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• Sothebys, Upper East Side of Manhattan -- Kohn Pedersen Fox
    450,000 gsf headquarters, six-story addition
    to be completed in the year 2000

• tip anyone ( ? )____

• more blips -- frozen blips

 
• Library and Media Center, Cal State Channel Islands, Ventura County -- Norman Foster
   
• De Young Museum, San Fransico -- Herzog de Meuron

• more -- new Arrivals

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

• The National Grand Theater, Beijing, China -- Paul Andreu
    $361 mil, 2500-seat opera house, 2000-seat concert hall

  [wsj_00.09.06]   April 1, 2000 groundbreaking ceremony was cancelled.   June 2000 109 architects and 49 scientists submitted petitions to President Jiang Zemin opposing the theater design
   
  []   construction scheduled to start in March 2000
    set to open by 2003
    $360 million

  also by Paul Andreu:

   

• South Arm, Clarence, Tasmania -- Ken Latona
    36ha property, to include a family home, accommodation for 20 guests, two helipads and associated buildings

  also by Ken Latona:

• more -- contested projects

 
i n   c o n t e s t

 


• Fan Pier, South Boston Seaport District, 2000 -- Pritzker Plan: Nicholas J Pritzker, Ken Greenberg, Michael van Valkenbergh; McCourt Plan: Frank McCourt
  $1.2 billion, 3.1 million sf
  

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

 
d e p a r t u r e   L o u n g e

 

• Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC -- Frank O Gehry

• more

l o s t   &   f o u n d
p r e m a t u r e   l a n d i n g

• more

 
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

• more

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 ;

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        mini E-board for your latest & greatest - display your projects here:

  
  

• NuGen ecosys
  
• softcell-arc inc.

• m o r e

  
  

 

• Branch Library, Allston, Boston -- Machado & Silvetti
    20,000-square-foot

• Library Wing, Cleary Square, Hyde Park, Boston -- Schwartz/Silver

• Stealth Building, SPARCity, Culver City, Calif -- Eric Owen Moss; Frederick and Laurie Smith, clients.
• The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY -- Antoine Predock
• The Student Arts Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore -- Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
• Tramway Station and Car Park, Strasbourg, France -- Zaha Hadid

  
  
  

• travel guide -- more itenaries
• for more t r i p s, visit also form follows

l a s t   l a p  -- (un-?-er-markable)
n o t e d   p r o j e c t s
currently under construction/recently completed

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

• Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas --
    43-story

   
  

• Union Square, West 14th Street between Broadway and Fourth Avenue, New York 1999 -- Davis Brody Bond
    475,000 sf
    21-story residential tower rises above five-story commercial base
• Staples Center --
• CityWalk, Los Angeles -- John Jerde

  
  

• m o r e   t a k e - o f f s

i n a u g r a l   s p i n s

after the fact / better late than ... / better built than ... / better be dawg than ...
opening ceremonies / company press releases

gutless wonder / ... never / ... cancelled / ... be scrutinized
/ -- what ? ... criticism ... ?

• more   p l u m   j o b s

D u s t   J a c k e t
&   ( E x p e c t a t i o n G a m e )

• Berlin
   
  • Parliamentary District, Spreebogen, Berlin 1992 -- Axel Schultes
    • Chancellery, Berlin -- Axel Schultes
  • Brandeburg Gate, Berlin
    • Reichstag conversion -- Norman Foster
    • German Holocaust Memorial, (Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe) -- Peter Eisenman
  • Friedrichstrasse, Berlin
    • Henry Cobb, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
    • Jean Nouvel
    • Oswald Matthias Ungers
    • David Childs, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
  • Sector Daimler-Benz (DaimlerChrysler), Potsdamer Platz, Berlin -- Renzo Piano, Christoph Kohlbecker
        $7 billion
        a gambling casino, a 3,500-seat movie theater, apartment buildings, a Grand Hyatt Hotel, some 30 restaurants, and more than 100 stores, shops, and boutiques
    • Renzo Piano, Christoph Kohlbecker (8)
    • Richard Rogers (3)
    • Jose Rafael Moneo  
    • Volksbank Building, Berlin -- Arata Isozaki
  • Sector Sony, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin --
    • Sony Corp, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin -- Helmut Jahn
    • A+T Corp -- Giorgio Grassi
  • Pariserplatz, Berlin
    • The Adlon, Unter den Linden, Berlin  
      
    • DG Bank, Berlin - Frank Gehry
  • Sector Alexander Platz, Berlin
  • Palace of the Republic, Schlossplatz
  • Gendarmenmarkt

g o n e ________________
s t e a l t h ____________
c o n s p i c u o u s l y   m i s s i n g

• Staten Island Ferry Terminal - Peter Eisenman
• progress report / status info ( ? )___

i.E. famous w o r k i n g d r a w i n g s

• progress report / status info ( ? )___

• more famous working drawings

  
  

(*****)   B - E - l - o - v - e - d : ( & Over - Exposed )
m o b . j o b s   under construction / recently completed
----   a r c h ' l - p a p s   a t   w o r k

m o r e   C E L E B - A R C   &   other   d . A r c h
home of Elitism in the Arts, the dumbing down of the masses . . . etc.

r e a l   e_s t a t e
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(*****) back in the news

• Hotel Sphinx -- OMA/Rem Koolhas     *** book + Astor Place
   
• Washington Monument Scaffold, Washington DC 1998 -- Michael Graves
   
• Renaissance Park (formerly known as Ruggles Center, opened 1994, from which the Registry of Motor Vehicles fled in 1995), Tremont Street, Roxburry, now part of Northeastern University 2000
    157,570 square feet
    The award was made by BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) in the category of office buildings of 100,000 to 200,000 square feet.
   
  
• Celebrity Houses
  • Private Houses -- John Johansen
  • Private Houses -- Hugh Newell Jacobsen
  • Private Houses, East Hampton -- Gordon Bunshaft
      new owner: Martha Stewart, $3.2 million
  • Pinwheel House, Water Mill NY -- Peter Blake

• more   a l t e r e d   s t a t e s

(*****) much discussed projects in general press

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