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new projects - on the drawing boards

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new commissions  for mass media consumption

[The Canadian Opera House, Toronto]

• music lover
  "I don't play an instrument but I was on the board of Music Toronto, the chamber music series, and for my bachelor degree thesis at the University of Capetown, my project was a design for a concert hall." (Jack Diamond in Stoffman J, ts_98.08.05)

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[Miami Heat Basketball Arena, Miami]

• vice freak
  "Clients term Mr Fort-Brescia enormously energetic, willing to return calls any time. Built like the soccer player he once was, he is known as a 'control freak.' ...

  Still, control can slip at a company that grows too fast in boom times. ...

  Indeed, say Ron Pizzuti, a Columbus, Ohio, developer, 'anytime you're dealing with someone who's so much in demand, you have to be concerned they're taking more than they can handle.' ..." (Sandler L, wsj_98.07.22)

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[363 George Street Tower, Sydney]

• unfettered
  "The foreign-designed towers are in Sydney's showpiece Macquarie Street: on the way to the Opera House ..." (Susskind A, smh_98.07.13)

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• no partial services
  "They are those designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, British architect Sir Norman Foster, and by Richard Johnson and Jeff Walker of the Australian firm of Denton Corker Marshall." (Susskind A, smh_98.07.10)

• extra clever
  "We want to drag that character, which is quite civic, further down the street, to our development. ..." (Richard Johnson, in Susskind A, smh_98.07.10)

• tarted up
  "the stainless steel studs fixed to the granite and aluminium surfaces are 'spun', a finish that means they sparkle in sunlight." (Susskind A, smh_98.07.10)

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

[Jacksons Landing Development, Pyrmont, Sydney]

• user-friendly
  "Despite some of these unknown critics, ... ..." (Mr Greg Deas of Lend Lease, the project's planning and design manager, Susskind A, smh_98.08.10)

i n   c o n t e s t

[David L. Lawrence Convention Center Expansion, Pittsburgh]

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• detailed experience
  "Arquitectonica, Cesar Pelli, Rafael Vinoly, Pei Cobb Freed, Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Zimmer, Gunsul, Frasca." (prn_98.08.19)

• also partnered
  "Among the more prominent of those interested in the project: Mario Botta, Lugano, Switzerland ... Arquitectonica and Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum, respectively of Miami and St. Louis ... Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, New York ... Cesar Pelli & Associates Inc. of New Haven, Conn., and the Convention Center Design Group of Minneapolis ... Philip Johnson/ Alan Ritchie Architects of New York ... Murphy/Jahn Architects Inc., Chicago ... Michael Graves Architect of Princeton, NJ, and HNTB of Boston ... Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP of Chicago ... Eisenman Architects of New York, also partnered with HNTB ... Bohlin Cywinski Jackson of Pittsburgh, partnered with Wallace Roberts Todd of Philadelphia ...

  Other firms that requested data were: Gensler, San Francisco; Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates, Atlanta; Holabird & Root, Chicago; Fentress Bradburn Architects LTD, Denver and Boston; LMN Architects, Seattle; Rafael Vinoly Architects, New York and Boston; Zimmer, Gunsul, Frasca Partnership, Portland, Ore; Arthur Erickson Architectural Corp, Vancouver, BC; Cannon Architects, New York; Antoine Predock, Albuquerque, N.M., and Boston; Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, Boston; Steven Holl Architects, New York and Boston; Zeidler Roberts Partnership, Toronto and Boston; VOA Associates, Chicago; and A.J. Lumsden & Associates - RTKL Associates Inc., Los Angeles." (Miller D, ppg_98.08.13)

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• adjacent manager
  "In any arena, competition brings out the best and the brightest ... Competition is essential to the creation of a landmark structure ... The best of these architectural firms will create a signature building ... a first-day attraction ..." (Joseph Kane, Design Commission Chairman, in Barnes T, ppg_98.08.13)

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

[Cardiff Bay Opera House, Cardiff]

• patron
  "I have to say my Cardiff experience was very patronizing as a woman. One of the reasons it collapsed is because I'm a woman. There is no question about that at all in my mind." (Zaha Hadid in Ouroussoff N, "Building Around Change," lat_97.12.30)

• sanguine
  "When the project was finally rejected, he [Lord Crickhowell] writes, he felt physically sick. Hadid was more sanguine: 'It's a bummer'" (Ryan R, mm_98.03?)

l o s t   &   f o u n d

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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

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

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.

  
  

[British Library, London]   *** hEadlines

• dissolved
  "The row over the new library centred on the amount of time and money that was spent on building it. Its designer, Prof Colin St John Wilson, who was knighted for his work, blamed criticism of the architecture on his decision to dissolve his design company last year." (Donnelly R, it_98.06.26)

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• mortifying
  " ... this labour of love must have seemed at times to be endless" (Queen Elizabeth, itn_98.06.25)

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[Princeton University Stadium]

• sports medicine
  "In the last decade, with places like Denver's Coors Field, the sport stadium has emerged as America's most diseased building type, an expression of arrested development in the innocent guise of nostalgia." (Muschamp H, nyt_98.06.21)

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• designer stadium
  "... Mr Vinoly has the casual air of world traveler and intellectual. Three pair of glasses are in evidence ..." (Sandler L, wsj_98.06.17)

• design flair
  "'it wouldn't be the first time that a client has picked someone who they thought could give them design flair,' a spokesman for HOK Sports Facilities says. ... Counters Mr Vinoly, 'Only a jerk would be proud of just being able to get people into and out a building." (Sandler L, wsj_98.06.17)

t a k i n g - o f f  -- (un-?-er-markable)
n o t e d   p r o j e c t s
currently under construction/recently completed

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

i n a u g r a l   s p i n s

arch after the fact / better late than ... / better built than ... / better bad than ...
opening ceremonies / company press releases

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• plum of the day

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

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• progress report / status info ( ? )___

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

• progress report / status info ( ? )___

c o v e r t   c o n s t r u c t i o n s

• undetected others: f l y i n g   low and s l o w ?
  high-profile low-visibility works under construction - ANY tips anyone ?

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