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new commissions  for mass media consumptions

[The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles]

• alabaster
  "We've got a Moneo, we've got a Gehry, we've got a Meier, we've got an I.M. Pei. This will turn us into the capital city of the 21st century," (Mayor Richard Riordan, in Louinn Lota, sac_99.12.12)

• certifiably Catholic
  "It reminds me of 1960s and '70s office buildings. The cathedral fits into those banal-design style of buildings. ... It could be mistaken for a courthouse," (Duncan Stroik, a church architecture consultant and professor at the University of Notre Dame, editor of the journal Sacred Architecture, in Louinn Lota, sac_99.12.12)     *** intelligent people

 
[MCA/Universal City, Los Angeles]

• grandfathered
  "Why choose Koolhaas? 'I think it's because of his grandfather,'" says Koolhaas of Edgar Bronfman Jr., grandson of the man who asked Mies van der Rohe to build New York City's first modernist tower, the Seagram Building. (Luscombe B, tm_96.08.04)
  

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

[Guinness Riverside, London]

• step over
  "Norman Foster Partnership has bagged a controversial commission to develop a London riverside site but has been warned not to 'shit on the doorstep' of the local people." (aj_97.09.03)

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[Washington WW-II Memorial, Washington DC]

• pool & reflection
  "So do we really need or want a [$100 mil.] World War II memorial?" - ... 'elegant' ... 'an unhappy echo of Third Reich bombast' ..." (Editorial, nyt_97.07.04)

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[V&A Museum Extension, London]   *** hEadlines

• death-by-anaemia
  "... when it comes to ego, neither Libeskind nor the Guggenheim's Frank Gehry are exactly Uriah Heeps. ... An egomaniac would be content with making a big noise; an artist looks for God in the detail."

• provincial comfort
  "How can this happen? We all know the rules. British architecture cannot be founded in ideas and concepts. It must be pragmatic, professional, but never intellectual." (David Chipperfield, blp130_Jul/Aug96)
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• barbaric purification
  The design is "... an insult to everything the museum stands for. ... its construction would be a disaster for the Victoria and Albert Museum in particular and for civilization in general. ... It is the tearing down of the old culture of scholarship, truth, beauty, reason and order. ... Sartre, Mao and Libeskind stand for the belief that a great new epuration through barbarism is the only way to the brave new world" (William Rees-Mogg, former editor of the Times of London, tl/nyt_96.03.07)
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• overbearing
  "... the jury process is grounded in the belief that informed opinions of art are more likely than uninformed opinions to distinguish good from bad. It may not always work out that way -- look at last year's overbearing winning design to expand the Victoria and Albert Museum in London." (Muschamp H, nyt_97.01.19)

• car wash
  "... 'Architecture about washing machines and cars is temporary diversion,' he says with a swipe at much current practice." (Daniel Libeskind in Ryan R, blp_Jul/Aug96)

• more contested
  

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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

[Mercedes-Benz of North America HQ, Montvale NJ]

• corporate press-release
  "... contemporary ... cost-effective ... convey an image commensurate with the dynamic brand and quality products ... a timeless character ... a 'fun-to-work' environment for the employees ... spacious ... engaging ... flexible ... humanistic ... modern ... carefully detailed ... low-key ... restrained ..." (MBNA/prn_97.12.24)

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[MoMA Expansion - New York]

• drop-dead deceptive
  "Photographs and even the museum's large-scale model fail to do his design justice." (Muschamp H, "The Modern Picks Taniguchi's Expansion Plan," nyt_97.12.09)

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• long trust
  "Now, the 'long shot' of the MoMA sweeptakes [Yoshio Tanaguchi] has made the final cut and may be exactly what the trustees want." (Ryan R, "Remaking MoMA," blp_Jun97)

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• rising age
  "The winner was a shocker: Yoshio Tanaguchi, a 61-year-old Tokyo-based Modernist who has never built outside of his native Japan. MOMA had been determined to find a fresh face: ... it wanted to uncover a younger generation of architects. ... Arduous search, no risks, solid design." (Ouroussoff N, "It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This," lat_97.12.21)

  
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[UT-Houston]

• UT-Houston competition was solely for architectural design. (Separate RFQ for local architectural production firm etc.) Each team received $20,000 honorarium with an additional $2,500 travel expenses.

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

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

n o w   s h o w i n g

• X - Cité ;

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[The Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille]

• deplored
  "the continued dominance ... of bland, life-less photography of buildings." (blp_Oct97)
  ("The covers of the September editions of Architectural Review and France's Architecture Interieure Cree and Le Moniteur all featured the same view of the building.")

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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)

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  high-profile low-visibility works under construction - ANY tips anyone ?

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