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Tag Archives: Design Competition
Memorial news & views
George Weigel, the religious philosopher, replays the sad saga of the proposed memorial for Dwight Eisenhower in his essay “Ike Memorial No-Brainer,” from the National Review. Weigel urges Congress to dump Frank Gehry’s “Memorial To Myself” design that has already … Continue reading
And these are the winners!
Winners have been announced in the 2016 eVolo magazine skyscraper design competition, and they are real doozies. eVolo, which I’d never heard of, exists to discuss “the most avant-garde ideas generated in schools and professional studios around the world,” and … Continue reading
First critique in Pawtucket
Here is one of my earliest columns about a design competition, in this case to renovate an old department store into a visitors center for the City of Pawtucket. *** Promoting a Peerless Pawtucket December 4, 1992 IN PAWTUCKET, the … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture History, Art and design, Blast from past, Development, Preservation, Rhode Island, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Blackstone River Valley Heritage Corridor, Derek Bradford, Design Competition, Pawtucket, Peerless Building, Providence, Slater Mill
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Catesby Leigh’s WWI faves
The Washington critic Catesby Leigh has an excellent write-up of the World War I memorial designs in the National Review, “National World War I Memorial: The Judges Got It Wrong.” He mentions two proposals that were entered but for various … Continue reading
Finalists for WWI memorial
The jury in the design competition for a World War I memorial near the White House in Washington, D.C., has narrowed more than 350 entries down to a final five. One of them, arguably two, are classical, and already the … Continue reading
Shubow on WWI memorials
Here is the latest column in Forbes magazine by Justin Shubow, president of the National Civic Art Society, on the design competition for a monument to World War I: “First Look at the World War I Memorial Competition: All the … Continue reading
Hell and Helsinki
The 1,715 entries to the international design competition for a Guggenheim museum in Helsinki have been winnowed down to six, an entirely predictable six. I must admit I have not finished my cruise through the original entries. I have informed … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Other countries, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Design Competition, Finland, Guggenheim Helsinki, Helsinki, Museums
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Intruder at Gugg party
On Halloween I posted a link to all 1,700-plus entries, from 77 nations, in the international design competition for a proposed Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki. I scanned reams of thumbnails, hoping to find among them one that struck me as … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Other countries
Tagged art, Design Competition, Guggenheim Helsinki, Helsinki, Museums, Nir Buras
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Spookitecture! Oh my!
Today is the perfect day to post images of more than 1,700 entries for the proposed Guggenheim Helsinki museum, generated by an international competition, that have been released to the public. The exercise reminds me of a phenomenon that goes … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture
Tagged Design Competition, Guggenheim Helsinki, Helsinki
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