2012?
NEW YORK'S OLYMPIC VILLAGE
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Designs on Display for Public Review and Comment
NYC2012, the committee leading New York's bid for the Olympic Games in
2012, will unveil five designs by the finalists in NYC2012's Olympic Village Design Study for the proposed Olympic Village at Queens West on:
Wednesday, March 10th
Presentation: Noon - 1 PM (EST)
Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal
East 42nd Street-Entrance through Main Concourse
The finalists are: Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark), MVRDV (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Morphosis (Santa Monica, California),
Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects (New York, New York), and Zaha Hadid Architects (London, United Kingdom).
This round of the innovative design study inaugurates a public review period starting with the exhibit at Vanderbilt Hall, that will be open through March 25th. The designs will also be displayed on www.nyc2012.com.
Members of the public are urged to vote for their favorite designs online.
Morphosis (Thom Mayne) won the 2012 village design competition (Bloomberg will announce 5/26). That means the firm will move forward on developing the design for the final NYC submission. The idea is, even if we do not get the Olympics (I think I can say we agree that Olympics + NYC = Bad? And Big Jimmy says no way it will happen), that the plan will be so tempting that developers will invest in the site regardless. Not to mention that the plan will already have been developed at a cost to the City, this saves developers about half their expense anyway.
I liked Morphosis proposal the best of the bunch... but I didn't really like any of them too too much.
Crain's.
I was wrong, according to Bloomberg it is being privately funded.
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- dave 9-20-2001 7:10 pm
NEW YORK'S OLYMPIC VILLAGE
***
Designs on Display for Public Review and Comment
NYC2012, the committee leading New York's bid for the Olympic Games in
2012, will unveil five designs by the finalists in NYC2012's Olympic Village Design Study for the proposed Olympic Village at Queens West on:
Wednesday, March 10th
Presentation: Noon - 1 PM (EST)
Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal
East 42nd Street-Entrance through Main Concourse
The finalists are: Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark), MVRDV (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Morphosis (Santa Monica, California),
Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects (New York, New York), and Zaha Hadid Architects (London, United Kingdom).
This round of the innovative design study inaugurates a public review period starting with the exhibit at Vanderbilt Hall, that will be open through March 25th. The designs will also be displayed on www.nyc2012.com.
Members of the public are urged to vote for their favorite designs online.
- selma 3-08-2004 6:58 pm [add a comment]
Morphosis (Thom Mayne) won the 2012 village design competition (Bloomberg will announce 5/26). That means the firm will move forward on developing the design for the final NYC submission. The idea is, even if we do not get the Olympics (I think I can say we agree that Olympics + NYC = Bad? And Big Jimmy says no way it will happen), that the plan will be so tempting that developers will invest in the site regardless. Not to mention that the plan will already have been developed at a cost to the City, this saves developers about half their expense anyway.
I liked Morphosis proposal the best of the bunch... but I didn't really like any of them too too much.
- selma 5-26-2004 3:09 am [add a comment]
Crain's.
I was wrong, according to Bloomberg it is being privately funded.
- selma 5-27-2004 1:56 am [add a comment]