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Seven
World Trade Center
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill / David
Childs
(2005) New York City, United States
The first new tower on the site replaces the last one to fall
when David Childs Seven World Trade Center opens just north
of (and independent from) the area covered by the World Trade
Center Master Plan.
Learn
more about SOM and Deavid Childs at ArBITAT Architects
See
pictures of 7 WTC at ArBITAT Construction Reports
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Young Museum
Herzog and de Meuron
(2005) San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco is probably (still) not ready for the new de
Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Easily
the most interesting building in the entire, surprisingly
conservative city.
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more about Herzog and de Meuron at ArBITAT Architects
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Turning
Torso Tower
Santiago Calatrava
(2005) Malmo, Sweden
Closer to Copenhagen than it is to Stockholm, Malmo tries
to escape the shadow of both with an absolutely beautiful
residential tower by Santiago Calatrava.
Learn more about Santiago Calatrava at ArBITAT Architects
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Kolumbia
Diocesean Museum
Peter Zumthor
(2005) Cologne, Germany
Forget all about the cathedral and go to the new Peter Zumthor
building instead.
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more about Peter Zumthor at ArBITAT Architects
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| Hotel
Hesperia
Richard Rogers
(2005) Barcelona, Spain
Another hotel with a rooftop restaurant, albeit one designed
by Richard Rogers.
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more about Sir Richard Rogers at ArBITAT Architects
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The
Public Arts Center
Will Alsop
(2005) West Bromwich, England, United Kingdom
Everyone in Liverpool will finally see what almost was when
the people of the Midlands open up their cool new Arts Center
in 2005.
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more about Will Alsop at ArBITAT Architects
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| The
Clark Art Institute
Tadao Ando
(2005) Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States
An acre and a half reflecting pool is only a small piece of
the expansion of the Clark Art Institute.
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more about Tadao Ando at ArBITAT Architects
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| High
Museum Addition
Renzo Piano
(2005) Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Richard Meier's museum in Atlanta gets a respectful working
over with a new "village for the arts."
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more about Renzo Piano at ArBITAT Architects
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Dan Pharmacy Building
Foster and Partners
(2005) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maybe its just another new building at the University of Toronto,
but it is also the only one designed by Norman Foster.
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more about Sir Norman Foster at ArBITAT Architects
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| City
of Culture
Peter Eisenman
(2005) Santiago, Spain
Peter Eisenman's mammoth hilltop cultural complex might not
be finished in 2005, but it will at least be partially open.
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more about Peter Eisenman at ArBITAT Architects
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Panama:
Bridge of Life / Museum of Diversity
Frank Gehry
(2006) Panama City, Panama
Even Central Americans can not escape the influence of Frank
Gehry, as this certainly worth sounding museum (with exhinitions
designed by Bruce Mau) gets another now vaguely familiar looking
building.
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more about Frank Gehry at ArBITAT Architects
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The
Architecture Foundation Building
Zaha Hadid
(2006) London, United Kingdom
Right by the Tate Modern, London gets its first real Zaha
Hadid building (the Mind Zone at the Millennium Zone in 2000
doesn't count).
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more about Zaha Hadid at ArBITAT Architects
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| BMW
Welt
Coop Himmelblau
(2006) Munich, Germany
Right next to the BMW Museum and within sight of the Olympic
Stadium.
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about Coop Himmelblau at ArBITAT Architects
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Denver
Art Museum Addition
Studio Daniel Libeskind
(2006) Denver, Colorado, United States
It's not all bad news for Studio Daniel Libeskind as the Denver
Art Museum will definitely be built.
Learn more about Daniel Libeskind at ArBITAT Architects
See pictures of the Denver Art Museum at ArBITAT Construction
Reports
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Museum
Residences
Studio Daniel Libeskind
(2006) Denver, Colorado, United States
Imagine not only living with a view of the new Daniel Libeskind
designed Denver Art Museum but also seeing that view from
your brand new Daniel Libeskind designed condominium.
Learn more about Daniel Libeskind at ArBITAT Architects
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Royal
Ontario Museum Addition
Studio Daniel Libeskind
(2006) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bloor Street literally won't know what hits it as the Royal
Ontario Museum crystalline addition opens in 2006.
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Wembley
Stadium
Foster and Partners
(2006) London, United Kingdom
Certainly not you father's Wembley,
the completely reimagined stadium sets a new standard when
it (re)opens in 2006.
Learn more about Sir Norman Foster at ArBITAT Architects
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BBC
Music Box
Foreign Office Architects
(2006) London,
United Kingdom
The White City is
about to get a little more interesting.
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Lower
Mill Estate
Will Alsop (among others)
(2006) Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Will Alsop is one of the architects
lending street credibility to this housing development and
nature reserve in England, an attempt to relive the magic
of the Case Study Houses in and around Los Angeles some 60
years ago.
Learn more about Will Alsop at ArBITAT Architects
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| Musee
du Quai Branly
Jean Nouvel
(2006) Paris, France
Jean Nouvel creates a home for the best native African, Asian,
Oseanic and American collection in France.
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more about Jean Nouvel at ArBITAT Architects
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| European
Court of Justice
Dominique Perrault
(2006) Kirchberg, Luxembourg
Images and text from the Kirchberg Online site.
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| Liege-Guillemins
TGV Station
Santiago Calatrava
(2006) Liege, Belgium
Liege will be twenty minutes closer
to Paris when its monstrous Santiago Calatrava rail station
is completed in 2006.
Learn more about Santiago Calatrava at ArBITAT Architects
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BYEN Concert Hall
Jean Nouvel
(2006) Ørestad
(Copenhagen), Denmark
A
small piece of a larger project, Jean Nouvel's fun Concert
Hall should open in Danish Broadcasting's new home in 2006.
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more about Jean Nouvel at ArBITAT Architects
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New
York Times Tower
Renzo Piano
(2006) New
York City, United States Across
the street from the Port Authority Bus Terminal and fifteen
(or so) blocks south of Norman Foster's brand new tower is
the new headquarters of the New York Times.
Learn more about Renzo Piano at ArBITAT Architects
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Science
Library
Frank Gehry
(2006)
Princeton,
New Jersey, United States Not
to be outdone by Bilbao, Los Angeles or MIT, Princeton University
finally gets a shiny, metal curving building to call its own.
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Art Museum
Coop Himmelblau
(2006) Akron, Ohio, United States
A small city south of Cleveland becomes
the home to the first Coop Himmelblau building in the United
States.
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more about Coop Himmelblau at ArBITAT Architects
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Arizona
Cardinal Stadium
Peter Eisenman
(2006)
Glendale,
Arizona, United States When
you think "NFL" and "Arizona", you naturally
think of Peter Eisenman.
Learn more about Peter Eisenman at ArBITAT Architects
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Water
Cube
PTW and Arup
(2006)
Beijing,
China If
the finished building ends up looking anything at all like
the renderings, then swimmers and divers at the 2008 Olympics
will find themselves inside the largest, square soap bubble
imaginable.
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Seattle
Art Museum Expansion
Allied
Works Architects
(Brad Cloepfil)
(2006) Seattle,
Washington, United States
Just
because your brand new museum addition is next to a landmark
Robert Venturi building doesn't mean it has to actually relate
to it in any meaningful way.
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Acropolis Museum
Bernard Tschumi
(2006) Athens, Greece
Originally conceived as an international guilt trip for the
2004 Olympics, the New Acropolis Museum will be the (possible)
future home of the Elgin Marbles should it ever actually be
built.
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| East
Asia Library at the University of California at Berkeley
Tod
Williams - Billie Tsien
(2006) Berkely, California, United States
One of the best places to see East Asian documents (outside
of East Asia) will be at Berkely's best new building.
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| Prewett
Library
Will Bruder
(2006) Antioch, California, United States
You'll have to go to the San Francisco Bay Area, or more accurately
east of it, to see the new Bruder library in Antioch.
Learn
more about Will Bruder at ArBITAT Architects
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Guthrie
Theatre
Jean Nouvel
(2006) Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Still flush from the opening of the Walker Art Center Addition,
Minnesotans have even more to brag about when the Guthrie's
new riverside home finally opens.
Learn
more about Jean Nouvel at ArBITAT Architects
See
pictures of the Guthrie Theatre at ArBITAT Construction Reports
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ICA
Boston
Diller, Scofidio + Renfro
(2006) Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The best view of the harbor will be
from the ICA's new waterfront home, if all of those computer
renderings are to be believed.
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more about Diller, Scofidio + Renfro at ArBITAT Architects
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| Glass
Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art
SANAA
(2006) Toledo, Ohio, United States
The Toldeo Museum of Art gets a brand new glass home for its
glass collection.
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Nicholas Grimshaw
(2006) Troy, New York, United States
RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) finally gets its EMPAC
(the Experimental Media Performing Arts Center).
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Public Library
Will Bruder
(2006) Portland, Maine, United States
Reach for the Stars in downtown Portland.
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more about Will Bruder at ArBITAT Architects
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Skirkanich
Hall at the University of Pennsylvania
Tod Williams - Billie Tsien
(2006) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Why
hire a local Philadelphia architect when there are so many
good ones from New York.
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Corporation
Frank Gehry
(2006) New York City, United States
New York City finally gets its first Frank Gehry building,
an all glass building on the West Side Highway, across the
street from Chelsea Piers and just a few blocks away (and
open years earlier) than Diller + Scofidio's Eyebeam, should
it ever get built.
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more about Frank Gehry at ArBITAT Architects
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Hearst
Corporation Tower
Foster and Partners
(2006) New York City, United States
Monster triangles finally come to Eighth Avenue in Norman
Foster's first Manhattan tower.
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more about Norman Foster at ArBITAT Architects
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See
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Museum of Contemporary Art
SANAA
(2006) New York City, United States
A new New Museum of Contemporary Art is coming to a site at
the very end of Prince Street at the Bowery, a stack of boxes
that promise to look at least slightly different than the
neighborhood.
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Library Expansion
Renzo Piano
(2006) New York City, United States
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more about Renzo Piano at ArBITAT Architects
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Museum
of Art and Design
Allied Works Architects
(Brad Cloepfil)
(2007) New York City, United States
The American Craft Museum changes its name and moves uptown
to Columbus Circle, destroying an funny little Edward Durell
Stone building in the process, one that is much more popular
in (near) death than it ever was in life.
Join in the debate at ArBITAT Discussion about whether or
not 2 Columbus Circle should be saved
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PATH
World Trade Center Station
Santiago Calatrava
(2007) New York City, United States
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a brand new two billion dollar
PATH Station.
Visit the NEW ArBITAT Views WTC Archive for all things downtown
Learn
more about Santiago Calatrava at ArBITAT Architects
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World
Trade Center Site Memorial
Michael Arad and Peter Walker
(2007) New York City, United States
The World Trade Center Site Memorial "Reflecting Absence"
opens after what promises to be years of debate and criticism.
Visit the NEW ArBITAT Views WTC Archive for all things downtown
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Fulton
Street Transit Center
Nicholas Grimshaw
(2007) New York City, United States
Imagining a brave new world where you can actually find your
way between a downtown A train and a Brooklyn bound
2 train.
Visit the NEW ArBITAT Views WTC Archive for all things downtown
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South Street
Santiago Calatrava
(2007) New York City, United States
Calatrava's other downtown building is a tall, thin tower
at the South Street Seaport- as tall as the Chase Manhattan
Bank Building but home to only eight damn expensive townhouses.
Learn
more about Santiago Calatrava at ArBITAT Architects
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Harlem
Park
Enrique Norton
(2007) New York City, United States
Enrique Norton's first Manhattan building is a 28 story Marriott
Courtyard Hotel in Harlem, adjacent to the Metro North 125th
Street Station.
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for African Art
Bernard Tschumi
(2007) New York City, United States
Further proof that New York City is getting interesting.
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Brooklyn
Childrens Museum
Rafael Viñoly
(2007) Brooklyn, New York, United States
Kids in Brooklyn need a museum designed by an internationally
known architecture firm just as much as anyone else.
Learn more about Rafael Viñoly at ArBITAT
Architects
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Dilworth
House Condominiums
VSBA - Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates
(2007) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Society Hill is in for a change. The Dilbert House looks older
than it is, it was built in 1957 by the mayor to prove how
nice that part of the city could be. Robert Venturi finally
gets another chance to build in Philadelphia by replacing
the building with new condominiums, on the condition that
someone he can get all of those community activists to somehow
change their minds.
Learn more about VSBA at ArBITAT Architects
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The
Ascent at Roebling's Bridge
Studio Daniel Libeskind
(2007) Covington, Kentucky, United States
The most interesting building in that part of Kentucky, Daniel
Libeskind's new apartment tower is at the opposite end (from
Cincinnati) of the still picturesque Roebling Bridge.
Learn more about Daniel Libeskind at ArBITAT Architects
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Art
Institute of Chicago Expansion
Renzo Piano
(2007) Chicago, Illinois, United States
On the Millennium Park side of the museum, the Art Institute
tries to reassert its prominence with a brand new addition
by Renzo Piano atop all those train tracks.
Learn
more about Renzo Piano at ArBITAT Architects
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Nelson-Atkins
Museum Expansion
Steven Holl
(2007) Kansas City, Missouri, United States
They're not really buildings, they're lenses.
Learn more about Steven Holl at ArBITAT Architects
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Tower Arts Center
Zaha Hadid
(2007) Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States
Frank Lloyd Wright's tower (and Bruce Goff's old offices)
gets some company when Zaha Hadid's new Arts Center opens
sometime around 2007.
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more about Zaha Hadid at ArBITAT Architects
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| Museum
of Contemporary Art
David Adjaye
(2007) Denver, Colorado, United States
Adjaye/Associates beat out Enrique Norton, Snøhetta
and Antoine Predock's son in a well publicized interview process
to design the new Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver.
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Contemporary
Jewish Museum
Studio Daniel Libeskind
(2007) San Francisco, California, United States
Between the Four Seasons Hotel and the (future) Mexican Museum,
the Contemporary Jewish Museum hides (but not very well) behind
a renovated power substation off of Mission Street.
Learn more about Daniel Libeskind at ArBITAT Architects
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| Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Renzo Piano
(2007) Los Angeles, California, United States
Be just like the LACMA directors and forget all about that
big, expensive, cool design by Rem Koolhaas and just
be happy that you got Renzo Piano to try and fix your big
scattered mess of a museum campus.
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more about Renzo Piano at ArBITAT Architects
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| Performing
Arts High School #9
Coop Himmelblau
(2007) Los Angeles, California, United States
On Grand Street just blocks away from the Disney Hall, the
Moneo Cathedral and Isozaki's MoCA, Coop Himmelblau is planning
to build an 87 Million Dollar (US) High School.
Learn
more about Coop Himmelblau at ArBITAT Architects
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Shanghai
World Financial Center
Kohn Pederson Fox
(2007) Shanghai, China
China and the world's tallest building, and also the only
one with that great big hole in it.
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Opera House
Snøhetta
(2007) Oslo, Norway
If
you can read Norwegian then you'll get more
from this link than just seeing a little tiny picture.
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Turner
Contemporary
Snøhetta
(2007) Margate, England, United Kingdom
Perched on an occassionally testy part of the North Sea, the
Turner Gallery has been designed to withstand the forces of
a 10,000 year storm. Just try to get there before the next,
unexpected 11,000 year storm hits.
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Sea
Center
Jean Nouvel
(2007) Le Havre, France
Jean Nouvel gives you a reason to actually go to Le Havre
with a swimming pool (and cultural facilities) at the edge
of the sea.
Learn
more about Jean Nouvel at ArBITAT Architects
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Birmingham
Public Library
Richard Rogers
(2007) Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Sky Hotel
Dominique Perrault
(2007) Barcelona, Spain
Like anyone needs another reason to visit Barcelona.
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Gallery of Toronto
Frank Gehry
(2007) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Homeboy Gehry designed a relatively understated remodeling
for the AGO in an appropriately understated city.
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more about Frank Gehry at ArBITAT Architects
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Centre
Pompidou
Shigeru Ban
(2007) Metz, France
No, not that Pompidou but rather a brand new one, this time
in Metz.
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East
River Esplanade
SHoP with Richard Rogers
(2008) New York City, United States
2008 seems like a safe guess as to when some of the new East
River Esplanade might be opened. It's aim is to make a series
of loud, unpleasant riverfront spaces beneath a highway just
a little more pleasant.
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Brooklyn
Library
Enrique Norton
(2008) Brooklyn, New York, United States
Not
associated with the other New York Library system, the new
library in Brooklyn will make people in Manhattan wish that
it was.
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| Brooklyn
Nets Development
Frank Gehry
(2008) Brooklyn,
New York, United States
Frank Gehry's city within a city on top of the LIRR Atlantic
Terminal opens and hopes to finally draw a crowd for the (Brooklyn)
Nets.
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more about Frank Gehry at ArBITAT Architects
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Theatre
for a New Audience
Frank Gehry
and Hugh Hardy
(2008) Brooklyn,
New York, United States
Next door to Enrique Norton's new library (and not that far
away from the Nets project) is a new theatre for a new audience,
with a big (straight) glass wall togive all those people outside
a reason to look in.
Learn
more about Frank Gehry at ArBITAT Architects
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| Moynihan
Penn Station
HOK / James Carpenter
(2008) New York City, United States
Amtrak
and
the David Childs glass potato chip may now be gone, but a
New Jersey Transit and a James Carpenter glass roof are in.
And honestly, anything beats the hellhole of the current Penn
Station. Anything.
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| New
Academic Building at Cooper Union
Thom Mayne
/ Morphosis
(2008) New York City, United States
2008 is as good a guess as any for the completition of Cooper
Union's new building, construction is scheduled to start in
2006.
Learn
more about Thom Mayne and Morphosis at ArBITAT Architects
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High
Line Park
Field Operations and Diller, Scofidio
+ Renfro
(2008) New York City, United States
It looks like the "Friends of the High Line" organization
is actually going to see something good come out of all of
those years of hard work. An abandoned freight rail line on
the far side of Manhattan is being transformed into a really
long, narrow park with designs by Field Operations, Diller,
Scofidio + Renfro and even Olafur Eliasson (a personal favorite).
Learn
more about Diller, Scofidio + Renfro at ArBITAT Architects
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| Trump
Chicago Tower
SOM
(2008) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Possibly a reason why people in Chicago who are not yet born
will grow up hating that one time short fingered vulgarian
Donald Trump.
Learn
more about everyone else at SOM at ArBITAT Architects
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| Winspear
Opera House
Foster and Partners
(2008) Dallas, Texas, United States
Someone let Norman Foster into the drawer with the red colored
pencils again.
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more about Sir Norman Foster at ArBITAT Architects
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Multiform
Theatre
Rem Koolhaas / OMA
(2008) Dallas, Texas, United States
You get the feeling that no matter how cool Rem's new Dallas
theatre might end up being, all the locals will still love
Norman Foster's building across the street better.
Learn
more about Rem Koolhaas and OMA at ArBITAT Architects
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| California
Academy of Sciences
Renzo Piano
(2008) San Francisco, California, United States
Renzo Piano's newly relocated California Academy of Sciences
gives you that long awaited reason to finally visit Golden
Gate Park.
Learn
more about Renzo Piano at ArBITAT Architects
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Sencity
Paradise
Behnisch & Behnisch
(2008) Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
It's an amusement park, it's a paradise. Especially if your
idea of paradise includes a grove of giant, artificial "trees"
that make life in that part of the desert a little less like
life in that part of the desert.
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| Canadian
Museum of Human Rights
Antoine Predock
(2008) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Winnipeg is pinning its hopes squarely on Antoine Predock
doing a good enough job to attract all those people who otherwise
would have no idea where Winnipeg even is.
Learn
more about Antoine Predock at ArBITAT Architects
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| European
Central Bank
Coop Himmelblau
(2008) Frankfurt, Germany
Two towers, a Grossmarkthalle and a landscraper equals
a new, competition winning European Central Bank.
Learn
more about Coop Himmelblau at ArBITAT Architects
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Ozeaneum
Strasland
Behnisch & Behnisch
(2008) Strasland, Germany
They might look like (really big) stones by the water's edge
(one is big enough to hold a whale), but they're really a
new oceanographic museum. An interesting internet site, one
that is probably more fulfilling to anyone who can still read
German.
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Mercati
Generali Redevelopment
Rem Koolhaas / OMA
(2008) Rome, Italy
If the idea od visiting a "leisure cloud" designed
by Rem Koolhaas doesn't make you want to go to Rome,
then I just don't know what will.
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more about Rem Koolhaas at ArBITAT Architects
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Contemporary
Art Center
Zaha Hadid
(2008) Rome, Italy
Maybe it will be ready by 2008, maybe not. If you can read
Italian you'll probably have a better idea than we do.
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more about Zaha Hadid at ArBITAT Architects
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Afragola High Speed Rail Station
Zaha Hadid
(2008) Naples, Italy
Naples high speed rail station makes that long trip up to
Rome and Florence just a little less long.
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more about Zaha Hadid at ArBITAT Architects
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Main
Pavilion / International Expo
Zaha Hadid
(2008) Zaragoza, Spain
If you don't believe that the people at the 2008 International
Exhibition are serious about their theme "Water and Sustainable
Growth", then just check out their (all Spanish) internet
site to see picture after picture of water. Or just wait until
2008 to go visit yourself and spend some time in Zaha Hadid's
competition winning main pavilion and see what you can find
out in person.
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more about Zaha Hadid at ArBITAT Architects
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| CCTV
Building
Rem Koolhaas / OMA
(2008) Beijing, China
Single handedly this building will either establish Beijing
as one of the world's contemporary architectural capitals
or will end all those other famous architects' hopes for ever
getting anything built in China. I hope this one somehow
gets built.
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more about Rem Koolhaas and OMA at ArBITAT Architects
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Books Building
Rem Koolhaas / OMA
(2008) Beijing, China
Even if the really daring CCTV Building doesn't get built,
the Beijing Books Building will still be overshadowed
by what might have been.
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more about Rem Koolhaas and OMA at ArBITAT Architects
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| Olympic
Stadium
Herzog and de Meuron
(2008) Beijing, China
A stadium that looks suspiciously like a birds nest (for a
really, really big bird) attempts to take all the attention
away from the actual games themselves.
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more about Herzog and de Meuron at ArBITAT Architects
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New
Antarctic Research Station
Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton Architects
(2008) Antarctica
The British Antarctic Survey held an architectural competition
for a new building and picked one on skis. A great advantage
in Antarctica, as global warming continues to effect whatever
ice shelf you might find yourself on.
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ArBITAT
FutureWatch: the only list of its kind online, at least until
someone else blantantly rips it off
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Lincoln
Center Renovations
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
(2009) New York City, United States
It's not your father's Lincoln Center anymore, at least around
West 65th Street. The first phase of (re)construction makes
Julliard, Alice Tully Hall and the Eero Saarinen designed
theatre a lot funkier than anyone ever expected.
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more about Diller Scofidio + Renfro at ArBITAT Architects
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Freedom
Tower/World Trade Center One
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill / David
Childs
(2009) New York City, United States
Nothing quite says "freedom" like a redesigned tower
with a solid, impregnable base.
Visit the NEW ArBITAT Views WTC Archive for all things downtown
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more about David Childs and SOM at ArBITAT Architects
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Drawing
Center / Freedom Center at the World Trade Center
Snøhetta
(2009) New York City, United States
One quarter of the "100% corner" and the only real
building (above ground) in the same block as the memorial,
it is scheduled to hold two museums that may (or may not)
be compatible.
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Joyce
Theatre / Signature Theatre at the World Trade Center
Frank Gehry
(2009) New York City, United States
Next to the Freedom Tower and diagonally across the street
from Santiago Calatrava's PATH Station, Frank Gehry tries
to prove that too much isn't enough.
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Parrish
Art Museum
Herzog and de Meuron
(2009) Water Mill, New York, United States
Herzog and de Meuron come to the Hamptons, an especially expensive
summer resort town at the far eastern end of Long Island.
They are scheduled to design a new building for the collection,
a small town or two over from its current home in Southampton.
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more about Herzog and de Meuron at ArBITAT Architects
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of Fine Arts Boston
Foster and Partners
(2009) Boston, Massachusetts, United States
It looks like parts of the Museum of Fine Arts won't look
completely different until at least 2009.
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more about Sir Norman Foster at ArBITAT Architects
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Fordham
Spire
Santiago Calatrava
(2009) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Santiago Calatrava makes everyone forget about that hulking
new Trump Building and instead lets them focus on an impossibly
thin, twisting residential tower way out by Navy Pier. Planned
as Chicago (and the United States') tallest building, it looks
to have the potential of being a stand out in a city of memorable
buildings.
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more about Santiago Calatrava at ArBITAT Architects
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Crystal
Bridges
Moshe Safdie
(2009) Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Designed by Moshe Safdie and funded by the people who own
Wal-Mart (a big box chain store that singlehandedly has destroyed
small town retail in the United States), the Crystal Bridges
museum (home to a relatively conservative art collection)
is built around and on top of a local pond.
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| Museum
of Natural History
Steven Holl
(2009) Los Angeles, California, United States
It may take a while but I'm sure it will be worth it.
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more about Sir Norman Foster at ArBITAT Architects
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Alaska
State Capitol Building
Thom Mayne
/ Morphosis
(2009) Juneau, Alaska, United States
Morphosis builds another US Government building (if they get
the funding), this one is home to the Alaska state government
in Juneau.
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more about Thom Mayne and Morphosis at ArBITAT Architects
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EPFL
Learning Center
SANAA
(Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa)
(2009) Lausanne, Switzerland
The "future of learning" is in Lausanne (and apparently
in French).
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London
Bridge Tower
Renzo Piano
(2009) London, United Kingdom
The tallest building on the South Bank, or the North Bank,
or anywhere in the UK.
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more about Renzo Piano at ArBITAT Architects
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| Middlehaven
Redevelopment
Will Alsop
(2009-2020) Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom
Will Alsop is in this one for the long haul, with phases of
development set for completition in 2009, 2015 and
2020.
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more about Will Alsop at ArBITAT Architects
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Casino
Knokke-Heist
Steven Holl
(2009) Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2009 is just a guess as to when Steven Holl's reworking of
the casino will be finished. The design is based on a Magritte
painting from the Magritte room in the original Leon Stynen
building, one that will be restored but completely overshadowed
in the new design.
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more about Sir Norman Foster at ArBITAT Architects
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Basel
Casino
Zaha Hadid
(2009) Basel, Switzerland
Not all that far away from the Vitra Fire House, Zaha Hadid
returns to Basel with the new city casino.
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more about Zaha Hadid at ArBITAT Architects
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Moscow
City Transport Terminal (MCTT)
Behnisch & Behnisch
(2009)
Moscow, Russia
More than just a train station, Behnisch and Behnisch are
creating a hotel, health club and retail space at the center
of the new "Moscow City" development.
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Mariinsky
Theatre II
Dominique Perrault
(2009) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Just like the Mariinsky I Theatre, well actually its nothing
like the
Mariinsky I Theatre.
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Grand
Egyptian Museum
Heneghan.Peng Architects
(2009) Giza, Egypt
The single greatest museum of Egyptian Antiquity (and no, I
don't mean the British Museum) is moving into a brand new, state
of the art, air conditioned museum (the museum in Cairo currently
avoids such luxuries) at the foot of the pyramids in Giza.
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FutureWatch: sure it's over budget, impractical, expensive to
maintain and hated by the local community- but at least the
renderings look cool
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WTC
Towers Two, Three and Four
Jean Nouvel, Norman Foster, Fumihiko
Maki
(2010-2012) New York City, United States
Starting in 2010, New York and the world can expect a tower
a year at the World Trade Center, should market conditions
allow.
Visit
the ArBITAT Views WTC Archive for all things downtown
Learn
more about Jean Nouvel at ArBITAT Architects
Learn
more about Sir Norman Foster at ArBITAT Architects
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Whitney
Museum Expansion
Renzo Piano
(2010) New York City, United States
Picking up where Rem Koolhaas and Michael Graves failed, Renzo
Piano tries to prove that tearing down a historic townhouse
or two won't lead to the end of the world as we know it.
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more about Renzo Piano at ArBITAT Architects
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London
Olympic Aquatic Center
Zaha Hadid
(2010-2012) London, United Kingdom
Suddenly London is looking like Zaha Hadid actually lives
there, with the Architecture Foundation and the new Aquatic
Center making London look as important as Bartlesville, Oklahoma
and Innsbruck.
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more about Zaha Hadid at ArBITAT Architects
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London
Olympic Stadium
Foreign Office Architects
(2010-2012)
London, United Kingdom
London has its Olympics and now it has its stadium.
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High
Speed Rail Station
Foster and Partners
(2010) Florence, Italy
The only place in Florence to catch a train to go see Zaha
Hadid's new station in Naples.
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more about Sir Norman Foster at ArBITAT Architects
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Tate
Modern Expansion
Herzog and de Meuron
(2012) London, United Kingdom
If you can remember that big blank wall on the other side
of the Turbine Hall, then you have a good idea of where the
Tate is planning to expand.
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more about Herzog and de Meuron at ArBITAT Architects
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Les
Halles Redevelopment
SEURA
(2012) Paris, France
Paris gets its new Les Halles, with a master plan by SEURA
and buildings (probably) designed by other people.
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Life Milan
Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Arata
Isozaki
(2014) Milan, Italy
At any other site and with any other neighbors, Arata Isozaki's
tower would look a lot less boring
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more about Zaha Hadid at ArBITAT Architects
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more about Daniel Libeskind at ArBITAT Architects
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Sagrada
Familia
Antoni Gaudí
(2040) Barcelona, Spain
A good hundred and fifty years after Gaudí got involved,
things finally wrap up sometime around 2040.
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Architects
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Arcosanti
Paolo Soleri
(2970) Cordes Junction, Arizona, United States
You get the feeling that 2970 is still a bit optimistic of
a completition date for Paolo Soleri's (one day) massive
desert utopian city.
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