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- 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)
- $26 million (nyt/iht_00.01.18)
- "the first national project dedicated solely to 'the murdered Jews of Europe.'" (ap_00.01.18)
- "a field of 2,700 close-set concrete pillars on a plot about the size of two football fields. An exhibition and multimedia document center will be partly underground at the site" (ap_00.01.18)
- more -- contested projects
i n c o n t e s t
- Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati -- finalists: Zaha Hadid (London), Daniel Libeskind (Berlin) and Bernard Tschumi (New York)
{also ran: semifinalists Diller & Scofidio, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Eric Owen Moss, Jean Nouvel, Antoine Predock, Wolf Prix}
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recent exhibitions
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d e - i c e d
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w i n n e r s under construction
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- Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1997 -- Rafael Moneo
- Japanese Cultural Center, Paris 1990 (competition); 1997 completed - Armstrong Associates
- Alexandria Library, Egypt 1989 (competition); construction 1996 -
Snohetta
b a g g a g e r o o m
-- have won & going ahead ...
b a g g a g e c l a i m -- have won & still waiting ...
n o w s h o w i n g
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- NuGen ecosys
- softcell-arc inc.
t r a v e l g u i d e --
d e b u t s & r e d u x --
recently opened, opening soon
t a k i n g - o f f
p r o j e c t s n o t e d
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currently under construction/recently completed
(*****) in-prints a n d being
built
(propaganda machine$ 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 ... ?
p l u m j o b s
- 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)
D u s t J a c k e t
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E x p e c t a t i o n ( G a m e )
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s t e a l t h ____________
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i.E. famous w o r k i n g d r a w i n g s
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 / e m e r g e d
- undetected others: l o w and or s l o w ?
high-profile low-visibility works under construction - Any
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(*****) B - E - l - o - v - e - d : ( & Over - Exposed )
m o b . j o b s under construction / recently completed
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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.
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)
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