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- Whitney Museum of American Art Addition, New York -- Renzo Piano
"to add up 70,000 square feet of space"
"details will not be finalized until later this year"
"after a six month search"
Architecture consultant: Reed Kroloff (now dean of Tulane University School of Architecture) helped compile a list of around 50 architects. Trustee Melva Bucksbaum narrowed the field to a short list of 12.
~ also ran: Herzog & De Meuron, David Chipperfield, Tood Williams Billie Tsien & Associates, Mr Gluckman, and a number of younger firms.
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- Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
- Art Institute of Chicago, a 220,000-square-foot wing
- Pompidou Center, Paris
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- The New York Times 52-story tower, Manhattan
- West Harlem Campus for Columbia University
- Dallas Center for The Performing Arts, Dallas
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- Whitney Museum of American Art Addition, New York -- OMA/Rem
Koolhaas
$200 mil
"canceled" April 2003
first, 11-story addition; scaled back to 9-story addition
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles -- OMA/Rem Koolhaas
$300 mil
"indefinitely postponed" December 2002
- Prada Epicenter, San Fransisco -- OMA/Rem Koolhaas
12-story
"also on the ropes"
- Whitney Museum of American Art Addition, New York 1985 -- Michael Graves
$37.5 million, 134,000 square foot
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- Millenium Park, Chicago -- Frank Gehry
- National Australia Bank (NAB) Headquarters, Docklands, Melbourne
-- James Grose, of Bligh Voller Nield
- 58,800 square meter
- AUS $250 mil
- SEDA 4 star energy rating
- Lend Lease Headquarters, 30 The Bond, on Hickson Road, Millers Point, Sydney
-- Lend Lease (Dominic Snellgrove, Che Wall) with Peddle Thorp for Deutsche Property Trust
- Australia's first five-star-rated eco-sustainable office building
- on short-list for the Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award 2004
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p l u m j o b s
- Scottish Parliament House, Holyrood, Scotland, UK -- Enric Miralles
-- "the price ticket ... edges ever closer to the magic half billion pound mark ($895 million)" (Hugh Pearman, st_04.05.23)
-- "[Sydney] Opera House's price rose more than 14-fold between competition and completion, whereas the Holyrood project, assuming costs do not spiral beyond 500m, will have a ten fold-rise. Albeit over a much shorter period - six years for Holyrood rather than 17 for Sydney." (Hugh Pearman, st_04.05.23)
-- "... the message running round the world is how angry the Scots are about the escalating price, up from £40 to £431 million, almost 11 times the initial estimate
(the Sydney Opera House cost only 10 times its original budget)." (Charles Jencks, sh_04.08.08)
- previous entry: Scottish Parliament House competition, 1998
- Prada
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- Roissy-Charles De Gaulle, Terminal2E, Paris -- Paul Andreu, ADP (Aeroports de Paris)
EUR 750 million (USD 896 million) [afp_04.05.24]
- Tropicana Casino and Resort, Atlantic City
collapsed Fall 2003, killed four workers
- John Hancock Tower, Boston -- I. M. Pei & Partners (Henry Cobb)
the windows falling in 1973; killed no one
- Millennium Bridge, London -- Foster & Partners
swaying after it opened in June 2000
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