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

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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

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t a k i n g - o f f  -- (un-?-remarkable)
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 ...)

[Cathedral of Hope, Dallas]   *** hEadlines

• first 21st
  "the Cathedral of Hope congregation has doubled its efforts to complete the entire project within seven years in honor of the legendary architect who is now 93." (bw_98.07.30)

 
[Philadelphia Performing Arts Center]

• gift
  "Some say Mr Vinoly has a gift for convincing clients to spend a little more ... Philadelphia started out with the idea of spending only $203 million on two concert halls, notably a 2,500-seat theater for the new home of the Philadelphia Orchestra. But for an extra 42 million, 'Rafael was able to get us the grandeur of a world class facility,' say Stephanie Naidoff, president of the Regional Arts Performing Center project. ... Mr Vinoly's fee for the project will be nearly $9 million." (Sandler L, wsj_98.06.17)

 
[Vontz Center for Molecular Sciences, Cincinnati]

• veto
  "Nothing I've ever worked on has even come close to this in terms of difficulty. In fact, I was the only one who bid on it,' said Bill Vetovitz, the 70-year-old chairman of Vet-o-vitz Masonry in Cleveland and a bricklayer for almost half a century." (cbc_98.04.27)

• forward play
  "The normal process just leads to the 'same old,'" Gehry added. "If you're going to move forward, you have to find people who are willing to play. He was willing to play." (cbc_98.04.27)

• between
  "375 curved brick panels ... some up to 29 feet high and almost every one different from the other in some way. ... It took 36 bricklayers seven months to complete the panels ... Cost for the job? Between $3.5 million and $4 million." (cbc_98.04.27)

 
[Cousins Properties Inc, Buckhead, Atlanta]

• Rorschach pimp
  "... the 21-story tower sports a sweeping glass bonnet, supported by four thrusting steel beams, that curves 100 feet over a rooftop garden ... a shell, an upside-down ski jump, a cabana ... translucent awning ... voracious video-game character ... a Pacman ... a gaudy eye sore."
  -- "If buildings were people, this one would be a pimp." (Howard Shook, president of Buckhead Neighborhood Alliance)

  "I call it a sail," Mr Pickard says. ... "It defines a welcoming hand. ... It's intended to embrace and define human activity." (wsj_98.01.07)

 
[Shanghai World Financial Center, Pudong, Shanghai, China]   *** hEadlines

• meltdown
  "Shanghai's Sen Mao building was planned as the world's tallest by Japan's Mori Group ... Mori says it has only suspended work on the promised 95-floor skyscraper while architects consider changes to the design." (Dunlevy M, age_98.12.12)   *** hEadlines

• jaded
  "Japan's mega-builder Minoru Mori wanted a building so tall that the engineers advised it needed some sort of aperture to relieve wind pressure. American architects Kohn Pedersen Fox complied, carving out a circle in keeping with the design, based on the jade rings and rectangles of ancient Chinese Iconography. ...

  Half a century after Japan occupied this city ... memories are still fresh -- and raw. ...

  The city relayed its concern to KPF -- along with a suggestion that steel flanges be added to the circle, turning it from a Japanese sun into a Chinese plum blossom ..." (Smith CS, wsj_98.07.20)

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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[Chek Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong]

• "The Night"
  "It's all in the planning ... Panic doesn't help." (Police Superintendent Steve Wordsworth on the move, in Landler M, nyt_98.07.06)

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• mistshroud
  "What no one anticipated was the huge wave of nostalgia which has engulfed Hong Kong for the old airport, named after two long-forgotten property developers, Sir Kai Ho-kai and Mr Au Tack" (O'Clery C, it_98.07.06)

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• akimbo
  "Another way to describe it: a human stick figure with splayed legs, stretched torso, arms akimbo and an oversized, flat head. ... Yet Tony Tan, a computer engineer and frequent flyer, sums it up this way: 'It's beautiful, but an airport is an airport. You want to get in and out as quickly as possible.' ..." (Wong Y, wsj_98.07.01)

• fish parties
  "Thus Hong Kong's mighty new airport is not just something that will one day handle 87 million passengers a year compared with the current 55 million at Heathrow. ... More specifically it is saying that Hong Kong is bigger and better than Singapore, whose marbled, thickly planted, be-fish-tanked airport is an object of such national pride that a continuous stream of school parties is taken round it." (Moore R, les_98.06.23)

• official boosterism
  "'We've built something the size of ...,' said Phillip Bruce, a spokesman for the Hong Kong Airport Authority, in the grandiose tone that characterizes most official descriptions of the project." (Landler M, "For Want of a Road, An Airport Languishes," nyt_98.05.17)

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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

[Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing]

• "Progress ... was badly hit when one sub-contractor ended up in court on fraud charges and then went bust ... Then supplies of another building component mysteriously dried up. The reason was that the supplier's wife ran off with his accountant, and both ran off with his company's money." - (blp135_Jan 97)

• 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 ?

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