest building

• Pompidou Center, Paris - Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano (reappeared 1997)

• IBM Headquarters, Armonk NY 1964 -- SOM (Gordon Bunshaft); lobby/atrium -- I M Pei (reappeared1997)

• more   a l t e r e d   s t a t e s

(*****) much hyped projects in general press

"Herzog toasted the show [Light Construction - MoMA] for suggesting that perhaps the most radical architects of the day were those that abstained from intellectualism and dared just to be beautifully boring." [Kipnis J, elCq79]

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