The LMDC has announced the short lists for the two most important comissions in New York currently unawarded. Too bad this information isn’t anywhere on their site. The Architect’s Newspaper brings us the details because Kevin Rampe is probably busy getting tips from Dick Cheney on how to dodge asbestos liability.
It’s a good list, not a great list, which is about what could be expected. There are some interesting surprises, and some obvious nods. OMA is interesting, since Rem was all talking big about what waste of time the WTC site was before all his USA commissions went the way of Richard Grasso. Two firms made both lists: Polshek and Moshe Safdie, but ArchPaper doesn’t provide info (if it is obtainable) on how many teams pursued both projects (which required seperate RFP’s).
FOR THE MUSEUM building (International Freedom Center and Drawing Center), the short list is: Pei Cobb Fried Robbrecht en Daem (with Pasanella + Klein Stolzman + Berg) Shigeru Ban + Frei Otto with Dean Maltz Snøhetta
FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS building (Joyce Dance Center and Signature Theater), the short list is: Bing Thom with Meyer/Gifford/Jones Gehry Partners (no site) OMA (with LMN) Rafael Vinoly Studio Libeskind Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen with Adamson Associates TEN H3 Hardy Collaboration Tod Williams & Billie Tsien
Smart money is on Vinoly for the latter. His deep pockets — for an archtiect — and simmering anger at being passed over makes this an easy way to distract him and create some more of that wonderful collaborative spirit we saw after Childs & Libeskind had their shotgun wedding.
For the former, Polshek would seem to be the leader, but given he’s wrapping up the Clinton Library, the selection is before the election, we have a Republican Mayor and Governor, and the Chair of the Freedom Center is a big Bush backer, that pretty much scotches his run. Pei Cobb Fried are doing the Goldman Sachs tower across the street (they are going to actually use this one, they swear), so that dampens their chances. I’ll take the dark horse, Snohetta, since the Freedom Center will be such a fiasco of progamming, they’ll need a convenient sacrificial lamb — all the better if they speak broken English when you blame them.
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The LMDC has announced the short lists for the two most important comissions in New York currently unawarded. Too bad this information isn’t anywhere on their site. The Architect’s Newspaper brings us the details because Kevin Rampe is probably busy getting tips from Dick Cheney on how to dodge asbestos liability.
It’s a good list, not a great list, which is about what could be expected. There are some interesting surprises, and some obvious nods. OMA is interesting, since Rem was all talking big about what waste of time the WTC site was before all his USA commissions went the way of Richard Grasso. Two firms made both lists: Polshek and Moshe Safdie, but ArchPaper doesn’t provide info (if it is obtainable) on how many teams pursued both projects (which required seperate RFP’s). FOR THE MUSEUM building (International Freedom Center and Drawing Center), the short list is:Pei Cobb Fried
Robbrecht en Daem (with Pasanella + Klein Stolzman + Berg)
Shigeru Ban + Frei Otto with Dean Maltz
Snøhetta FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS building (Joyce Dance Center and Signature Theater), the short list is:
Bing Thom with Meyer/Gifford/Jones
Gehry Partners (no site)
OMA (with LMN)
Rafael Vinoly
Studio Libeskind
Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen with Adamson Associates
TEN
H3 Hardy Collaboration
Tod Williams & Billie Tsien Smart money is on Vinoly for the latter. His deep pockets — for an archtiect — and simmering anger at being passed over makes this an easy way to distract him and create some more of that wonderful collaborative spirit we saw after Childs & Libeskind had their shotgun wedding. For the former, Polshek would seem to be the leader, but given he’s wrapping up the Clinton Library, the selection is before the election, we have a Republican Mayor and Governor, and the Chair of the Freedom Center is a big Bush backer, that pretty much scotches his run. Pei Cobb Fried are doing the Goldman Sachs tower across the street (they are going to actually use this one, they swear), so that dampens their chances. I’ll take the dark horse, Snohetta, since the Freedom Center will be such a fiasco of progamming, they’ll need a convenient sacrificial lamb — all the better if they speak broken English when you blame them.