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n e w A r r i v a l
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[South Arm, Tasmania]
[The National Grand Theater, Beijing]
"Modern Beijing is a product of its conservative leaders, a city of bathroom-tile boxes accented by tinted-glass windows and capped by kitschy interpretations of traditional rooftops. It astonished nearly everyone that the Proprietor's Committee -- with the approval of the nations's highest officials -- would opt to build a foreign-designed titanium dome entered through an underwater tunnel in the sacred precint of Tiananmen Square." (Sheila Melvin, wsj_00.09.06)
"Criticism of the design ... ranges from the difficulty of keepiong a glass structure clean in dusty Beijing to its allegedly non-Chinese nature and the fact that Mr Andreu is a foreigner. It is the last two criticisms that clearly affect Mr Andreu most." (Sheila Melvin, wsj_00.09.06)
"What am I a developer of? I have built five huts, a standing camp and a couple of sheds on private land. That's a developer?" (Ken Latona, architect and "a very, very good and sensible ecotourist operator, with strict adherence to environmental philosophies," in Libby Lester, "The thin green line," ann_00.01.09)
[Fan Pier, South Boston]
"To select architects, the Pritzker team is putting together lists of about seven prime firms for each on the nine buildings that will be constructed. ... Firms that are expected to be invited to compete include New York based Robert AM Stern Architects. ... Kohn Pederson Fox Associates of New York. ... So are Boston firms Jung/Brannen Associates and Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc." (Jeffrey Krasner, wsj_00.05.17)
[Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC]
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"Gehry was in Washington to show what he had accomplished in the five years since he designed Bilbao. More than 1,600 of Washington's design faithful -- the largest audience in memory for an architecture lecture -- flocked to the National Building Museum's Great Hall to see him." (wp_00.01.22)
"Since the Guggenheim, Gehry, who cuts an elfin, silver-haired figure at 70, has become something of a celebrity. In Bilbao, people try to touch him; at airports, he's stopped for autographs." (wp_00.01.22)
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w i n n e r s under construction
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[Branch Library, North Harvard Street, Allston, Boston]
"Here and there, the mix of so many materials feels fussy, like a display of
samples you might see in a manufacturer's showroom ... 'It
was necessary to counter the anti-modernist feeling in the neighborhood with texture,' says Silvetti." (Robert Campbell, bg_010621)
"What's most puzzling about the library is that there don't seem to be many
books. There is, in fact, shelf space for only 37,000 volumes. The
collection numbers 50,000; librarians explain the discrepancy by suggesting
that many books will be out circulating at any given time. (By way of
contrast, the main Newton library contains 430,000 volumes.)" (Robert Campbell, bg_010621)
"But 'appropriateness' is a useless gauge of architectural value. Rather, it has become equivalent to the notion of progress in the postwar decades. It represents the evasion of responsibility for personal preference. 'Don't hold me accountable. History made me do it. Peer pressure made me do it.' Mediocrity loves company." (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_00.09.10)
t a k i n g - o f f
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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 ...)
[Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas]
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"a 43-story building 'as tall as the city allows,' is a bit of an aesthetic letdown. But writer-director Kurt Sayenga's use of time-lapse photography guarantees a gripping finale, even though it takes place in one of the gaudiest cities of the world." (Ernesto Lechner, lat_00.01.24)
i n a u g r a l s p i n s
arch after the fact / better late than ... / better built than ... / better bad than ...
opening ceremonies / company press releases
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E x p e c t a t i o n s
[Alexander Platz, Berlin]
"There is talk of knocking it all down and erecting an updated version of Rockefeller Center - an idea that leaves many Berliners cold." (William A Davis, bg_99.12.26)
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