The California architectural firm Morphosis, whose design concept featured a controversial egg-shaped dome, on Tuesday won the competition to create a new state Capitol in Juneau. From the Anchorage Daily News
it is more or less an igloo dome. but perhaps calling that would make the project sound
post- modern and simplistic.
i'd like to see the conceptual plainclothsmen to pick on it.
i am glad to see he is got the comission. it is just a matter of time he will get the pritzker.
quote from that article http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030205/loc_20050302001.shtml
""All the great civilizations in the world - Rome and Greece - have been through the same process," Mayne said. "The competition is a way to get Alaskans to define who they are and talk about it in cultural terms."
Juror Ed Feiner, chief architect of the U.S. General Services Administration, said Mayne is practical, innovative and optimistic."
yet in the morphosis thread, archinecters criticize lack of practicality?
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they could incorporate an Observatory into the dome design, except that it's too close to city lights :-)
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it is more or less an igloo dome. but perhaps calling that would make the project sound
post- modern and simplistic.
i'd like to see the conceptual plainclothsmen to pick on it.
i am glad to see he is got the comission. it is just a matter of time he will get the pritzker.
More here.
quote from that article
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030205/loc_20050302001.shtml
""All the great civilizations in the world - Rome and Greece - have been through the same process," Mayne said. "The competition is a way to get Alaskans to define who they are and talk about it in cultural terms."
Juror Ed Feiner, chief architect of the U.S. General Services Administration, said Mayne is practical, innovative and optimistic."
yet in the morphosis thread, archinecters criticize lack of practicality?
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they could incorporate an Observatory into the dome design, except that it's too close to city lights :-)
check the AK local-content arch
mmenseArchitects site
http://www.mmense.com/bedr1.html
{sigh}Ob-yaddayadda {/sigh}
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