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• Museum of Bristol -- Lab Architecture Studio
  L18.5m Harbourside museum to showcase the city's history and heritage
  will open in 2009

 
• National Art School (NAS), Darlinghurst Gaol, Sydney -- winner: Alexander Tzannes Associates (ATA)
  for Bernard Ollis, NAS Director

  {also-ran -- shortlistees: Durbach Block (DBA), Johnson Pilton Walker (JPW) -- Richard Johnson}

   
  

• BBC Music Centre, White City, close to Television Centre, 2003 -- Foreign Office Architecture (FOA): Alejandro Zaera Polo, Farshid Moussavi

  also ran: Zaha Hadid ("their closest rival for the BBC job"), Future Systems ("architects of the acclaimed new polka-dot Birmingham Selfridges"), MVRDV, and the "Anglo-Japanese architects" Ushida Findlay

  Other competitions FOA just finished:

  • second Pompidou Centre in Metz, France
  • seafront development, Hastings
  • extension to the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
  
  

  "It was like giving birth to many, many babies over the summer."
  (Farshid Moussavi, in Hugh Pearman, st_03.11.23)

• more >>
• << previous shoo-in

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 ...

d e - i c e d ------ F I R S T   P R I Z E
w i n n e r s   under construction
/ recently completed

• the country of origin
  "Beware of the prestigious international architectural competition. Try and ascertain beforehand if the final choice is going to be made by the national leader and not by the architectural judges--particularly important if you are not from the country of origin. (James Stirling, riba38_91.06)

• victorious
  "When I entered the competition for Porta Victoria we sat down and drew what we thought each one of our competitors would do, and we were absolutely right." (Steven Holl, ecq78)

 

• "Each year, 1400 young hopefuls submit their CVs to Koolhaas' exacting perusal; very few are chosen. 'Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate,' say Koolhaas." (Marcus Fairs, icon_04.07.07)
   
  
• "... to win a total of 11 building projects through architectural competitions, [Dominique] Perrault's office has produced an average of one new design project every two months over a period of 10 years." (Ellis C, aj_5Aug92)
   
  
• "Frank Gehry's CV runs to 56 pages. That's ten pages more than Peter Hall's, and his is ten pages longer than fishface's and so on. 30-page CV's are the way to go." (Peter Cook, hoping to sign up a galaxy of stars to come to the Barlett ... He only wants people with big CVs ---- in Martin Pawley talks to Peter Cook, "Making paper architecture concrete," blp88_Jun92 )

• "When one considers that he [Le Corbusier] produced some fifty books and about fifty-seven finished buildings, one understands the singular nature of his contributions ..." (Jencks C 1973, "LC and the Tragic View ...")

• more

"New York Harry Macklowe says his 65-story tower ... is really 78 stories tall. Following Donald Trump's dubious example, Macklowe simply skips numbers 17 to 29, claiming that since his floors are 13 1/2ft high, or 4 1/2ft higher than the norm, his 18th floor is really the equivalent of a conventional 30th. (He also omits unlucky 13 and counts the mechanical 17th as three ordinary floors)." (pa_8503)

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