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- Grollo Tower, Melbourne - Denton Corker Marshall
113-floor (ct_98.12.01)
120-storey, 560m, twice as high as Melbourne's tallest building, the Rialto
1,700-foot tall, 300 feet higher than Chicago's Sears Tower
320 six-star hotel rooms, 450 apartments, 60,000 m2 office space
$1 billion (ct_98.12.01); $1.5 billion (age_98.12.08)
Bruno Grollo, developer
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- City Square, Melbourne
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- Adelphi Hotel, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
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- "the international gateway of red sticks and yellow cantilevered beam at the city end of the Tullamarine Freeway," , Melbourne
- "the steel sound tube at the western approach to City Link, also near the city end of the Tullamarine Freeway," Melbourne
- "improvements to the new Yarra Bridge - red wedges, silver aerofoil planar edges and two 130metre tall silver marker posts," Melbourne
- Governors Phillip, Sydney
- Macquarie Towers, Sydney
- "two hotels with French architect Philippe Starck," London
- "$400million development in central Warsaw that includes an exhibition and trade centre, a hotel, apartments, two office towers, a hypermart and a retail centre," Poland
- two banks, a twin tower office complex, apartments, multiplex cinema, Poland
- offices, Kiev
- retail/office complex, St Petersburg
- "the preservation and enhancement of the Sydney Opera House," Sydney
- offices in London, Warsaw, Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, Sydney
- "DCM employs more than 200 people"
- The Tower of Peace, Jabalpur, India -- Minoru Yamasaki Associates
2,222-foot skyscraper
729 feet taller than Malaysia's Petronas Towers, the world's tallest building
772 feet taller than the Sears Tower
"Minoru Yamasaki Associates also designed the world's fourth-tallest buildings, the 1,368-foot World Trade Center towers in New York"
- Prudential Towers, Times Square, New York -- Philip Johnson
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- Rome Auditorium -- Renzo Piano
to be competed 1999
- Philip-Johnson-Haus, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin -- Philip Johnson
one of five-building 'American Business Center'
- Educatorium, Utrecht -- Rem Koolhaas/ OMA
- The Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH -- Frank O Gehry
$33 mil, 143,000 sf
$40 mil; $32 mil has been raised; Peter Lewis of Progressive Corp committed $24 mil (wsj_98.08.19)
ground breaking Spring 99
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- Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland 1998 -- Steven Holl
130,000 sf; $41 mil
{also ran: Coop Himmelblau of Vienna, Kazuo Shinohara of Tokyo, Alvaro Siza of Porto; plus 516 competition entries, Sep92}
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- UFA Cinema Center, Dresden, Germany 1998 -- Coop Himmeb(l)au
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