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- Bill Gates' House, Medina, Lake
Washington, Seattle 1989-1991 (first scheduled); 1989-1997 --
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson/ Peter Bohlin, James Cutler
(otherwise often listed as "Guest House and Garage, Medina, Washington")
{also ran: Peter Forbes, Charles Moore, William Turnbull}
** 41-year-old Gates, top of 1997 Forbes 400 list, worth $39.8 billion, up from $18.5 billion a year ago,
- 37,000 sf, 20-car garage, $30 mil;
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mil;
- 20,000 sf (1,858 m2) main home and other structures on five-acre (2.024 hectares) lot, an indoor swimming pool, movie theater, health spa, 30-car
garage, a trampoline room, $60 mil; (rns_97.09.18)
- "40,000 sf mansion ... set on 5 acres that includes a man-made trout stream ... 60-ft pool, a sauna, a 1,700 sf guest house, a trampoline room, a 20-seat theater, an arcade, a 24-screen video wall, a sport court, a dock for water skiing, two spas, a formal dining room and library, and a reception hall for 100 people, $53,392,000 ..." (ap_97.09.26)
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- Electronic Arts UK Headquarters, near Heathrow - Sir Norman Foster and Partners
£ 35 million, 10,000m2 three-story building;
second phase 7500m2 of warehouses.
{Lost: Richard Rogers Partnership, Sheppard Robson.}
- The Cross Bath spa complex (UK) -
Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners
£ 11 million restoration, conversion and new pool. {Lost: Feilden & Clegg, Ferguson Mann and Eva Jiricna, David Chipperfield.} (3.6.97)
- Britannic Tower, London - Santiago Calatrava
Britannic House Redevelopment (Wates City, developer), to be the
second highest building in the City of London, England. (04.03.97)
- Luxor Theater, Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam 1996 -- Bolles and Wilson
- ( ? )____
- . . . (ctd. from) previous blips -- old blips -- frozen blips
- back to current blips
n e w A r r i v a l
new commissions for mass media consumptions
- The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles 1996 - Jose Rafael
Moneo
$45 mil; construction is scheduled
to begin in 1997 and be completed in 2000.
- (99.12.12)
"mission: to make a monument that would last 500 years"
"at $69.6 million the nation's most expensive Catholic cathedral"
"the total cost for the cathedral, underground parking, housing and other structures within the cathedral complex is $163.2 million"
"the site was bought for $10.8 million in 1996. The ground was blessed the next year and construction began in October 1998. The cathedral is to be completed in fall 2001 or winter 2002"
- Citibank Headquarters, Canary Wharf, Docklands, London 1996 -
Foster and Partners
50,000 m2 corporate front office,
£300 mil
- MCA-Universal City, Los Angeles 1996 --
Rem Koolhaas/OMA
$3 billion expansion master plan, new offices, the company's
headquarters redesign
- back to current -- New Arrivals
(*****) contested projects in general press
- Holocaust Memorial, Judenplatz, Vienna Austria -- Rachel Whiteread
- Wandsworth --'Guinness'-- Riverside Development, London - Foster and Partners
£175 mil, 290m river front
- London International Futures and Options Exchange (LIFOE) building, Spitalfields, London 1997 - Foster and Partners
£50mil, 70,000m2
- The World War II Memorial, Washington DC 1997 - Friedrich St. Florian/Hartman Cox
$100mil
- The New York Stock Exchange expansion, New York NY
- The National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall,
Washington DC 1994 - Douglas Cardinal/ GBQC
$110 mil
- The Extension to the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1996 -- Daniel Libeskind
$63mil
£75m
competition unveiled May 1996; also ran:
- back to current -- contested projects
i n c o n t e s t
- Mercedes-Benz of North America Corporate Headquarters, Pearl River NY -- Gensler (New York NY) in association with SNS Architects & Engineers
(Montvale NJ); The Hillier Group (Princeton NJ); Kohn Pedersen Fox
Associates (New York NY); Lauber & Wohr Architects (Munich, Germany),
Murphy/Jahn Inc. (Chicago IL).
- Toyota (GB) Headquarters, Surrey UK -- Aukett Associates, Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, Nicholas Hare Architects, Sheppard Robson
12,744 m2 (Oct 97)
- MoMA Expansion, New York, Jan97 -- Finalists: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (Switzerland), Yoshio Taniguchi (Japan), Bernard Tschumi (USA)
First phasers: Wiel Arets (The Netherlands), Steven Holl (USA), Toyo Ito (Japan), Rem Koolhaas (The Netherlands), Dominique Perrault (France), Rafael Vinoly (USA), Tod Williams, Billie Tsien (USA).
- Coliseum Competition Redux, New York 1997;
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paid-to-win : invited beauty contests
- Mercedes-Benz of North America Corporate Headquarters, Montvale NJ 1997 -- Lauber & Wohr
- The Museum of Modern Art Expansion, New York 1997 -- Yoshio Taniguchi
- National Archives Building, Quebec - Dan S Hanganu with Provencher Roy
- Imperial War Museum, Trafford, Manchester (Jul97) - Daniel Libeskind
{also-ran: Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, Future Systems, Michael Wilford & Partners, Chris Wilkinson Associates}
- Cinematheque - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (Jun97) - Kazuyo Sejima (Japan)
$25 mil.
{also-ran: Andrew Andersons/Peddle Thorp (Sydney), Edmund and Corrigan (Melbourne), Steven Holl (New York), Tod Williams (New York), Enric
Miralles (Spain), Heikkinen-Komonen (Finland)}
- UT-Houston Health Science Center, Houston 1996 - Patkau Architects.
{also-ran: Tod Williams/Billie Tsien, Steven Holl, Machado/Silvetti, Enrique Norton, Lake Flato}
- more recent winners
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
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 ...
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- NuGen ecosys
- softcell-arc inc.
t r a v e l g u i d e --
d e b u t s & r e d u x --
recently Opened
- Amanjiwo Resort, Menorah Hills, Central Java - Edward Tuttle (Jul97)
for Adrian Zeha
- Arizona Science Center, Phoenix - Antoine Predock (Jul97?)
$47 mil.
- The Palais des Beaux Arts revamp, Lille - Jean-Marc Ibos, Myrto Vitart
"A couple of years late, and many millions of francs above budget, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille has finally opened." (ft_97.06.04)
- Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago - Fujikawa Johnson (18-Feb97)
$182 mil; 90,500 sf 65ft high trading hall; expansion of the original Board of Trade Building (Holabird & Root 1930), and addition (Helmut Jahn 1980)
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteroi, Rio de
Janeiro - Oscar Niemeyer (Sep96)
21,528 sq ft, $5.5 mil.
- travel guide -- more itenaries
- . . . (ctd. from) travel guide -- previous itenaries
- travel guide -- current itenary
- m o r e - t r i p s, the frivolous, exquisite
t a k i n g - o f f
-- (un-?-remarkable)
n o t e d p r o j e c t s
currently under construction/recently completed
(*****) in-prints a n d being
built
(propaganda machine$ at work ...)
- The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center ("the Federal Triangle"),
Washington DC 1998 -- James Ingo Freed/ Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
$738 mil, 3.1mil gsf; $818 mil (wsj_98.01.05); $816 million, "a mere $448 million more than Congress projected in 1987" (nyt_98.05.06)
- National Airport, Washington DC - Cesar Pelli
$400 mil
~opened 27-July, 1997
- Internal Revenue Service office building, New Carrollton, Washington DC -- Kohn Pedersen Fox
- Federal Bureau of Investigation field office, near Judiciary Square, Washington DC -- Skidmore Owings Merrill
- Cooke Stadium, near Washington DC -- Ellerbe Becket
- MCI Center, Washington DC -- KCF-SHG
- International Finance Corp Headquarters, Washington DC -- Michael Graves
- World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC -- Kohn Pedersen Fox
- International Terminal at Baltimore-Washington International Airport -- William Nicholas Bodouva
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, West Potomac Park, Washington DC -- Lawrence Halprin
- Women in Military Service Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC -- Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi
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p l u m j o b s
D u s t J a c k e t
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g o n e ________________
s t e a l t h ____________
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i.E. famous w o r k i n g d r a w i n g s
c o v e r t c o n s t r u c t i o n s
- undetected others: f l y i n g low and or s l o w ?
high-profile
low-visibility works under construction - ANY
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