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[7 S Dearborn Building, Chicago] government requirement "The 108-story, 2,000-foot tower is a correcting force on the local architecture scene. The city has been so content lately to revel in the minutiae of urban design--new wrought iron public fencing, faux 1920s street lamps and bountiful median planters made of concrete--that it often forgets Chicago must also uphold its legacy as a place of big, bold buildings and progressive architecture." (Lee Bey, _99.09.26)

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[William J Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock] previously <<<< on Clinton Library

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

 

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[Guggenheim Museum, East River, New York]     *** more interplanetary mahout "With his tame architect Frank Gehry along for the ride, like a loyal mahout on a rocking howdah, Mr Krens, inflated to bursting with self-confidence after his interplanetary success with the Gehry Guggenheim in Bilbao ..." (wsj_00.05.03)   building binge "square-footage: Lower Manhattan Guggenheim 2000 -- Frank O Gehry: 550,000 sf Tate Modern -- Herzog De Meuron 371,350 sf conversion New York MoMA : Yoshio Taniguchi: 230,000 sf expansion San Fransisco MoMA -- Mario Botta: 220,000 sf exhibition space: Guggenheim 1959 -- Frank Lloyd Wright: 50,000 sf of exhibition space Lower Manhattan Guggenheim 2000 -- Frank O Gehry: 200,000 sf of exhibition space Bilbao Guggenheim -- Frank O Gehry: 114,000 sf of exhibition space " (Eric Gibson, wsj_00.05.12)   policy "... a possible Hudson River site in Manhattan ... seemed dead. ... Gehry was scheduled to present city officials with a plan for a different site, on the East River in lower Manhattan. A New York City Economic Development Corporation spokesman refused to comment, saying, 'It's our policy not to discuss proposals under evaluation.'" (nwk_99.10.04)

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b a g g a g e   c l a i m -- have won & still waiting ...

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[Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University, New York City]

• fashionable
  "'I drive very fast cars,' he says. 'I have Porsches, several. One in New York, two in Paris. I was going probably too fast and found myself slamming against a tree.

  The car was destroyed, but not his cellular phone. He called New York. 'I said, "You'd better call a surgeon." It was a long operation. I am very full of titanium, which is fashionable among architects these days.' ..." (Bernard Tschumi in James Barron, nyt_99.10.05)

[TBWA/Chiat/Day, Playa del Rey]

• phenomenal shift
  "While it may be striking and lively ... it doesn't quite break the old pecking order. ... And as for staying in touch with the consumer, the new TBWA/Chiat/Day is an interior world. ... ... 'it's a little like a casino.' ... Even the new artwork is self-reflective ..." (Anderton F, nyt_98.12.17)

• right on the edge
  "Meanwhile in New York, the virtual office designed by Gaetano Pesce, however gorgeous, sent some staff members over the edge. Wilkinson says the agency has moved out of its overcrowded and confusing space into new offices that he is designing." (Anderton F, nyt_98.12.17)

t a k i n g - o f f  -- (un-?-er-markable)
n o t e d   p r o j e c t s
currently under construction/recently completed

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

[Conde Nast Building, Times Square, New York]

• protean phoebe
  "This development is surely preferable to the hulking quartet of nearly identical corporate towers originally planned to rise here. Unless it's not." (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_99.09.26)

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

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

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