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[Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah ]
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"Much of the glass would be covered by a window pane-like pattern to be made of concrete or stone." (Kate Wiltrout, smn_99.12.24)
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[David L. Lawrence Convention Center Expansion, Pittsburgh]
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"Arquitectonica, Cesar Pelli, Rafael Vinoly, Pei Cobb Freed, Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Zimmer, Gunsul, Frasca." (prn_98.08.19)
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"Among the more prominent of those interested in the project: Mario Botta, Lugano, Switzerland ... Arquitectonica and Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum, respectively of Miami and St. Louis ... Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, New York ... Cesar Pelli & Associates Inc. of New Haven, Conn., and the Convention Center Design Group of Minneapolis ... Philip Johnson/ Alan Ritchie Architects of New York ... Murphy/Jahn Architects Inc., Chicago ... Michael Graves Architect of Princeton, NJ, and HNTB of Boston ... Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP of Chicago ... Eisenman Architects of New York, also partnered with HNTB ... Bohlin Cywinski Jackson of Pittsburgh, partnered with Wallace Roberts Todd of Philadelphia ...
Other firms that requested data were: Gensler, San Francisco; Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates, Atlanta; Holabird & Root, Chicago; Fentress Bradburn Architects LTD, Denver and Boston; LMN Architects, Seattle; Rafael Vinoly Architects, New York and Boston; Zimmer, Gunsul, Frasca Partnership, Portland, Ore; Arthur Erickson Architectural Corp, Vancouver, BC; Cannon Architects, New York; Antoine Predock, Albuquerque, N.M., and Boston; Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, Boston; Steven Holl Architects, New York and Boston; Zeidler Roberts Partnership, Toronto and Boston; VOA Associates, Chicago; and A.J. Lumsden & Associates - RTKL Associates Inc., Los Angeles." (Miller D, ppg_98.08.13)
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"In any arena, competition brings out the best and the brightest ... Competition is essential to the creation of a landmark structure ... The best of these architectural firms will create a signature building ... a first-day attraction ..." (Joseph Kane, Design Commission Chairman, in Barnes T, ppg_98.08.13)
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"The row over the new library centred on the amount of time and money that was spent on building it. Its designer, Prof Colin St John Wilson, who was knighted for his work, blamed criticism of the architecture on his decision to dissolve his design company last year." (Donnelly R, it_98.06.26)
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" ... this labour of love must have seemed at times to be endless" (Queen Elizabeth, itn_98.06.25)
[Princeton University Stadium]
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"In the last decade, with places like Denver's Coors Field, the sport stadium has emerged as America's most diseased building type, an expression of arrested development in the innocent guise of nostalgia." (Muschamp H, nyt_98.06.21)
- designer stadium
"... Mr Vinoly has the casual air of world traveler and intellectual. Three pair of glasses are in evidence ..." (Sandler L, wsj_98.06.17)
- design flair
"'it wouldn't be the first time that a client has picked someone who they thought could give them design flair,' a spokesman for HOK Sports Facilities says. ... Counters Mr Vinoly, 'Only a jerk would be proud of just being able to get people into and out a building." (Sandler L, wsj_98.06.17)
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