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• Carnegie Science Center Expansion, Pittsburgh competition
  -- $90 mil; 160,000sf, nearly double the size of the present 200,000sf
  -- the current Science Center opened 1991 at a cost of $40 mil

  will submit concepts by mid-November; to be chosen by early January
  construction work to begin in 2002

  • Ben van Berkel, 43
  • Peter Eisenman, 68
  • Daniel Libeskind, 54
  • Jean Nouvel, 55
  • Bernard Tschumi, 56

• more   in con-test
• in con-test : see also recent exhibitions

• The New York Times Headquarters, Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, Manhattan, New York City -- Renzo Piano with Fox & Fowle
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    600 to 700 feet tall, or around 45 stories, 1.37 million square feet
    construction is scheduled to begin in 2001
    the building will be occupied by 2004
  

  
   

• Museum of Modern Art Temporary Museum, Long Island City, Queens -- winner: Michael Maltzen, Los Angeles

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  • Hani Rashid, Lise Anne Couture, of Studio Assymptote, New York
  • Winka Dubbeldam of Architectonics, New York
  • Preston Scott Cohen, Cambridge, Mass

• more

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• "New Opera House in Oslo," Norway -- Vinnerutkastet/Winning entry; Prize NOK 2,000,000: Snohetta AS: Craig Dykers, Christoph Kapeller, Kjetil Traedal Thorsen

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  Premierte utkast/Prize winning designs; Prize NOK 500,000:

  • Fogh & Folner Arkitektfirma ApS: Dan Cornelius Knudsen, Eva Holm-Jorgensen, Morten Orsager, Stig Andersen, Poul Madsen, Ingeborg Lindheim, Birgitte Pondoppidan
  • Stein Halvorsen sivilarkitekt MNAL: Magnus Rynning-Tonnesen, Lise-MArie Evertsen, Harald J Brekke, Erland Blakstad
  • Arkitektfirma Boje Lungaard & Lene Tranberg ApS: Boje Lundgaard, Lene Tranberg
  • Knut Fladeland Nielsen Ark, MAA: Henrik Gurskov, Johanne Louise Rosenquist, Jakob Kurek

   
  

• Christchurch Art Gallery, Cantebury, New Zealand -- The Buchan Group
    $37 mil
    {also ran: ...}   *** hEadlines

• previous winners

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
/ recently completed

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• "... to win a total of 11 building projects through architectural competitions, [Dominique] Perrault's office has produced an average of one new design project every two months over a period of 10 years." (Ellis C, aj_5Aug92)
   
  
• "Frank Gehry's CV runs to 56 pages. That's ten pages more than Peter Hall's, and his is ten pages longer than fishface's and so on. 30-page CV's are the way to go." (Peter Cook, hoping to sign up a galaxy of stars to come to the Barlett ... He only wants people with big CVs ---- in Martin Pawley talks to Peter Cook, "Making paper architecture concrete," blp88_Jun92 )

• "When one considers that he [Le Corbusier] produced some fifty books and about fifty-seven finished buildings, one understands the singular nature of his contributions ..." (Jencks C 1973, "LC and the Tragic View ...")

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