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[Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris]   *** more

• Comite pour le Geste Architectural
  " ... six law suits were brought in to stop construction ... -- including to the fact that the chairman of the jury, Jean Prouve, did not have an architectural degree." (Piano R 1997, "LogBook")

• super
  "...'It will be a cultural supermarket, won't it ?' a journalist asked Rogers.
  'I have no objection to "supermarket," my objection is to the word "cultural,"' he replied."
  (Nathan Silver 19xx, "The Making of Beaubourg.")

• blatant provocation
  "An act of loutish bravado." (Renzo Piano in Peter Buchanan 1993, "Renzo Piano Buiding Workshop 1")

   
  

• long commitment
  "The over-scaled tectonics and blaring white tubes of the Centre Pompidou were confronted with outrage at first ... Mr. Piano once told Peter Buchanan, the author of a four-volume collected works on the architect, that he considered the building 'an act of loutish bravado.' ... It triggered a turning point, leading Mr. Piano back to Italy, where he operated for years outside the main currents of contemporary architecture." (Julie V Iovine, nyt_00.10.13)

   
  

• gerberettes
  the stiffening cantilevers named in honor of its inventor, a 19th century German bridge engineer called Gerber.

• more contested
  

i n   c o n t e s t

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

l o s t   &   f o u n d

[The New Tate, Bankside; Tate Modern (May 2000)]

• fund-raising triumph
  "... biggest modern art gallery in the world, ... and tonight it will be the venue for a party for 4,000 ... invitations were changing hands for $1,500" (Paul Levy, wsj_00.05.11)

• smiley-face
  "It doesn't smile and it's not new, but a soiled old pile like Tracey Emin's dirty laundry heaped to the height of a cathedral." (Rowan Moore, les_99.11.30)

• lures people
  "The officials learned that converted industrial buildings or galleries in the Beaux-Arts style were preferred by artists over new buildings because they felt their work looked best in them." (Carol Vogel, nyt_98.12.02)

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n o w   s h o w i n g

• X - Cité ;

  v a c a n t  s p a c e -
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• NuGen ecosys
  
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• m o r e - t r i p s, the frivolous and inconsequential

t a k i n g - o f f  -- (unremarkable)
n o t e d   p r o j e c t s

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

[The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong]

• pot luck
  "The pots of 'lucky bamboo' on the walkways were placed there temporarily at the recommendation of feng-shui (environmental diviner) consultants to protect people from the bad luck represented by the cross bracing." (pa_Mar86)

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 s

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c o n s p i c u o u s l y   m i s s i n g

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

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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 tips anyone ?

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