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• Institute of Contemporary Art, Fan Pier, South Boston -- architect yet to be selected; Jill Medvedow, ICA director
    $40 million
    60,000 sf, four-story building; 75 ft high with a roof sculpture garden
    400-seat theater, three classrooms, a 125-seat restaurant, a retail book store and shop
  

  {also ran: an opera house complex/Josiah Spaulding of the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, a 700-seat theater for the Boston Ballet and the Boston Lyric Opera/Glenn KnicKrehm, a Boston entrepreneur}

  
   
  
• Harvard's new museum, along the Charles River currently occupied by Mahoney's Garden Center -- Renzo Piano

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- Norman Foster

• Peabody Essex Museum, Salem -- Moshe Safdie
    ~slated for completion in 2003
   
  
• Office-and-retail building, Mt Auburn Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge MA -- Hans Hollein
    25,000 sf
  

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• more blips -- frozen blips

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• Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin -- Herzog & de Meuron, Booziotis & Co
    $40 mil
    ~to open in late 2002

   
  

• Ray and Maria Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge MA -- Frank O Gehry
    ~completion is scheduled for 2003

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

 

• Pfizer Inc. Research Center, Groton, Connecticut --
      "one of the largest drug-discovery laboratory buildings in the world" (wsj_99.10.04)  
  
• Merck & Co. Chemistry Drug-Discovery Building, Rahway, New Jersey --
      325,000-square-foot  
  
• Johnson & Johnson., La Jolla, California --
      122,000-square-foot

  
  

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