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on screens
new projects - on the drawing boards

b l i p s

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

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

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

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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.

  
  

recently opened, opening soon

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

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

[Reagan Building, Washington DC]

• free trade
  "Eventually, the mammoth structure will house 7,000 federal workers, a 980-seat food court, restaurants and a privately run trade center that includes office space, a 650-seat auditorium and extensive exhibition spaces." (Apple RW, nyt_98.05.06)

• complement
  "The style of the structure is severe ... It looks like a neoclassical building waiting for the stone carvers to show up ..." (nyt_98.05.06)

• "Mount Wastemore"
  "Some find it dignified and impressive; Benjamin Forgey of The Washington Post called it 'brilliant.' But Deborah Dietsch, former editor of Architecture magazine, said its 'watered-down classicism' was 'neither fish nor fowl.' ..." (nyt_98.05.06)

• offhand boondoggle
  "The $362 mil 'phony number' ... 'That was before ... 2000 parking garage ..." (Robert Peck, the commissioner of public buildings at GSA)
  -- "It's one of the biggest boondoggles everseen in Federal construction ..." (Rep. John Duncan Jr, nyt_97.07.07)

• abortion
  "To have him identified with this abortion, which represents everything he was opposed to, is the ultimate irony." (Laxalt P, former Senator, wsj_98.01.05)

i n a u g r a l   s p i n s
after the fact / better late than ...
opening ceremonies/company press releases

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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

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

• progress report / status info ( ? )___

c o v e r t   c o n s t r u c t i o n s
s u b m e r g e d

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

[Bill Gates House, Seattle]

• ensconced
  "the funerary temple of Hatshepsut ... (buy the book, tour it on CD-ROM)." (Brown PL, nyt_97.08.04)

• gates keeping
  "For 1998 taxes, the county assessed the property at $53,392,000 ... The figure is based on construction costs ... but Gates has argued it might be more realistic to base it on what he could get for the property should he sell it. ...

  Last year, with workers still swarming over the construction site, the property was valued at about $33.4 million. According to county records, Gates' property tax for 1997 came to $388,830. At that tax rate, his 1998 tax would be $620,714.

  In contrast, an average-sized tract home in Seattle valued at $124,900 carries an annual tax of $1,663." ("Gates Challenges House Assessment," Tibbits G, ap_97.09.26)

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• gates moving in
  Gates originally estimated the house would take two or three years to build and cost up to $10 million, but design changes stretched out the job and its price tag. ..."
  (Tibbits G, ap_97.09.26)

• life 95
  "the house had been under construction for 'what seems like most of my life' ...'' (Bill Gates, "The Road Ahead.")
  -- "While the Gateses are moving in from their nearby temporary quarters, final construction of their new house is not expected to be completed until the end of the year." (r_97.09.18)

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• House on a Lake
  "Originally, Mr Gates had hired a young local ... who presented Mr Gates, then a bachelor, with .. a lodge design that proposed incorporating full-grown tress and fossils.

  After Mr Gates married, he and his wife started looking for an interior designer to ease up on the he-man imagery within and make it more comfy ... Enter Mr Despont ... adding a rotunda adjacent to the four-story grand staircase, cutting off the beam ends and adding mouldings.

  'There was a boldness of invention, a tastelessness of the nouveau riche ...' he said enthusing about the reign of Louis XIV." (Iovine JV, nyt_97.12.18)

m o r e   C E L E B - A R C H
feed the masses . . .

 
 
 
 
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

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[AmEx Tower remodelling, Sydney]

• denuded tone
  "completed in 1976, it was hailed by the architectural profession as state-of-the-art ... breaking new ground ... one of the few Australian office towers to make it into Sir Banister Fletcher's centenary edition of A History of Architecture, and one of only 29 Australian buildings pictured in the respected tone ... Now the building is being denuded of its most distinctive feature, its sunscreen ..." (Susskind A, "Architect sees red as his prized '60s baby is 'updated'," smh_97.04.09)

• vandal's guts
  "To add insult to injury ... the refurbishment is to be the work of Rice Daubney, designers of the pink and blue Coopers & Lybrand office tower, which Mr Andrews says has "no depth, no guts, no idea ..." (smh_97.04.09)

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• pink and blue
  "Sydney would put a moustache on Mona Lisa if there was money in it." (John Andrews, smh_97.04.09)
  

  
  

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[King George Tower, Sydney]
• imaginative speculation
  "This is arguably the most imaginative speculative ... in the world. You may not think it beautiful, but ..." (ar_Sep78)

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

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