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• Telfair Museum of Art, Telfair Square (Barnard Street, York Street and Oglethorpe Avenue), Savannah -- Moshe Safdie
    45,000 sf; ground breaking 1999; completion 2000

• more -- new Arrivals

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• David L. Lawrence Convention Center Expansion, Pittsburgh
    $267 mil

   
  

• National Constitution Center, Philadelphia
    $130 million; ~to open in 2002
  -- ground will be broken on 17 Sep, 2000, exactly 213 years from the date that the Constitutional Convention gave final approval to the US Constitution.
  {also ran: IM Pei/ Pei Cobb Freed, Centerbrook/ Dan Peter Kopple & Associates, Polshek & Partners/ The Vitetta Group, Antoine Predock/ Agoos-Lovera Architects, Michael Graves/ URS Greiner, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates}

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• NuGen ecosys
  
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• British Library, St Pancras, London -- Colin St John Wilson
  $870-million; originally £116 million
  -- "the £511-million building which took 36 years to design and build, and was many millions of pounds over budget." (itn_98.06.25)
  -- "design work started 22 years ago ... dogged by delays, rising costs and technical problems and will not be fully operational until 1999." (nt/r_98.06.25)

   
  

• Princeton University Stadium -- Rafael Vinoly
  30,000-seat football-soccer-lacrosse stadium; part of $45 mil complex that includes track-and-field area
    ~to open Sep98 {also ran: IM Pei, HOK Sport Facilities}

  
  
  

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• The Peco Energy Co Power Plant, Delaware River, Chester 1916 -- John Windrim

   
  

• Toronto City Hall, Toronto 1965 --
  renovation 1998 -- Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg
    $5.2 mil
  
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