on screens
new projects - on the drawing boards

b l i p s

• Second Stage troupe Theater, Times Square, New York -- Rem Koolhaas/ Richard Gluckman
    299-seat house; ~to open Feb99

• tip anyone ( ? )____

• more blips -- frozen blips

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

 

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

  spin-off promotion:
  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

   
  

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

• more -- new Arrivals

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

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

   
  

• German Holocaust Memorial, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin -- Peter Eisenman
  {also ran: Peter Eisenman/ Richard Serra, Jochen Gerz, Daniel Libeskind, Gesine Weinmiller}
  - five-acre site near the Brandenburg Gate
  - scheduled to be announced March 1998 (r_98.04.15);
  - "hopping to reach a final agreement by the end of June" [1998] (nyt_98.06.04)
  - "a final decision on the design will be made before the Sept 27 [1988] election" (wp_98.07.22)
  - $26 million (nyt/iht_00.01.18)
  - "the first national project dedicated solely to 'the murdered Jews of Europe.'" (ap_00.01.18)
  - "a field of 2,700 close-set concrete pillars on a plot about the size of two football fields. An exhibition and multimedia document center will be partly underground at the site" (ap_00.01.18)
  

• more -- contested projects

i n   c o n t e s t

• Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati -- finalists: Zaha Hadid (London), Daniel Libeskind (Berlin) and Bernard Tschumi (New York)
  {also ran: semifinalists Diller & Scofidio, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Eric Owen Moss, Jean Nouvel, Antoine Predock, Wolf Prix}

• 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

• Cardiff Bay Opera House, UK 1994 -- Zaha Hadid

l o s t   &   f o u n d

• Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati -- Zaha Hadid
    Sixth and Walnut Streets
    $25mil; ~to open 2002
  {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
• Japanese Cultural Center, Paris 1990 (competition); 1997 completed - Armstrong Associates
• Alexandria Library, Egypt 1989 (competition); construction 1996 - Snohetta

• more

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:

  
  

• NuGen ecosys
  
• softcell-arc inc.

• m o r e

  
  

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• Signal Hill Golf Center, 2550 Orange Ave 1998 -- Koning Eizenberg
    $1.3 mil
  -
• Terminal One, Kennedy Airport, New York 1998 -- William Nicholas Bodouva & Associates
  -
  
• Stade de France, Paris

  
  
  

• 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 ...)

• Cathedral of Hope, Dallas -- Philip Johnson
    $20 million; 2,500-seat sanctuary
   
  
• Philadelphia Performing Arts Center, Philadelphia -- Rafael Vinoly
  $245 million; ~to be completed 2001.
   
  
• The Vontz Center for Molecular Sciences, University of Cincinnati OH -- Frank Gehry
  $35 million; ~to be completed 1999.
   
  
• Cousins Properties Inc, Buckhead, Atlanta -- Jon Pickard, HKS Inc
  $84 mil {also ran: Pei Cobb Freed, Skidmore Owings Merrill}
  ~to be completed 1998.
  
   
  
• Shanghai World Financial Center (The Mori Shanghai), Pudong, Shanghai, China 1994-2001 -- Kohn Pedersen Fox
    310,000 m2, 95-story, 1,509-ft-tall

  
  

• 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

• Altera Corporate Headquarters, San Jose -- RMW (opened 3-Nov97)
    500,000 sf, 2000 employees  
  
• New Delphi World Headquarters and Customer Center, Troy MI - William Kessler
    264,000 sf
  

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

 

1. Chek Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong -- Norman Foster
   ~to open July 6, 1998 -- three months late (nyt_98.05.17)
   0.8 mile long, Y-shaped terminal, 8-levels, covering an expanse of nearly 2 million square feet of space on 3,084-acre island dredged from the ocean floor
   -- "the caverneous baggage-claim area alone is the size of New York City's Yankee Stadium" (wsj_98.07.01)
   -- able to handle 87 million passengers a year and 3 million tons of cargo
   -- "At $20 billion, it is the second-most-expensive airport, after Kansai International in Japan." (nyt_98.07.06)

     $20 billion ("significantly more expensive than the Channel Tunnel connecting England to Europe" -- wsj_98.07.01)

   
   

• 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 )

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 ( ? )____
• 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 ?

(*****)   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.

• 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

• Equitable Life Assurance Society 1978, Charlotte -- Harry Wolf
   
  
• Marin County Civic Center -- Frank Lloyd Wright
   
  
• Dulles International Airport 1962 -- Eero Saarinen
    Concourse B -- Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (wp_98.01.24)
    $130mil

   
  

• Companhia PanAmericano (Copan), Sao Paolo Brazil 1954-1963 -- Oscar Niemeyer (r_98.01.22)

• more   a l t e r e d   s t a t e s

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

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