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[The Canadian Opera House, Toronto]

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"I don't play an instrument but I was on the board of Music Toronto, the chamber music series, and for my bachelor degree thesis at the University of Capetown, my project was a design for a concert hall." (Jack Diamond in Stoffman J, ts_98.08.05)

[Time Warner Headquarters, Columbus Circle, New York -- SOM/ David Childs] *** competition

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"Tongues were wagging yesterday over the $1.6 billion question: Would it accelerate, delay or derail Columbus Centre, the gargantuan project planned for the Coliseum site in which Time Warner is to establish its world headquarters?" (Steve Cuozzo, nyp_00.01.12)
- July 29
  "Related Cos. is to pay the MTA $357 million to build a 2.5 million square foot twin-towered edifice ... have plunked down a $70 million deposit ... must close on the purchase this summer.
  Time Warner has a crucial role: It will occupy about a third of the building not as a tenant, but as the owner of its space. And it has committed what sources estimate at $110 million to the acquisition cost." (Steve Cuozzo, nyp_00.01.12)
- second act
  "... felt like the second act to a saga that began in 1985, when the city first planned to sell the Coliseum property to Mort Zuckerman's Boston Properties.
  Lawsuits over shadows the original tower plan would cast across Central Park led to lawsuits that bogged things down for nine years.
  By the time all the political and legal kinks were worked out -- and after the design changed twice -- Zuckerman backed out in 1994, when the city economy tanked." (Steve Cuozzo, nyp_00.01.12)
denial
"Skidmore, Owings, Merrill's design ... perfectly epitomizes the architecture of denial. Modeled after the Majestic and the Century, Irwin S Chanin's great apartment towers on Central Park West, this design represents an utter lack of awareness that New York today differs dramatically from the city in the 1930's ... Should this building rise in its present form, we will all hate ourselves for tolerating structures so flagrantly out of touch with the imagination we came here to exercise." (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_98.12.27)

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[Jacksons Landing Development, Pyrmont, Sydney]

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"Despite some of these unknown critics, ... ..." (Mr Greg Deas of Lend Lease, the project's planning and design manager, Susskind A, smh_98.08.10)

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[Mesa Arts and Entertainment Center]

profiles page
"Barton Myers Associates, a Los Angeles-based architectural firm, is the top finalist ... But Myers still has heavy competition from the other firms in the Top 5. Even selecting the finalists based on rough, 50-page company profiles was a challenge for the selection committee." (Griner D, tar_98.08.13)

bare cost
"Several firms barely made the submission deadline. The 23rd entry came in at 4:59 p.m., one minute before Wednesday's cutoff.
The committee rejected one late proposal that cost a design group $10,000 to print.

Proposals include a joint plan by New Yorker Peter Eisenman's architecture firm and HNTB Corp of Kansas City, Mo, the duo designing Mesa's proposed Rio Salado Crossing Multipurpose Facility." (Griner D, tar_98.07.31)

[Scottish Parliament House] &nbap; *** more

frankly
"That is why it is frankly scandalous that Benson & Forsyth, the architects of the new Museum of Scotland, are not on the short list. They are the only firm with the proven experience to do this." (MacMillan D, ts_98.06.22)

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"We have the feeling that this project could be a crucial step in our professional career." (Enric Miralles, on his ...)
"Meier has noted there is a clash at the foot of the Royal Mile ... This is crude." (Hugh Pearman on Richard Meier's)
"a big rotunda trailing the rest of the parliament buildings behind it like a stubby comet ... big, naive shape ... a great big cake tin, which might as well be the 'anchor store' in a shopping mall." (on Rafael Vinoly's)
"... I have no idea, from the material presented, what Wilford's building would look like viewed from the Holyrood direction." (on Michael Wilford's)
"... so far the sketchiest of all the contenders. Its jumble of leaning and interleaving forms ..." (on Denton Corker Marshall's)

augury

"As the days have passed, I have warmed to the Australians a little, as I have cooled to the Americans. ... But on my personal wish list it would still be Miralles first, Wilford second, Denton Corker Marshall third, Meier fourth, and Vinoly fifth." (Pearman H, ts_98.06.18)
"I confess I also find Miralles a satisfying antidote to the very wealthy and familiar architects from G7 nations who make up the rest of the shortlist. They have nothing to prove: he has a lot to prove." (Pearman H, ts_98.06.18)

fancied
"Our only suggestion to DCM ... is to employ a secret weapon in its bid. Although he is a bit of a reluctant Australian thesedays, Mel Gibson has the perfect credentials - local boy turned Scottish superhero - to spice up the final bid team a la Annita Keating at the Olympics. As Mel said in Braveheart, 'Freedom.' ..." (Fray P and Nicholas G, smh_98.04.09)

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[Oceans Pavilion Expo '98, Lisbon]

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"An aquarium is not an obvious place to start a revolution." (Simons M, nyt_98.05.25)

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