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[Miami Heat Basketball Arena, Miami]   *** hEadlines

• vice freak
  "Clients term Mr Fort-Brescia enormously energetic, willing to return calls any time. Built like the soccer player he once was, he is known as a 'control freak.' ...

  Still, control can slip at a company that grows too fast in boom times. ...
  Indeed, say Ron Pizzuti, a Columbus, Ohio, developer, 'anytime you're dealing with someone who's so much in demand, you have to be concerned they're taking more than they can handle.' ..." (Sandler L, wsj_98.07.22)

 
[363 George Street Tower, Sydney]   *** hEadlines

• unfettered
  "The foreign-designed towers are in Sydney's showpiece Macquarie Street: on the way to the Opera House ..." (Anne Susskind, smh_98.07.13)

   
  

• no partial services
  "They are those designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, British architect Sir Norman Foster, and by Richard Johnson and Jeff Walker of the Australian firm of Denton Corker Marshall." (Anne Susskind, smh_98.07.10)

• extra clever
  "We want to drag that character, which is quite civic, further down the street, to our development. ..." (Richard Johnson, in Anne Susskind, smh_98.07.10)

• tarted up
  "the stainless steel studs fixed to the granite and aluminium surfaces are 'spun', a finish that means they sparkle in sunlight." (Anne Susskind, smh_98.07.10)

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

*** ap_98.08.10 *** nyt_98.06.04 *** r_98.04.15 most recently: *** obs_04.12.19 *** dom_04.09.09 *** ap_00.01.18

[German Holocaust Memorial, Berlin]   dominant "Mr. Diepgen has argued that the memorial is too big and impossible to protect." (Roger Cohen, nyt/iht_00.01.18)   thousands of concrete stele "Whether such a huge, heavy-handed memorial should actually be built in central Berlin remains a legitimate question." (Benjamin Forgey, wp_00.01.09)   variety store "Friedman insisted a memorial was the more powerful form of remembrance. The government was proposing a 'variety store' that 'ultimately lacks content,' he said in a telephone interview." (ap_98.12.16)   grandiose-watch "Critics lambasted the model by architect Peter Eisenman and sculptor Richard Serra as gigantic and too abstract to convey the powerful symbolism behind the murder of 6 million European Jews. Michael Naumann, Schroeder's designated culture minister, has scorned the concept as a 'wreath dumping ground' whose grandiose scale recalls the projects of Hitler's favorite architect, Albert Speer. In its place, Naumann said he now envisions a memorial museum that would feature a garden for contemplation, a research library, an exhibition hall and a 'genocide-watch' institute that would alert the world to potential mass slaughters in regional flash points." (Drozdiak W, wp_98.12.15)   aesthetic "The Jewish community has expressed little enthusiasm about current plans for the monument, but leaders have said it is better for a mediocre design to be built than for Germany to back down from building it." (Berger D, jta_98.07.26)   publisher "Michael Naumann, a New York-based publisher, told a Berlin radio station that the memorial reminded him of the grandiose buildings of Adolf Hitler's favorite architect, Albert Speer, who created such gigantic tributes to German glory as the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. ... The head of Germany's Central Council of Jews, Ignatz Bubis, criticized Naumann's stance in yesterday's Tagesspiegel newspaper. 'If that is supposed to be the big vision of the culture man in the federal government, all I can say is: poor culture,' Bubis said." (Geitner P, ap/pi_98.07.22)   "a tempest in a teapot" "Lea Rosh, head of the nonprofit organization that has lobbied for a Holocaust museum since 1988, said Mr Serra's decision would not cause a problem." (Andrews EL, nyt_98.06.04)   grave "Of the four designs on the short list, Kohl favors one by New York-based architect Peter Eisenman and sculptor Richard Serra. They envisage creating a graveyard-like labyrinth of 4,000 concrete pillars up to 24 feet tall." (r_98.04.15)

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p r e m a t u r e   l a n d i n g

[Cardiff Bay Opera House, Cardiff]

• patron
  "I have to say my Cardiff experience was very patronizing as a woman. One of the reasons it collapsed is because I'm a woman. There is no question about that at all in my mind." (Zaha Hadid in Ouroussoff N, "Building Around Change," lat_97.12.30)

• sanguine
  "When the project was finally rejected, he [Lord Crickhowell] writes, he felt physically sick. Hadid was more sanguine: 'It's a bummer'" (Ryan R, mm_98.03?)

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[Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati]   *** hEadlines

• Bilbao effect
  "Demarais credits Bilbao with helping his center raise money for the building." (Charles Demarais, director of The Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati, in Cathleen McGuigan, nwk_00.01.01)

• fearsome jewel
  "Because of the unfeasibility of her schemes, the Iraqi-born, London-based architect has built a reputation as a visionary but has not built many real-world structures. Now computer modeling and a changing climate in art may allow her to finally realize several projects. ..." (Aaron Betsky, wired_ 98.11)

• urban edict
  "This commission was good news for architecture as well as for Ms. Hadid. If an edict were to be passed prohibiting Don DeLillo, Laurie Anderson and Spike Lee from writing, performing and making movies, outrage would be heard. ... She needs buildings to test and develop her ideas." (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_98.08.09)

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 ;

  v a c a n t  s p a c e -
   mini E-board for your latest & greatest - display your projects here.

  
  

 
[Signal Hill Golf Center]

• solid territory
  "Is it really architecture? Or simply good building? The answer is irrelevant ..." (Ouroussoff N, lat_98.05.17)

 
[Terminal One, Kennedy Airport]

• therapist
  "Architecturally, the building aspires to potency. It is packed with a breathtaking amount of thrust." (Muschamp H, nyt_98.05.15)

 
[Stade de France, Paris]

• grand-ratio
  "For a people that has long valued civic grandeur, it was a surprisingly reasonable choice.
  'The French are irrational; that's what's irritating,' said Pierre Parisot, the Frenchman who is president of the consortium that runs the Stade de France." (Clarey C, iht_98.04.14)

t a k i n g - o f f  -- (un-?-er-markable)
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currently under construction/recently completed

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

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arch after the fact / better late than ... / better built than ... / better bad than ...
opening ceremonies / company press releases

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• undetected others: f l y i n g   low and s l o w ?
  high-profile low-visibility works under construction - ANY tips anyone ?

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