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ArBITAT
FutureWatch: Bigger, Taller, Wildly Over Budget
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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.
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more about SOM and Deavid Childs at ArBITAT Architects
See
pictures of 7 WTC at ArBITAT Construction Reports
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de
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.
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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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| Leslie
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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ArBITAT
FutureWatch: Proving that everyone needs at least one Frank
Gehry building to feel complete (go
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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.
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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.
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| DR
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.
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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.
Learn more about Frank Gehry at ArBITAT Architects
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| Akron
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.
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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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| New
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.
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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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| EMPAC
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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| Portland
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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| Interactive
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
pictures of the Hearst Tower at ArBITAT Construction Reports
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| New
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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| Morgan
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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Watch
big name architects come to the rescue at ArBITAT FutureWatch
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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
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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.
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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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| Museum
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.
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