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On the Cover: Seattle Central Library, by OMA and LMN.
Photograph by Timothy Hursley Photos
Right: Loisium, by Steven Holl. Photograph by Margherita Spiluttini
News Building Types Study 835
21 Piano chosen for Whitney expansion 133 Introduction: Restaurants by Clifford A. Pearson
30 New York selects potential Olympic Village design 134 Megu, New York City by Clifford A. Pearson*
Kajima Associates
Departments 140 Chlösterli, Switzerland by Philip Jodidio*
Patrick Jouin
15 Editorial: That’s my opinion 144 Jefferson, New York City by William Weathersby, Jr.*
17 Letters* Philip Wu Architect
43 Dates & Events* 148 Soba Restaurant, Japan by Clifford A. Pearson*
49 Archrecord2: For the emerging architect by Randi Greenberg Kengo Kuma & Associates
53 Correspondent’s File: Athens by Sam Lubell For additional restaurant projects, go to Building Types
61 Critique: Gehry’s Stata Center by Robert Campbell, FAIA Study at architecturalrecord.com.
67 Commentary: The American Embassy by Jane Loeffler
73 Exhibitions: Milan Furniture Fair by William Weathersby, Jr. Building Science & Technology
77 Snapshot: Camera Obscura by Sam Lubell 153 Defining Component-Based Design by Barbara Knecht*
240 Profile: Tord Boontje by Josephine Minutillo* Using the tools of mass production to rediscover true craftsmanship.
163 Tech Briefs: Charles de Gaulle Airport*
Features Residential
80 Architecture Centers by Sam Lubell
Bridging the divide between architects and the public. 167 Introduction
168 PIA and HUD Awards
Projects 172 27, 27A, 27B Berrima by Robert Powell
WOHA Designs
88 Seattle Central Library, Seattle by Sheri Olson*
178 Weathering Steel House by Raul A. Barreneche
OMA joint venture with LMN
Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
Rem Koolhaas’s “information storehouse” redefines the library.
185 Texas Twister by David Dillon
102 Kendall Square, Massachusetts by Nancy Levinson*
Building Studio
Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner and Steven Ehrlich Architects
America’s archetypal college town welcomes two signature buildings. 188 Villa C by Philip Jodidio
Groep Delta Architectuur
114 Loisium Visitors’ Center, Austria by Liane Lefaivre*
Steven Holl Architects 195 Kitchen & Bath Portfolio by Rita F. Catinella
A visitors’ center makes a splash in Austrian wine country. 201 Residential Products by Rita F. Catinella and Josephine Minutillo
120 Royal and General Archives of Pamplona, Spain by Paula Deitz*
Rafael Moneo Products
A medieval palace is reinvented as an archives and study center. 207 Storage & Shelving 222 Product Literature
126 Brown Center, Baltimore by Deborah Snoonian, P.E.* 211 Milan Furniture Fair Review by Josephine Minutillo
Ziger/Snead and Charles Brickbauer
Dramatic contours signal a new era for an art college. 224 Reader Service* 226 AIA/CES Self-Report Form*
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Continuing-Education Opportunity is “Defining including expanded coverage of Projects, Building Types Studies, and
Component-Based Design” (page 153). Web-only special features.
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4. That’s My Opinion
Editorial
By Robert Ivy, FAIA
H
ow could your otherwise fine magazine allow…” Thus begins a ments. Read them. “Editorial,” for example, announces the editor’s own
lament, an actual complaint about a writer’s point of view. We get perspective, speaking for the magazine. “Critique” describes an essay, replete
letters like this all the time from readers who want to tangle with a with Michael Sorkin’s or Robert Campbell’s personality, language, wit, and
writer expressing a strong opinion in print. We exult in these arguments, individual worldview. “Commentary” contains the musings of a qualified
even the hyperbolic ones, since few publications share such a committed, vital staff or outside writer. Those small tabs outside the projects act like road
constituency as architectural record. You always tell us what you think, signs—important, but easy to miss.
as if the future of the architectural profession depended on it. In a sense, it In addition to clarity, expect balance. If architectural record
does, and we treat your opinions with that same concern. veers heavily toward one extreme, don’t panic. Read the accompanying arti-
Ironically, the challenge to integrate more critical writing into these cle that tilts the argument from right to left, such as the twin stories we ran
pages has come both from our editors and from you, who have continually about Chicago’s Soldier Field in May 2004, in which Joseph Giovannini and
asked, like Oliver Twist with his porridge, for more. Your desire for a critical Stanley Tigerman took opposing corners. Or look during the following months
voice reflects shared years of academic conditioning, where we regularly face for an answer to a question raised in an article, a response in a letter or occa-
scrutiny (sometimes withering, sometimes cruel, sometimes enlightened) of sionally in another piece. When Michael Sorkin wrote a strongly worded essay
professors, practitioners, and fellow students. In the design studio and jury, on Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance (which provoked a firestorm of contro-
we learned to question and debate, to take nothing for granted. Then at versy), we agreed to publish a countervailing opinion from the client’s
graduation, the clouds parted; suddenly, our clientele seemed too accepting of perspective that should air in August. Sorkin deserved ink, versed as he is as a
our work, prompting us to yearn for those tougher early crits. Can’t a mag- professor who has studied the beleaguered city’s planning; but we are also
azine provide the equivalent of a splash of cold water? making room for the museum’s client—a rare case, but an important one.
Up to a point. Although you will encounter more of the writer’s voice Criticism can probe where the camera cannot, since ultimately real
in our pages today, we mete out critical writing judiciously at record. While buildings (and unbuilt ones, too) are only as good as the ideas underlying
the magazine began publication as a critical journal (as in offering evalua- them. We need critical writing to sift through the layers—social, environ-
tion), over time it had broadened its point of view to become a literal record mental, psychological, tectonic, or aesthetic—piercing through the rhetoric,
of the world’s most relevant ideas and structures. For years, a project’s mere exposing the emperor’s new clothes, balancing our praise with understanding,
P H OTO G R A P H Y : © A N D R É S O U R O U J O N
inclusion in the magazine implied a positive assessment. After strong inter- and offering the occasional, bracing splash. In the days to come, you will see
nal debate, in recent years we have arrived at a consensus on our approach to more criticism; but remember, you asked for it, and we agreed: It’s critical.
different types of reporting: Simply put, categories should be clear.
Certainly, project stories now often combine straight reporting with
points of view. But you, the reader, can expect to know what you are
encountering elsewhere in the magazine, whether factual reporting (which
characterizes the news, for example), descriptive text, or opinion. Your signals
lie in the small, significant headings that precede each story in our depart-
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5. Letters
Funds for university projects without an outcry is beyond me. However, I was disappointed when I ent-day design excess and mistakenly
DEPARTMENTS
Thank you for the very well-written —Allen Rubenstein came across the Correspondent’s confuses playful with delightful.
and comprehensive article docu- Los Angeles File [page 79], which discussed Critical opinion, based on the classic
menting the career of AIA Gold building in Toronto. Wooton/Scott triad, would frown on
Medalist Sambo Mockbee [June Keep “her” out of it The article began by talking much that is presently published,
2004, page 184], including the work I applaud your point of view in the about the recent explosion in the con- where extreme design becomes a
of Auburn University’s Rural Studio. May editorial [“Beyond Style,” page struction of public buildings, such as role model and spawns “playful”
Regarding the Rural Studio, the 17] for recognizing the offending New the Royal Ontario Museum addition architecture worldwide, ad nauseam.
impression was left that due to the York Times Magazine article on by Daniel Libeskind, the Art Gallery of —James A. Gresham, FAIA
university’s very generous funding (an Pritzker Prize–winning architect Zaha Ontario addition by Frank Gehry, and Tucson, Ariz.
annual commitment of $400,000) Hadid. Such gender-focused news the new Four Seasons Opera House
and the fact that communities now coverage symbolizes a tenor in our by the firm Diamond and Schmitt. Corrections
help with the cost of projects, that industry that may explain why barely Two thirds of Toronto’s major Due to a production error, the wrong
the Studio’s financial future is secure. 20 percent of licensed architects in post-secondary institutions were image accompanied the description
That is not the case. State laws do firms are women [News, May 2004, mentioned, including the new addi- of Centria’s Concept Series, a collec-
not allow university funds to be used page 25], while in academia 42 tion to the Ontario College of Art tion of concealed-fastener exterior
for project construction costs. Further, percent of graduate architectural and Design by Will Alsop. metal-wall-panel profiles, on page
community contributions only cover students are women (according to The post-secondary institution 369 in the June issue. The correct
about 20 percent of the actual project NAAB and the 2000–2002 AIA Firm that was overlooked, and which I image appears below. On the same
costs. Approximately $250,000 Survey). As an architect and studio myself attended, was Ryerson page, the wrong measurement was
must be raised annually from private leader with SmithGroup—in addition University, truly in the heart of down-
sources in order to cover total con- to being a woman, a wife, and a town. Ryerson is currently undergoing
struction costs. mother—I add value to the profes- its own great expansion equal to
We are in the process of rais- sion, as any individual does. I feel the University of Toronto’s. At this
ing an endowment to ensure that that I have accomplished a great deal moment, Ryerson is building six new
there is adequate construction in the course of my 20-year career, buildings—worth approximately
funding into perpetuity. Only then but I know that troubling perceptions $250 million—that will transform the
will the future of Sambo’s remark- and stereotypes still exist. I chose campus. I greatly enjoyed my time in
able legacy be secure. architecture because of the high Ryerson’s architecture program, and
—Daniel D. Bennett, FAIA ideals of the architects that I studied; I encourage everyone to visit Ryerson
Dean, College of Architecture I’ve dreamt of making a difference University online at www.ryerson.ca
Design + Construction and feel I’ve done that. Hadid has and www.ryerson.ca/build/. Now,
Auburn University realized her dream, and I thank you everyone can see that Toronto has
for insisting that the “her” aspect not two world-class architectural univer-
Why ruin a masterpiece? overshadow the reason why architect sities being designed by leading
I have traveled to Barcelona twice, Zaha Hadid has risen to receive our architects.
30 years apart, to see Gaudí’s profession’s highest honor. —Andrew Robinson
Sagrada Familia [Correspondent’s —Anne Belleau-Mills, AIA Toronto, Canada
File, June 2004, page 109]. There is Detroit given for the Lafarge Ductal compo-
unanimity that this is one of the The qualities of architecture nents used in the Shawnessy
world’s great buildings. Its eight tow- Keep it coming Robert Campbell’s division of archi- Station project in Calgary, Canada.
ers originally rose over a low-rise I would just like to thank you for help- tecture into the playful and the ethical The project used 24 precast curved
neighborhood. A grand central spire, ing to create public awareness on the is curious [Critique, May 2004, page canopies, each measuring 3⁄4'' thick.
as yet unfinished, was to grow out of rebuilding of the Twin Towers. I love 67]. Vitruvius chose not to divide In the May issue [page 123], the
the center to soar over the existing Ken Gardner’s design for the new WTC architecture into camps, but instead name of Greg Grunloh, AIA, a project
towers and the local community. Until [News, April 2004, page 32]. Please assigned three essential and interre- manager for Holabird & Root, the
now. The setting of this masterpiece write more articles on the topic. lated qualities to it, namely: firmness, architect of record and structural
is completely destroyed by the adja- —Mike Beggen commodity, and delight. engineer for the McCormick-Tribune
cent Agbar Tower, as your photograph New York City “Ethical” strongly suggests both Campus Center, IIT, in Chicago, was
on page 110 clearly shows. How any firmness (structure) and commodity misspelled.
architectural commentator could dis- My Toronto has Ryerson U. (function or usefulness). Campbell’s
cuss Barcelona regional planning I was impressed with the April issue. two-part thesis is permissive of pres- Send letters to rivy@mcgraw-hill.com.
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6. Record News Highlights Lower Manhattan news p. 22
Foster and OMA unveil designs in Dallas p. 24
Muschamp leaving the Times p. 30
New projects for Hadid, Herzog & DeMeuron,
and Nouvel p. 34
AIA Convention draws record numbers to Chicago
This year’s AIA Convention, held seminars, and continuing-education
June 10–12 in Chicago, will be con- sessions were filled to capacity, as
sidered a success for many reasons, were most sales booths.
but perhaps the biggest—literally— On Friday, Samuel Mockbee and
was its size. The event attracted a Lake Flato were designated AIA Gold
record 22,159 registrants, topping Medalist and Firm of the Year, and the
San Diego’s in 2003, which drew AIA inducted 81 new members into
20,025. The list of exhibiting compa- its College of Fellows. The next day,
nies at cavernous McCormick Place Honor Award winners reviewed their
also broke the record, reaching 850. projects, and Kate Schwennsen, FAIA,
Before the crowd, architect was elected 2006 AIA president. In
Helmut Jahn and authors Erik Larson other business, delegates adopted a
and Virginia Postrel offered keynote $50 dues increase and a resolution
addresses that captured, respectively,to support research efforts focusing
on diversity in the profession.
the scope of future projects in the city,
the illustrious history of the metropo- An emotional highlight came on Participants check into the AIA Expo at Chicago’s McCormick Place.
Thursday night with a screening of
lis’s built environment, and the rise of
aesthetic consciousness in the coun- Nathaniel Kahn’s Oscar-nominated winning the Academy Award,” Kahn plenary session. “Our buildings make
try. Throughout the event, speeches, film, My Architect. Nearly 2,000 quipped. a statement about Chicago—they’re
people braved a downpour Besides the AIA, the star of the bold, unconventional, and willing
to gather at the splendidly show was Chicago itself. Convention to take risks.” He also discussed
restored Auditorium goers could be spotted gawking at the city’s aggressive green-building
Theater by Adler & skyscrapers on riverboat tours, visit- efforts. All new public buildings in the
Sullivan for the event. ing Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and city are required to be LEED-certified,
Kahn received a 90- studio in Oak Park, and viewing the more than 80 green roofs have been
second standing ovation, upcoming Millennium Park. installed on tall buildings, and the city
preceded that morning “This is a city that takes recently opened the Chicago Center
by an AIA Presidential architecture seriously,” said Chicago for Green Technology, a resource for
Citation. “This takes some Mayor Richard Daley as he wel- architects and the public. Sam
Honorees at the AIA Fellows ceremony. of the sting out of not comed the crowd at the opening Lubell and Deborah Snoonian, P.E.
P H OTO G R A P H Y : C O U R T E SY A M E R I C A N I N S T I T U T E O F A R C H I T E CT S
Renzo Piano chosen to design Whitney Museum expansion
Reflecting a change in priorities, the Whitney Museum of Art on June 16 and he has a wonderful sense for details and materials.” Design and budget
chose Italian architect Renzo Piano to design an expansion of its building on for the project have not yet been set, but museum officials say Piano will
East 74th Street in Manhattan. Piano will replace Rem Koolhaas’s Office for work to improve and enlarge gallery spaces, and that he is interested in utiliz-
Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), which had proposed a much more sizable ing (not destroying) nearby historic town houses, perhaps for museum offices.
plan, abandoned last year. Weinberg says Piano’s project may rise above the museum’s current height.
The Architecture Selection Committee of the Museum’s board picked Koolhaas’s proposal, developed more than two years ago, had a $200
Piano after a six-month search. The biggest factor, say Whitney officials, was million budget and would have virtually reshaped the building’s exterior. It
a desire to put more emphasis on viewing art inside than on the view of the was abandoned about 18 months ago. “I think his plan was spectacular,”
building from the street.“We already have a destination,” says museum director says Weinberg. “But I think this idea will be more doable in terms of
Adam Weinberg, of the Whitney’s iconic 1966 Marcel Breuer edifice. “To my expense, program, and preserving historic landmarks.” Piano’s replacement
mind, the spectacle should be as much or more about art than architecture.” of Koolhaas at the Whitney virtually repeats a scenario at the Los Angeles
Weinberg adds, “Renzo is incredibly sensitive to the needs of contemporary County Museum of Art, which recently replaced a massive plan by Koolhaas/
art and artists. He loves natural light, his interiors have a very human scale, OMA with a more understated, and cost-effective, design by Piano. S.L.
07.04 Architectural Record 21

7. Record News oculus will be the above-
ground face of the new
center, much of the new
design will be underground.
The Fulton Street subway
REBUILDING LOWER MANHATTAN platforms would connect
to Santiago Calatrava’s
OFF THE RECORD Design for Fulton proposed PATH station by
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD is curating the
Street Transit Hub underground passageway,
and changes to the under-
exhibition Transcending Type for the unveiled ground station will simplify
U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture New York City’s Metropolitan confusing ramps, add esca-
Biennale, to be held September 12 to Transportation Authority (MTA) has lators, and increase access
November 7. Participating firms released drawings for a new transit to subway platforms.
include Kolatan/MacDonald, Reiser + hub in Lower Manhattan, to be Existing art in the
Umemoto, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, designed by Grimshaw’s New York station will be preserved,
George Yu Architects, Studio/Gang office. The new building will link sta- A model of Grimshaw’s 50-foot-glass pavilion. though relocated, while
Architects, and Predock_Frane. tions for nine subway lines, and will James Carpenter Design
stand at the corner of Broadway and Wheeler, the MTA’s director of spe- Associates is developing new art
The Museum of Modern Art in New Fulton Street, about a block from the cial project development and for the station. A team from the
York will open its new facility in site of the World Trade Center. planning. “It’s very hard to find, and MTA stations department is work-
Midtown Manhattan this November. The building itself is planned as it’s very hard to navigate once ing to incorporate new materials.
a 50-foot-tall glass pavilion, with a you’re down there. And light was The architects also collaborated
Daniel Libeskind has been named tapering steel-and-glass dome rising a big factor. So that directly trans- with Daniel Frankfurt, Lee Harris
the United States Cultural Ambassador from the middle. The design, say its lated into the solution.” Pomeroy Associates, and staff from
for Architecture by the U.S. State architects, is intended to make the The design incorporates two the MTA.
Department. station a neighborhood landmark small stores at street level, and The building is expected to
and bring light into the now-dark preserves the Corbin Building, an cost $750 million and will be com-
Rafael Viñoly’s $875 million Boston subway platforms below ground. ornate office building from 1889 pleted in 2007. Funding will come
Convention and Exhibition Center “We wanted to improve the ori- that sits adjacent to the new subway entirely through federal grants.
opened in June. At 1.7 million square entation of the facility,” says William entrance. Though the pavilion and Kevin Lerner
feet, it is the largest convention center
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Institutions chosen for WTC cultural sites
Professor Peter Cook is stepping down TOWER 1:
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as chairman of the Bartlett School of In a festive presentation on June 10 square feet apiece. No details TOWER ARTS
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Architecture, University College featuring musicians, dancers, about funding or designers WEDGE OF
LIGHT PLAZA
London. actors, and world luminaries, Lower have been worked out, said PATH TERMINAL
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Manhattan officials named the insti- LMDC president Kevin Rampe. PLAZA
CULTURAL
New York’s High Line, which plans to tutions that will host cultural facilities One hundred twelve MEMORIAL
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build a public space at the city’s old at the former World Trade Center site. institutions had expressed MEMORIAL
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west side rail lines, has named The winners included the Joyce interest in hosting space, and
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design finalists that include Diller, Theater Foundation, a dance organi- some may still find locales TOWER 4
Scofidio + Renfro; Skidmore, Owings & zation; the Signature Theater; the near the site, officials said.
Merrill; Zaha Hadid Architects; Drawing Center, a visual arts gallery; Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Steven Holl Architects; and Michael and the Freedom Center, a new noted: “Only in New York
Van Valkenburgh Associates. institution dedicated to examining would we be able to look in TOWER 5
freedom worldwide. Each will be our own backyard and find
Landscape architect Charles Jencks lodged in one of two cultural build- such a tremendous array of
has won the $175,000 Gulbenkian ings at the northern end of the Trade cultural groups to choose The new spaces (in orange) will include
Museum of the Year Prize for the Center site, measuring 250,000 from.” S.L. cultural and performing arts venues.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern
Art in Edinburgh. Cultural Buildings munity meeting room, donor’s lounge.
• Signature Theater Company: 499-seat auditorium, • The Drawing Center: Up to six gallery spaces,
Mohsen Mostafavi, chairman of 299-seat auditorium, and a flexible 99–199-seat audito- spaces for public programs, education, and events.
London’s Architectural Association, rium. Bookstore, café, lobby. • The Freedom Center: Exhibition spaces, a theater,
was named dean of Cornell University’s
• Joyce Theater Foundation: 900–1,000 seat prosce- presentation space, classrooms, reception space, grand
College of Architecture, Art, and nium theater. Rehearsal studios, café, gift shop, com- entrance, café, bookstore, “Place of Contemplation.”
Planning.
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OMA’s Wylie Theater will be made mostly of glass.
be surrounded by lobbies, promenades, and
restaurants. The glass walls will open onto a
grand plaza shaded by a floating sunscreen.
“The last thing we want is a cultural ghetto,”
says Spencer de Grey, lead designer of the Opera
House. “We want the influence of both projects to
Dallas unveils designs for extend through and beyond the entire arts dis-
performing arts center trict.” Koolhaas and OMA presented an 11-story
tower, with a glass-walled theater occupying the
After a period in which only two major buildings lower floors, and offices, rehearsal studios, cos-
were constructed in 20 years, the Dallas Arts tume shop, and other support spaces stacked on
District is quickly making up for lost time. Following top. The project is another version of the “vertical
Renzo Piano’s Nasher Sculpture Center, which city” idea that Koolhaas first introduced in his book
opened last October, on June 8 Foster and Partners Delirious New York.
and Rem Koolhaas’s Office of Metropolitan “Height allows a small building to hold its own
Architecture (OMA) unveiled preliminary designs among larger neighbors,” explains project architect
for an opera house and the- Joshua Ramus. “If it were quiet
ater, centerpieces of the and modest, it wouldn't be the
$275 million Dallas Center populist building we want.”
for the Performing Arts. The stage will be recon-
The pair of buildings figurable by means of lifts,
represents a dramatic break pulleys, turntables, and other
with the existing low-slung, mechanical devices. And as
limestone aesthetic of the with the opera house, the
Arts District. The Winspear glass walls will open directly
Opera House will be the dis- Foster’s Winspear Opera House. onto a public plaza. Plazas,
trict’s first primarily glass gardens, and a canopy of
building, the Wyly Theater its first tower. Both trees will link the Foster and Koolhaas buildings,
designs aim for visual prominence. plus a smaller, third theater by Skidmore Owings
The Opera House, a red polished-concrete & Merrill, Chicago.
egg in a curving glass box, will seat 2,200 and Construction on both projects will begin
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cost an estimated $150 million. The main audito- in 2006, with the entire performing arts center
rium will form a traditional horseshoe shape and scheduled to open in 2009. David Dillon
OMA and Chinese authorities deny demise of CCTV project
Speculation is raging over the future of Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)/Rem Koolhaas’s
proposed headquarters and national broadcast center for China Central Television (CCTV). The much-
publicized scheme calls for a 55-floor angular building on a large and valuable piece of land in the
heart of Beijing’s new Central Business District at an estimated cost of $730 million.
Many in China regard the project as unrealistic, given its hefty price tag, complex design, and
location within the capital’s commercial and financial core. Some in China’s state council are said to
be apprehensive about the scheme, though the council has still given its tacit approval to the project.
The Chinese press has been mum on the subject, but Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported
that the project had been stalled, hinting that it may have been suspended. Additionally, the Chinese
central government recently issued a directive curbing expensive building projects, with the aim to
cool down the country’s extensive building craze, adding fuel to the rumors about the building’s future.
However, both CCTV and OMA insist the project is on track.
“I know there’s been a lot of high-level political discussion about how China should spend its
money, and the gap between rich and poor,” says Ole Schereen, OMA’s lead architect on the project,
“but I can assure you, [CCTV Headquarters] is by no means dead.” Daniel Elsea

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KUSSER AICHA Graniteworks USA Design with
Natural Stone
Paris Opera completes renovation of its Grand Foyer
Making the Few Paris buildings are as spectacular as the icism, but Garnier had saved money by using oil
Impossible Opera Garnier. A virtual palace, it anchors one of paint, with nuances of gold applied only to visible
Reality! Baron Haussmann’s famous radiating urban axes. surfaces. He also mass-produced some of the
Surrounded on four sides by traffic-choked roads, decorative bronze elements, coating reusable
the Opera has suffered for its location and had molds by electrolysis. While every inch of wall
· Original KUGEL
lost most of its patina. In the 1990s, the French appears carved in gold, the substructure is made
Floating Ball
· Floating Objects government launched an ambitious total restora- up of wood and plaster.
· Monumental Works tion to be fazed over 12 years. In 1995, the The restoration, overseen by France’s Service
of Art theater and stage were restored and modernized. National des Travaux with lead architect Alain
· Granite Fountains, In 2000, the newly cleaned entry facade was Charles Perrot, returns the hall to its original
Waterwalls unveiled, exposing a variety of colored marbles splendor, encompassing ceiling paintings, parquet,
· Natural Stone and blinding gold statues. And in May, the Grand mirrors, 7-foot-high statues, marble, drapery, and
Elements Foyer reopened after a $5 million face-lift. chandeliers. The job took the work of more than
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1861 to build the Opera, fabrics, for example, were
which was inaugurated in reproduced by the factory
1875. As dictated by the that first made them and
original program, the Opera that had kept samples, iden-
included a foyer where peo- tified through old receipts.
ple would not come to sit The final step in the
but to stroll. It was therefore Opera’s restoration will focus
designed to be “as long as on the building’s perimeter,
possible.” Garnier went one including lampposts and
step further in making his exterior stairs, as well as the
195-foot-long foyer accessi- two lateral facades and the
ble to all floors and people cupola. The entire project
of all classes. The grandeur will be completed by 2007.
of the space drew some crit- The Opera’s renovated Grand Foyer. Claire Downey
New Marcus Prize will honor emerging architects
Inspired by the Pritzker Prize, Milwaukee’s arm of the Marcus Corporation, which owns and
Marcus Corporation Foundation has announced operates movie theaters, resorts, and hotels,
a new $50,000 Marcus Prize, to be awarded including Baymont Inns and Suites, throughout
biannually to an emerging architect. Unlike the the United States. Stephen H. Marcus, chair and
$100,000 Pritzker Prize, which recognizes an chief executive officer of the corporation, says,
already well-known architect’s career or body of “Our long-term vision for the award is to attract
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work, the Marcus Prize will recognize individual international attention to Milwaukee.”
architects earlier in their careers, when they are Applications for the initial Marcus Prize will
just on the cusp of greatness. be available in January 2005, and a jury of archi-
The Marcus Corporation Foundation will tects, critics, and members of the Milwaukee
provide an additional $50,000 to the University community will select the winner in June 2005.
Aicha vorm Wald, Germany of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture The winner is expected to be a guest lecturer
Material: Tittlinger Granite and Urban Planning to administer the prize and and critic in a new graduate-level Marcus Design
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Bob Greenstreet, dean of the school, orches- lenge in Milwaukee.
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AT NBM Designers develop alternatives to Gehry’s Brooklyn plans
When architect Joel Towers first saw developer Towers, a partner at SR + T Architects and
lectures Bruce Ratner’s proposal for a $2.5 billion Nets director of Sustainable Design at Parsons School
July 7 arena complex in Brooklyn, he saw one problem: of Design, then drew up another scheme, called
Wolf D. Prix His home was within the site. “Swerve,” which reconfigures Atlantic Avenue,
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co-principal of Soon afterward, Ratner announced that he near the site, to provide more land for the project.
Coop Himmelb(l)au, would remove buildings in the area through emi- He presented the plan at a city council meeting
Vienna, Austria nent domain, a law that allows the city to condemn in April that was attended by Ratner.
rescheduled from June
property for urban renewal, Meanwhile, Brown and
and Towers quickly began his team, after meeting with
July 8
sketching his own plan—one residents in March, offered
Sasaki:
that would preserve his house. an option that calls for five-
Designing the Civic Realm
Towers is one of several to 10-story buildings, a winding
Dennis Pieprz, president of
local architects working on green space, and a reconnec-
Sasaki Associates, Boston, MA
counterproposals to Ratner’s tion of streets now severed by
July 12 plan, designed largely by the rail yards. The plan does
Sea Ranch Frank Gehry, FAIA, that aims not include an arena. Instead,
Donlyn Lyndon, professor at University to construct a 15,000-seat it aims to move it to the
of California, Berkeley arena and four soaring resi- Brooklyn Navy Yards, a 300-
dential towers over the acre swath of land owned by
July 22 Atlantic rail yards in downtown the city on the East River.
Roger Duffy: SOM Brooklyn. The new plans vary Brown’s plan includes a winding park Congressman Major Owens
partner of Skidmore, Owings & greatly, but all attempt to and a relocated stadium. also commissioned architect
Merrill, New York, NY prevent the displacement of Jennifer Gelin to examine the
residents and businesses. “We are working to site. Her proposal links the arena with the 2012
exhibitions create a menu of alternatives,” says architect
Marshall Brown, who is working with district
Olympic bid plan, which relies heavily on water-
borne transportation.
Liquid Stone: council member Letitia James and a team of As of now, Ratner has not made any further
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New Architecture neighborhood architects and urban designers. commitments to review the alternative proposals.
in Concrete Towers’ first plan, called “Shift,” moves the However, James Stucky, vice president of Forest
through January 23, 300,000-square-foot arena onto a platform above City Ratner (FCR), said the company is making
2005
the Atlantic Center, just north of the rail yards. New every effort not to displace residents. “We will
residential buildings would remain in the plan but either have to buy the buildings or carve out a
Affordable
be horizontally scaled and densely packed to blend space for them,” he says. Beth Davidson, an FCR
Housing:
with surrounding buildings and preserve existing spokesperson, says the company has already
Designing an
structures. In January, Towers discussed his proposal gone through 36 sketches in order to minimize
American Asset
with Ratner and Gehry. Gehry liked the platform the need for condemnation. Still, such plans
through August 8, 2004
idea but insisted the arena stay at ground level. remain vague at best. Christina Rogers
Samuel Mockbee
and the Rural Studio:
Community Architecture Reed Kroloff named Tulane architecture dean
through September 6, 2004
Reed Kroloff, former editor of Architecture Magazine, was recently appointed dean of Tulane
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University’s School of Architecture in New Orleans. His appointment becomes effective October 1.
national building museum Ron Filson, FAIA, has been serving as interim dean since January.
401 F Street, NW A recipient of the Rome Prize, Kroloff is completing his residency at the American Academy in
Washington, DC 20001 Rome. He has held teaching positions at the University of Texas and Arizona State University. He also
202 / 272-2448 serves as principal of Reed Kroloff Design Services of New York, which in addition to its own work,
www.NBM.org serves as consult on architectural competitions worldwide.
“Given his national prominence, varied experiences, and remarkable accomplishments, we are
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New York chooses design for potential Olympic Village
If any architectural commission requires the typology of the continuous apartment block
“juice,” that burst of breakaway energy on the by breaking free of the right angle both in plan
athletic field, it’s Olympic architecture—and and section. Leaning backward and forward as
juice is exactly what the New York City 2012 they curve across the site, and mixing in typology,
Committee got when officials announced in May the buildings generate an energy field whose vec-
that Thom Mayne’s Morphosis had won an tors lead north toward a dense urban nexus of
invited competition to design the Olympic Village apartment towers surrounding an urban square.
proposed by the city in its bid to capture the Alexander Garvin, NYC2012’s director of plan-
2012 Games. ning and design, asked the five competing architect
The proposed village would be located just teams “for a new kind of plan,” he says, “and a new
opposite the United Nations in Hunters Point, standard for housing.” Morphosis’s subsequent plan
Queens, on a former industrial site bounded on inventively breaks free of precedents, using archi-
two sides by the East River and Newton Creek.
Mayne has made a 43-acre park, designed with
landscape architect George Hargreaves, the
central organizational feature of a 52-acre com-
plex of mixed-use buildings, 4,500 apartments,
and Olympic facilities that, after the games,
would convert to market-rate apartments and
community facilities.
The park’s design includes wind-protective
berms and creases, whose fluid spaces are
shaped by what are effectively horizontal, undu-
lating skyscrapers. Mayne carefully breaks and
elevates the blocks to achieve view corridors to
the East River and the Manhattan skyline, while Morphosis’s design breaks free of right angles.
easing the park on a slope down to the Newton
Creek, where the design team cultivate an inti- tecture as an urban design tool to create a highly
mate relationship with the water via boardwalks active, people-centered urbanism.
set among abundant vegetation. Along the East Garvin is sanguine that if the bid for the
River, the design includes docking facilities and Olympics fails, the numbers—“If I do my job
a recreational pier, which protects a welcoming properly”—will justify building an adapted ver-
beachhead. sion of the plan that goes forward on a market
The complex’s buildings, which strongly basis. Even without the Olympics, Queens West
recall Corbusier’s Unités d’Habitation, reinvent will still have juice. Joseph Giovannini
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Muschamp leaving post as Times architecture critic
New York Times architecture critic Herbert them, and some don’t.”
robert chipman, ASLA
Muschamp will be moving to a new beat, confirms Landman would not say when the move
a source within the paper. will take place. He added that Muschamp had
Culture Desk editor Jonathan Landman been thinking of changing assignments for
told RECORD that Muschamp decided “he’s been some time, although he could not remember
doing it long enough, and he wants to do some- when he and Muschamp had first discussed
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move will be of his own volition, and says that of June 7, he says.
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performance. that Nicolai Ouroussoff, who is currently the
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The plan features a circular boardwalk.
and the port during several false
starts at redeveloping the area over
the past eight years.
The Sasaki/Quigley team disre-
garded competition rules by preserving
a historic police headquarters building
on the site slated for partial demolition,
and by envisioning a grassy, 6.5-acre
park that challenged expectations, pro-
posing to dredge old landfill to create
an iconic mini harbor encircled by a
3,600-foot-long Arc Walk. Proposed
attractions within the arc include a
San Diego approves designs to sandy beach, a floating stage, and boat
revamp its waterfront slips. More study is needed to deter-
mine if this wide, circular boardwalk will
Following the June 8 approval by the San Diego float on pontoons or be designed to double as a
Unified Port District commissioners, a prominent breakwater, and how boats will traverse the arc.
25-acre section of downtown San Diego’s Owen Lang, of Sasaki’s San Francisco
waterfront will be redeveloped with a circular office, had previously led public waterfront plan-
boardwalk, new parkland, and commercial ning workshops for the port; he was able to
development to reunite a part of the city now contribute extensive knowledge to help attract
blocked from San Diego Bay. The plan was residents and tourists to a zone now dominated
developed by Sasaki Associates/Rob Wellington by high-rise hotels and a mile-long convention
Quigley, FAIA, which also had the unanimous center.
vote of a four-person competition jury and over- “Owen and I agreed to approach the com-
whelming public support. petition as an academic enterprise, regardless
The commissioners’ decision to endorse of the rules, regardless of the restraints, which
the proposal marked a change in the port’s made it really fun,” says Quigley, who is based
development strategy, which has been mostly in San Diego. Though the proposal will be
piecemeal and revenue-driven. It also may have refined, the cost is estimated at $213 million.
quelled contentiousness that developed among The port will soon issue a request for proposals
residents, businesses, historic preservationists, from potential developers. Ann Jarmusch
Planning under way for new Toronto waterfront
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classic series
lead for the 90-acre West Donlands areas. Both areas are currently underutilized industrial locations
designer series barely a mile from the heart of the city’s downtown and adjacent to Lake Ontario.
Koetter Kim’s East Bayfront plan envisions the neighborhood as a significant public destination
detail from the
Fleur de Lis Collection year-round, with an aquarium or winter garden, and housing anchored by a commercial boulevard. The
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scheme includes varied parcel sizes meant to encourage the involvement of smaller developers.
Meanwhile, Urban Design Associates’ plan for the West Donlands creates a neighborhood of 6- to
7,000 apartments and town houses organized around a 15-acre, elliptical park. The plan uses a system
of laneways and includes innovations such as consolidated underground parking to allow for more
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