on screens
new projects - on the drawing boards

b l i p s

• tip anyone ( ? )____

• more blips -- frozen blips

n e w   A r r i v a l
new commissions  -- for mass media consumption

• Olympic Park Railway Station, Sydney -- Hassell Architects/Ken Maher, Rodney Uren
  catering for 50,000 people or 30 trains an hour
   
  
• Gateway Visitor Center, Philadelphia 1998 -- Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood
  {also ran: Susan Maxman Partners; Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and Ueland Junker McCauley; Kling Lindquist; the Vitetta Group}
   
  
• The Jewish Museum, Yerba Buena, San Fransisco, CA 1998 -- Daniel Libeskind
  70,000 sf

• more -- new Arrivals

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

 
• Washington New Convention Center, Washington DC -- Thompson Ventulett Stainback
    $685 mil; $296/sq ft; ~to open 2002

   
  

• Walsh Bay Wharves Redevelopment, Sydney 1988 -- Philippe Robert
  **** hEadlines

   
  

• Millenium Dome, Greenwich, London, 1994 -- Richard Rogers Partnership, Imagination, Buro Happold
    $1.27 billion, (£758 mil)
    "Standing 164 feet high, with a floor area of nearly 20 acres, and a circumference exceeding 1,000 yards, it boasts dimensions twice as large as the Georgia Dome in Atlanta." (wsj_98.12.02)

    "50 metres tall at the centre, the same height as Nelson's Column, 320 metres across, one kilometre around the edge with a floorspace of more than 20 acres"
    "large enough to contain 13 Albert Halls or two Wembley Stadiums, has a footprint 10 times the size of St Paul's Cathedral and could hold 18,000 double decker buses"
    "twelve 100m steel masts held in place by more than 70km of high strength cable covered with the fabric skin" (Jo Butler pan_)

    1,050 feet in diameter, 165 feet high at its center
    "large enough to shelter a reclining Eiffel Tower ... could hold 13 Royal Albert Halls or 18,000 double-decker buses; the fabric roof could support a jumbo jet"
    "twice the size of Atlanta's Georgia Dome -- previously the world's largest" (ap/cpi_99.12.15)

• more -- contested projects

i n   c o n t e s t

• IIT Campus Center, Chicago -- Helmut Jahn/ Werner Sobek (Chicago), Peter Eisenman (New York), Zaha Hadid (London), Rem Koolhaas/ OMA (Rotterdam), Kazuyo Sejima/ Ryue Nishizawa (Toyko)

• more   in con-test
• in con-test : see also recent exhibitions
• recent winners  ------   paid-to-win

 
d e p a r t u r e   L o u n g e
p r e m a t u r e   l a n d i n g

• Tour Sans Fins, Paris 1989 - Jean Nouvel

l o s t   &   f o u n d

• Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles CA - Frank O Gehry
  • "The project was halted in 1995 after escalating costs raised the price to $265 mil, from the original estimate of $110 mil, though the estimate later lowered to $220 mil." (Weinraub B, nyt_97.12.02)

• IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Chicago -- Rem Koolhaas/OMA
    $25mil; ~to open 2000;
  {also ran: ...}

• more

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
/recetly completed

• Miami Performing Arts Center, Miami 1995-competition; 1997-final design phases debated -- Cesar Pelli.
  {also-ran: Rem Koolhaas, Arquitectonica etc}
    $122 mil

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

• Musicon Bremen 1995 - Daniel Libeskind
• Stadion Chemnitz 2002 - Peter Kulka/Ulrich Knigs

n o w   s h o w i n g

• X - Cité ;

  v a c a n t   s p a c e -
        mini E-board for your latest & greatest - display your projects here:

  
  

• Alvar Aalto Centenary, Finland

  
  

• NuGen ecosys
  
• softcell-arc inc.

• travel guide -- more itenaries
• for more t r i p s, visit also form follows

t a k i n g - o f f   p r o j e c t s   n o t e d
-- currently under construction/recently completed

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

• The Kingdom Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- Ellerbe Becket/Richard Varda and Omrania Associates
    984-ft-tall, 3.3 mil sf, $427 mil
• John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington DC -- Leo A Daly Associates/Richard Clarke
    $32 mil
  ~to open 2000.
• SBC Warburg Corporate Complex, Stamford CT 1996 -- Skidmore Owings Merrill
    $145 mil
• The Mori Shanghai, Pudong, Shanghai China 1994-2001 -- Kohn Pedersen Fox
    310,000 m2, 95-story, 1,509-ft-tall
• Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia -- Kisho Kurakawa
• Velodrome & Swimming Pool, Berlin 1992-1997/98 -- Dominique Perrault
   
  
• Gajah Tunggal Office Complex, Jakarta 1992 -- Pei Partnership (Chien Chung Pei and Li Chung Pei)

  
  

• m o r e   t a k e - o f f s

i n a u g r a l   s p i n s

after the fact / better late than ... / better built than ... / better be dog than ...
opening ceremonies / company press releases

• Altera Corporate Headquarters, San Jose -- RMW (o. 3-Nov97)
    500,000 sf, 2000 employees
• Fore Systems Worldwide Headquarters Campus, Warrendale, Marshall Township (25 miles north of Pittsburgh) PA 1994 -1997 -- Studios Architecture (o. 7-Oct97)
    300,000 sf, $40 mil, 1,100 employees
• New Delphi World Headquarters and Customer Center, Troy MI - William Kessler
    264,000 sf
   
  
• IBM Corporate Headquarters, Armonk NJ - Kohn Pedersen Fox
    $75 mil. 280,000 sf, 600 person (opened 18-Sep97)

gutless wonder / ... never / ... cancelled / ... be scrutinized
/ -- what ? ... criticism ... ?

1. Kansai Air Terminal, Osaka Bay, Japan 1988-1984 -- Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Nikken Sekkei
     1,300-acre man-made island, 3.2 mil sf space
     $14 billion total cost, $4 billion building cost
   ~opened 7-Sep84

   (also ran: Cesar Pelli, Bernard Tschumi, Pei Cobb Freed, Ricardo Bofill, Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Hellmuth Obata Kassabaum, OM Ungers)

   
   

2. Tokyo Forum, Japan 1989-1996 -- Rafael Vinoly
    145,000 m2, $1.5 billion

• more   p l u m   j o b s

D u s t   J a c k e t
G R E A T   E x p e c t a t i o n   ( G a m e )

• Commerzbank Headquarters, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1997 -- Sir Norman Foster and Partners

g o n e ________________
s t e a l t h ____________
c o n s p i c u o u s l y   m i s s i n g

• progress report / status info ( ? )___

i.E. famous w o r k i n g d r a w i n g s

• Ludwig Erhard Building, Berlin 1991-1995 -- Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners
• Kursaal Cultural Center and Auditorium, San Sebastian, Spain -- Rafael Moneo

• progress report / status info ( ? )___

• more famous working drawings

  
  

• undetected others:   l o w and or s l o w ?
  high-profile low-visibility works under construction - Any tips anyone ?
• Le Fresnoy National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France 1992 - Bernard Tschumi

(*****)   B - E - l - o - v - e - d : ( & Over - Exposed )
m o b . j o b s   under construction / recently completed
----   a r c h ' l - p a p s   a t   w o r k

 

• The conversion of the Reichstag, Berlin -- Sir Norman Foster and Partners
    ~ to be completed Dec98

   
  

• Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (cons. 1992-1997) -- Cesar Pelli
  88-story, 1,480-foot twin tower, 2.57 mil sf office space, $477.5 mil; 1,491 feet to the tips, 241-foot decorative spires, connected at the hip by a 193-ft "skybridge" on the 41st and 42nd floors

m o r e   C E L E B - A R C   &   other   d . A r c h
home of Elitism in the Arts, the dumbing down of the masses . . . etc.

• "Villa Amore," Sagaponack NY, 1966 - Agrest and Gandelsonas

• celebrity digest
• other cybermogul trophy homes

r e a l   e_s t a t e
i n   a l t e r e d   s t a t e s

(*****) back in the news

• Housing Urban Development -- Marcel Breuer
  
   
  
• Boston City Hall, Boston 1963 -- Kallmann McKinnell & Wood  
  
• Overseas Passenger Terminal, Sydney -- Lawrence Nield /Peter Tonkin
   
  
• Olympiastadion, Berlin -- Albert Speer 19xx (reappeared1998)
   
  
• Pentagon, Washington DC 1942; renovation 1993-2007 -- Army Corps Pentagon Renovation
  6.5 mil sf; $83 mil ($815 mil in 1997 dollars); 25,000 workers; 583-acre site; 8,770 parking spaces; 7,754 windows; $1.1 bil makeover.
   
  
• World Trade Center, New York - Minoru Yamasaki

   
  

• Renaissance Center, Detroit -- John Portman (reappeared1997, 1998)
    $500 mil renovation
    5 mil sf; 2.2 mil sf of office space; 350,000 sf of retail; 73-floor Westin hotel with 1,400 rooms
    GM is moving 9,000 workers into Renaissance Center

• Pompidou Center, Paris - Renzo Piano (reappeared 1997)

• IBM Headquarters, Armonk NY 1964 -- SOM (Gordon Bunshaft); lobby/atrium -- I M Pei (reappeared1997)

• more   a l t e r e d   s t a t e s

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

"One can imagine Johnson running for president but never Charles Moore, Bruce Goff, Michael Graves or Robert Venturi ... He has the acceptable public image; they, more serious and creative architects ... are too easily identifiable with one subculture or another." (Jencks C, "Epigrams on Philip Cortelyou Johnson," ad_Aug/Sep79)

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