on screens
new projects - on the drawing boards

b l i p s

• South Station, Boston 1998 -- Cesar Pelli/ Anthony J Markese
    a 500-room hotel, a 743-foot office building, second-tallest in the city
  -- (Federal Reserve and One Financial Center in Dewey Square, 600 feet)
  -- "An additional150-foot glass tower atop the building would bring the height to almost 900 feet." (bg_98.08.09)

• tip anyone ( ? )____

• more blips -- frozen blips

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

• The Canadian Opera House, Toronto -- AJ Diamond, Donald Schmitt and Co
    Queen St W and University Ave
    ~scheduled to open in 2001
  {also run: Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg, Lett/ Smith Architects; Moshe Safdie Associates Ltd, and Eb Zeidler Roberts Partnership}

   
  

• Time Warner Headquarters, Columbus Circle, New York -- SOM/ David Childs
    $1.6 billion
    2.1 million sf; a pair of 750-ft towers;
  - broadcast facilities for Cable News Network; 425-room Mandarin Oriental Hotel; 325 condominiums; 1000-seat jazz concert hall
    owner: Related Cos; Chief Executive Stephen M Ross
    *** competition

• more -- new Arrivals

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

• Jacksons Landing Development, Pyrmont, Sydney -- Moore Ruble Yudell et. al.
    $800 mil; 12-hectare   the old CSR site

   
  

• San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge --
    $1.346 billion

• more -- contested projects

i n   c o n t e s t

• Mesa Arts and Entertainment Center
    $55.5 million; ~construction to begin January 2000

   

• Scottish Parliament House, Holyrood, Scotland, UK
    ~ to be opened in May 1999
  {also ran: Enric Miralles/ RMJM, Richard Meier/ Keppie Design, Michael Wilford, Rafael Vinoly/ Reiach & Hall, Denton Corker Marshall/ Glass Murray}

• 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

• The Jewish Museum San Fransisco, Yerba Buena CA 1996 -- Peter Eisenman
• Museum of Civilization, Canberra, Australia -- Gregory Burgess
  

l o s t   &   f o u n d

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

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:

  
  

• NuGen ecosys
  
• softcell-arc inc.

• m o r e

  
  

 

• Corning Glass Center Remodelling and Expansion, Elmira, Corning -- Henry Smith-Miller & Laurie Hawkinson
  original building(s): The Glass Center, Elmira, Corning 1951 -- Harrison & Abramovitz;
  Glass Museum and Library, Corning 1972 -- Gunnar Birkerts
    ~ to open May98
   
  
• DreamWorks SKG Office, Glendale -- Gensler & Associates
   
  
• Oceans Pavilion Expo '98, Lisbon, Portugal -- Cambridge Seven/ Peter Chermayeff
    $70 mil;   ~ opened 22-May98
  

  
  
  

• 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 ...)

• 50 S 6th Street, Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis -- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill/ Peter Van Vechten
    $100 mil; 30,000 square feet of shops
    to start in summer 1999; to open in summer 2001
  developer: Hines Interests Limited Partnership (Grace Van Moer)
  

  
  

• 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

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

• 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 s )

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

• progress report / status info ( ? )___

  
  

• undetected others:   l o w and or s l o w ?
  high-profile low-visibility works under construction - Any tips anyone ?

(*****)   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

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.

• 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

• Inland Steel Building, Chicago 1957 -- Skidmore Owing Merrill/ Bruce Graham, Walter Netsch
    the first skyscraper with indoor, underground parking
    the first skyscraper clad in stainless steel
   
  
• John Hancock Center, Chicago -- Skidmore Owing Merrill
  100-story, Chicago's third tallest building
• more   a l t e r e d   s t a t e s

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

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