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[Street Furniture, Sydney -- Cox Richardson]
$20 million public toilets, flower stalls, bus shelters, seating and fruit barrows
  • littered with trash
    "A spokesman for the Lord Mayor, Cr Frank Sartor, conceded the surplus sites had been chosen so the telephones could be moved should anyone object."





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smh_98.06.18

 
[Droga Apartment, Foster Street, Surry Hills, Sydney -- Neil Durbach, Camilla Block]
  • glib contextualism
    "The institute's national president, Mr Graham Humphries, said architecture in Australia was more than holding its own despite the international gloom and doom, and these awards -- alternating almost exclusively between Sydney and Melbourne -- suggest the emergence of a swag of names new to the national awards." (O'Brien G, smh_98.10.03)

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[Arundel Mills Mall, I-95, Anne Arundel County]

  • shoppertainment
    "The aim of the proposed Arundel Mills Mall, the Post's Peter S Goodman and Scott Wilson wrote, will be to 'feed off of and stimulate development in the growing region.'

    ... For many retail store owners, we're talking 'Deep Impact' here, if not 'Armageddon' for some." (Lewis RK, wp_98.08.22)

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[Euram Building, Dupont Circle, Washington DC 1971 -- Hartman-Cox]

  • office plants
    "Many employees say sunlight is a boon to their disposition -- and to office plants. But they concede that the wealth of solar energy can cause problems." (Hopkinson N, wsj_98.07.22)


 
[Penn Center, Philadelphia]

  • zero comment
    "Penn Center was not a critical success. Louis Kahn, whose design for the area had been rejected, commented that if the plan had been submitted by a first year architecture student, the grade would be zero." (Muschamp H, nyt_98.06.17)

  • scenicruiser
    "All true, no doubt, but it was great nonetheless to have such a fine group of modern lobbies. People passing through lobbies like these must certainly be on their way to doing modern things. I guessed they must be doing advertising, this being the most modern occupation I could imagine." (Muschamp H, nyt_98.06.17)
 
[Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh]
  • newstands and other standbys
    "It is not easy to squeeze into a dressing room with two pieces of carry-on luggage and a laptop to try on a pair of jeans. And the sight of three airline captains hovering over a table of pink lingerie at Victoria's Secret still draws a second glance.

    But such scenes are quietly becoming as integral to air travel as jet lag, weather delays and nondairy creamer." (Steinhauser J, nyt_98.06.10)

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[New England Holocaust Memorial, Boston]
  • false provincialism
    "The insult to the idea of the memorial needs no comment, but I wish to point Brown to ... I suggest he board the next flight for Disney World, where he can live out his fantasies on Main Street USA." (Gould E, bg_98.06.08)



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