(*****) The New York Post : "10 Buildings We Love To Hate"
(-- The List of Philip Nobel, architect and contributing editor at Metropolis magazine. Adam Tihany, an architect best known for his designs of the restaurants Jean Georges, Artos and Palladin. Seth Kamil, president of Big Onion tours and a ubiquitous presence on the streets of this town. Peter Elliot, Bloomberg Radio restaurant critic and a longtime architecture critic. Carol Willis, director of the Skyscraper Museum in lower Manhattan. )

1. The Lipstick Building, 885 Third Ave at 53rd Street, New York 1986 -- Philip Johnson
2. One Union Square South, New York 1999 -- Davis Brody Bond
3. The Corinthian Apartments, 330 E. 38th St, near First Avenue, New York 1987 -- Der Scutt
4. The MetLife (Pan Am) Building, 200 Park Ave at 43rd Street, New York 1963 --
5. Equitable Building, 787 Seventh Ave., at West 51st Street, New York 1986 --
6. New York Coliseum,10 Columbus Circle, New York 1956 --
7. Jacob K Javits Federal Office Building, 26 Federal Plaza, New York 1967 --
8. The Soho Grand Hotel, 310 West Broadway, New York 1996 --
9. ASCAP Building, One Lincoln Plaza, New York 1971 -- Philip Birnbaum
10. I S 131, 100 Hester St., New York 1983 --

 
(*****) The New York Post : "Apple of Our Eyes"
(-- The List of Peter Elliot, a lay architecture critic and radio host; Philip Nobel, contributing editor of Metropolis magazine; Seth Kamil, Big Onion walking tour leader; )

1. World Trade Center, New York, 1972
2. McGraw-Hill Building, 330 W 42nd St (over the Port Authority Bus Terminal), 1931
3. Civic Center Synagogue building at 49 White St, TriBeCa/ SoHo1967
4. TWA Terminal, Kennedy Airport 1978 -- Eero Saarinen
5. Park Slope, Brooklyn
6. Sniffen Court, between Lexington and Third avenues off East 36th Street, Manhattan (a block-long strip of 10 carriage houses)
7. Prospect Park West
8. 15 Park Row, 1899

 
(*****) The New York City Chapter of the AIA : "Five Gems Of The City"
(-- In 1997, the New York City Chapter of the American Institute of Architects asked 4,000 architects and New Yorkers to name their favorite buildings)

1. The Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Ave at East 42nd Street, 1930
2. Rockefeller Center, Fifth to Sixth Avenues, West 48th to 50th streets, 1940
3. Grand Central Terminal, East 42nd Street at Park Avenue, 1913
4. The Flatiron Building, 175 Fifth Ave. at East 23rd Street, 1902
5. The Seagram Building, 375 Park Ave. at East 53rd Street, 1958

 
(*****) The New York Post Readers : "five most hated"
(-- List of Post readers for the city's ugliest building)

1. Trump Tower
   "Other Trump buildings"
   • redesigned Gulf and Western Building on Columbus Circle
2. Madison Square Garden / Penn Station
3. United Nations
4. AT&T Building (now Sony Corp), Madison Avenue between 55th and 56th streets -- Philip Johnson
5. Yankee Stadium

(*****) m o r e

• The Architectural Review -- "Emerging Architecture Award"
• The Sunday Times -- "The Cool 100"
• The New York Times : -- "1999 The Year in Review"
• Washington Post : -- "Turning Points Of A Century"
• Times Magazine : -- "The Best (And Worst) of 1999"
• "Royal Institute of British Architects -- Stirling Prize 1999"
• The Los Angeles Times -- "Outlook for '99"
• The New York Times -- "Year In Review (Herbert's List)"
• The Los Angeles Times -- "Year In Review (Nicolai's List)"
• "Montreal's 17th Annual Orange and Lemon Prizes"
• "Significant Properties '98"
• "Critic's Choice -- The New Season / Architecture"
• "(Millennium) Five Most Significant Buildings"
• -- etc etc

Most etc.

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North Shore Park, Pittsburgh Riverfront
"The Riverlife Task Force hopes to complete its design recommendations in 18 to 24 months. It is looking at development in an area bounded by the West End Bridge, Liberty Bridge and 16th Street Bridge." (Tom Barnes, ppg_00.01.21)

• short list
  
  • Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Pittsburgh
    • Software Engineering Institute, Oakland, Pittsburgh, for Carnegie Mellon University
    • Mount Washington's Grandview Avenue, Pittsburgh
    • Bill Gates House, Medina, Seattle
  • Cooper, Robertson & Partners, New York
    • Master plan for development of the Nine Mile Run area between Squirrel Hill and Swisshelm Park, Pittsburgh
  • Chan Krieger & Associates, Cambridge, Mass
    • The Old Port, Montreal
    • Highway projects in Cincinnati, Augusta, Maine, and Des Moines, Iowa
    • Plan for development along Washington Road in Mt. Lebanon, Pittsburgh
  • Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Philadelphia
    • Student Center, Harvard University
    • Student Center, the University of Delaware
    • Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania
    • Museum, San Diego
    • Museum, Seattle
  • Wallace Roberts & Todd, Philadelphia
    • Baltimore's Inner Harbor
    • Waterfront projects in Norfolk, Va., Louisville, Ky., Indianapolis, Richmond, Va., Honolulu and Dallas.
    (Tom Barnes, ppg_00.01.21)
  
   
  
• Paul's List
  -- "The request for qualifications was sent to more than 50 firms selected with input from Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker magazine." (Patricia Lowry, ppg_00.01.14)
  • Bernard Tschumi Architects of New York
  • Antoine Predock of Albuquerque, NM
  • Sasaki Associates of Watertown, Mass
  • Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's San Francisco office
  • Environmental Planning & Design of Pittsburgh
  • Cooper, Robertson & Partners of New York
  • Tigerman McCurry Architects of Chicago
  • Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates of Philadelphia

    Also responding were:

  • Bohlin Cywinski Jackson of Pittsburgh
  • Burt Hill Kosar Rittlemann of Pittsburgh and Jean-Paul Viguier of Paris, France
  • Chan Krieger & Associates of Cambridge, Mass
  • David M Schwartz/Architectural Services Inc of Washington DC
  • Edward D Stone Jr and Associates of Fort Lauderdale, Fla
  • Karen Brean Associates of Pittsburgh
  • Roma Design Group of San Francisco
  • Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects of New York
  • Thompson and Rose Architects of Cambridge, Mass
  • Wallace Roberts & Todd of Philadelphia
  • William McDonough and Ove Arup Partnership of Charlottesville, Va

  
  

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