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on screens
new projects - on the drawing boards

b l i p s

• Electronic Arts UK Headquarters, near Heathrow - Sir Norman Foster and Partners
  £ 35 million, 10,000m2 three-story building; second phase 7500m2 of warehouses. {Lost: Richard Rogers Partnership, Sheppard Robson.}
• The Cross Bath spa complex (UK) - Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners
  £ 11 million restoration, conversion and new pool. {Lost: Feilden & Clegg, Ferguson Mann and Eva Jiricna, David Chipperfield.} (3.6.97)
• Britannic Tower, London - Santiago Calatrava
  Britannic House Redevelopment (Wates City, developer), to be the second highest building in the City of London, England. (04.03.97)
  
• Luxor Theater, Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam 1996 - Bolles and Wilson
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new commissions  for mass media consumptions

• The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles 1996 - Rafael Moneo
      $45 mil; construction is scheduled to begin in 1997 and be completed in 2000.
• Citibank Headquarters, Canary Wharf, Docklands, London 1996 - Foster and Partners
      50,000 m2 corporate front office, £300 mil
• MCA-Universal City, Los Angeles 1996 - Rem Koolhaas/OMA
      $3 billion expansion master plan, new offices, the company's headquarters redesign

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

• Holocaust Memorial, Judenplatz, Vienna Austria -- Rachel Whiteread
• Wandsworth --'Guinness'-- Riverside Development, London - Foster and Partners
    £175 mil, 290m river front
• London International Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) building, Spitalfields, London 1997 - Foster and Partners
    £50mil, 70,000m2
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• The World War II Memorial, Washington DC 1997 - Friedrich St. Florian/Hartman Cox
    $100mil
• The New York Stock Exchange expansion, New York NY
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• The National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall, Washington DC 1994 - Douglas Cardinal/ GBQC
    $110 mil
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• The Extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1996 -- Daniel Libeskind
    $63mil
    £75m
  competition unveiled May 1996; also ran:

• back to current -- contested projects

i n   c o n t e s t

• Mercedes-Benz of North America Corporate Headquarters, Pearl River NY -- Gensler (New York NY) in association with SNS Architects & Engineers (Montvale NJ); The Hillier Group (Princeton NJ); Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (New York NY); Lauber & Wohr Architects (Munich, Germany), Murphy/Jahn Inc. (Chicago IL).

• Toyota (GB) Headquarters, Surrey UK -- Aukett Associates, Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, Nicholas Hare Architects, Sheppard Robson
  12,744 m2 (Oct 97)

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• MoMA Expansion, New York, Jan97 -- Finalists: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (Switzerland), Yoshio Taniguchi (Japan), Bernard Tschumi (USA)
  First phasers: Wiel Arets (The Netherlands), Steven Holl (USA), Toyo Ito (Japan), Rem Koolhaas (The Netherlands), Dominique Perrault (France), Rafael Vinoly (USA), Tod Williams, Billie Tsien (USA).

• Coliseum Competition Redux, New York 1997; see recent exhibitions

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new commissions  for mass media consumptions

d e p a r t u r e   L o u n g e
p r e m a t u r e   l a n d i n g

l o s t   &   f o u n d

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• Mercedes-Benz of North America Corporate Headquarters, Montvale NJ 1997 -- Lauber & Wohr

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• The Museum of Modern Art Expansion, New York 1997 -- Yoshio Taniguchi

• National Archives Building, Quebec - Dan S Hanganu with Provencher Roy

• Imperial War Museum, Trafford, Manchester (Jul97) - Daniel Libeskind
  {also-ran: Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, Future Systems, Michael Wilford & Partners, Chris Wilkinson Associates}

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• Cinematheque - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (Jun97) - Kazuyo Sejima (Japan)
    $25 mil.
  {also-ran: Andrew Andersons/Peddle Thorp (Sydney), Edmund and Corrigan (Melbourne), Steven Holl (New York), Tod Williams (New York), Enric Miralles (Spain), Heikkinen-Komonen (Finland)}

• UT-Houston Health Science Center, Houston 1996 - Patkau Architects.
  {also-ran: Tod Williams/Billie Tsien, Steven Holl, Machado/Silvetti, Enrique Norton, Lake Flato}

• more recent 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

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 ;

  v a c a n t  s p a c e -
   mini E-board for your latest & greatest - display your projects here.

  
  

• NuGen ecosys
  
• softcell-arc inc.

• Amanjiwo Resort, Menorah Hills, Central Java - Edward Tuttle (Jul97)
• Arizona Science Center, Phoenix - Antoine Predock (Jul97?)
    $47 mil.
• The Palais des Beaux Arts revamp, Lille - Jean-Marc Ibos, Myrto Vitart
  "A couple of years late, and many millions of francs above budget, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille has finally opened." (ft_97.06.04)
• Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago - Fujikawa Johnson (18-Feb97)
  $182 mil; 90,500 sf 65ft high trading hall; expansion of the original Board of Trade Building (Holabird & Root 1930), and addition (Helmut Jahn 1980)
• The Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro - Oscar Niemeyer (Sep96)
    21,528 sq ft, $5.5 mil.

  
  
  

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• m o r e - t r i p s, the frivolous, exquisite

t a k i n g - o f f  -- (un-?-remarkable)
n o t e d   p r o j e c t s

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

• The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center ("the Federal Triangle"), Washington DC 1998 -- James Ingo Freed/ Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
    $738 mil, 3.1mil gsf; $818 mil (wsj_98.01.05); $816 million, "a mere $448 million more than Congress projected in 1987" (nyt_98.05.06)
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• National Airport, Washington DC - Cesar Pelli
    $400 mil
  ~opened 27-July, 1997
• Internal Revenue Service office building, New Carrollton, Washington DC -- Kohn Pedersen Fox
• Federal Bureau of Investigation field office, near Judiciary Square, Washington DC -- Skidmore Owings Merrill
• Cooke Stadium, near Washington DC -- Ellerbe Becket
• MCI Center, Washington DC -- KCF-SHG
• International Finance Corp Headquarters, Washington DC -- Michael Graves
• World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC -- Kohn Pedersen Fox
• International Terminal at Baltimore-Washington International Airport -- William Nicholas Bodouva
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, West Potomac Park, Washington DC -- Lawrence Halprin
• Women in Military Service Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC -- Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi

  
  
  

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• The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong - Norman Foster

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D u s t   J a c k e t
G R E A T   E x p e c t a t i o n s

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

• progress report / status info ( ? )___

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

• Zollhof Art and Media Center, Dusseldorf, Germany 1993-1995 -- Zaha Hadid

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• progress report / status info ( ? )___

c o v e r t   c o n s t r u c t i o n s

• undetected others: f l y i n g   low and or s l o w ?
  high-profile low-visibility works under construction - ANY tips anyone ?

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• Bill Gates' House, Medina, Lake Washington, Seattle 1989-1991 (first scheduled); 1989-1997 -- Bohlin Cywinski Jackson/ Peter Bohlin, James Cutler
  {also ran: Peter Forbes, Charles Moore, William Turnbull}

  ** 41-year-old Gates, top of 1997 Forbes 400 list, worth $39.8 billion, up from $18.5 billion a year ago,

  • 37,000 sf, 20-car garage, $30 mil;
  • 40,000 sf, $50 mil;
  • 20,000 sf (1,858 m2) main home and other structures on five-acre (2.024 hectares) lot, an indoor swimming pool, movie theater, health spa, 30-car garage, a trampoline room, $60 mil; (rns_97.09.18)
  • "40,000 sf mansion ... set on 5 acres that includes a man-made trout stream ... 60-ft pool, a sauna, a 1,700 sf guest house, a trampoline room, a 20-seat theater, an arcade, a 24-screen video wall, a sport court, a dock for water skiing, two spas, a formal dining room and library, and a reception hall for 100 people, $53,392,000 ..." (ap_97.09.26)

  
  

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(*****) back in the news

• King George Tower (previously Hooker Tower; later, American Express Tower), Sydney 1970-1976 -- JAI/John Andrews

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

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