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• South Bank, London
  

   

• San Jose City Hall -- Richard Meier
  {also ran: Robert Siegel of Gwalthmey Siegel, New York; John Yudell of Moore Ruble Yudell, Santa Monica; James Freed of Pei Cobb Freed, New York; Rafael Vinoly, New York; and Craig Hartman of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, San Francisco}

   

• William J Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, Arkansas
    $100 mil
  site: 26 acres of warehouses and vacant lots on the banks of the Arkansas River

• United States Mission to the United Nations -- Gwathmey Siegel

• tip anyone ( ? )____

• more blips -- frozen blips

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

• Zuidas, World Trade Center, South Amsterdam
    $5.9 billion plan to expand Amsterdam's World Trade Center into a major international financial hub
    6,500,000 sq ft office space
   1,500 apartments/houses
  
  • ABN-Amro Holding NV Headquarters -- Henry Cobb of Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners
  • ING Group NV --

   

• Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas -- Gluckman Mayner Architects/ Richard Gluckman
  100,000 gross sf; $35 mil; to open 2002
  {also ran: Christian de Portzamparc of Paris, Moshe Safdie of Boston, Toronto and Jerusalem}
  

  Also on board/ under construction: Mori Museum, Tokyo, 100,000 sf; the Picasso Museum, Malaga, Spain

• Academy Awards Theater, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles -- David Rockwell in association with Ehrencrantz Eckstut & Kuhn, and Altoon & Porter

• more -- new Arrivals

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

• National Museum of Australia, Acton Peninsula on Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra -- Ashton Raggatt McDougall
    $150 mil
    ground breaking November 1998

• more -- contested projects

i n   c o n t e s t

• 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

• Opera House, Washington D C -- Pei Cobb Freed
• more

l o s t   &   f o u n d

• Scottish Parliament House, Holyrood, Scotland, UK -- Enric Miralles
    £60 mil
  {also ran: ...}

• 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

• Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1997 -- Rafael Moneo
• more

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 ;

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• NuGen ecosys
  
• softcell-arc inc.

• m o r e

  
  

• Shanghai Grand Theater, Shanghai, China -- Jean-Marie Charpentier
    $150 mil

• Rainbow Bridge United States Gateway, Niagara NY -- Hardy Holtzman Pfeiffer
    ~scheduled to open Dec 98

• Scully Hall, Princeton University -- Machado Silvetti
    ~scheduled to open Nov 98<

   

• Federal Courthouse, Fort Channel, Boston -- Henry Cobb/Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Jung/Brannen Associates
   
• Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore -- Gwathmey Siegel

• Grand Central Terminal Renovation, New York -- Warren & Wetmore, Beyer Blinder Belle
    ~reopened 1 Oct 98
   
• Daimler-Benz complex, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
  4 billion marks (US$2.3 billion)
  Daimler-Benz's financial service Debis Tower -- Renzo Piano
  Sony --
  $630 mil
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• Lucerne Culture and Convention Center, Lake Lucerne -- Jean Nouvel
    $134 mil
  competition 1990
  Concert Hall, 1,840-seat, opened 19-Aug98
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• Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabruck, Germany -- Daniel Libeskind
    ~opened 16-Jul98

  
  
  

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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 ...)

• Baruch College, City University of New York, Lexington Avenue, New York -- Kohn Pedersen Fox

• Sotheby, New York -- Kohn Pedersen Fox
    $100 mil
   
• The Staples Center, Harbor Freeway/Interstate 10, Los Angeles -- NBBJ
    $350 mil
    28-acre home to three LA sports teams: the Kings, Lakers and Clippers
   
• Salt Lake City International Airport -- Gensler/ HNTB Corp
    $994 mil;
    ~to be completed 2005
  -- a new terminal building, north and south concourses, a parking structure and ground transportation center

  
  

• 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 )

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinski, Finland 1992-1998 -- Steven Holl
• 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

• Beekman Place Triplex, New York City -- Paul Rudolph
    now on the market for $5.65 million, reduced from $6.25 million

• 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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