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Updating a previous post on Thom Mayne's competition-winning proposal for Alaska's State Capitol, the Juneau Empire reports that the project is on hold. Juneau's Mayor Bruce Botelho cited finances and public disapproval of the designs as reasons for this decision.
The article also indicates that the city spent almost a million dollars of state money to fund the competition, money secretly appropriated that Governor Frank Murkowski demanded be given back to the state, which it did.
While the future of the project does not look bright, Botelho is quoted at the end of the article as saying, "...at the end of the day, the project needs to happen." Let's just hope it happens in a more open and honest manner and doesn't end in grumblings over old versus new.
(via Archinect)
The article also indicates that the city spent almost a million dollars of state money to fund the competition, money secretly appropriated that Governor Frank Murkowski demanded be given back to the state, which it did.
While the future of the project does not look bright, Botelho is quoted at the end of the article as saying, "...at the end of the day, the project needs to happen." Let's just hope it happens in a more open and honest manner and doesn't end in grumblings over old versus new.
(via Archinect)
Sometimes, it's nice to live in a city where the mayor doesn't give a shit about public disapproval.
ReplyDeletetoo bad such an innovative inspirational idea has to be shelved
ReplyDeleteI was gonna take a trip to Alaska just to gawk at the most innovative of the typically bland, but classical truthful and noteworhty in their own right, capitols
Lincoln's capitol is pretty nice - I went there two years ago on a class trip. The town is pretty vibrant too...
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong, I'm all for contemporary architecture. Plus I prefer something like this than a classical russian facade.
ReplyDeleteBut sometimes some of the contempory projects like this seem to start with an interesting form, but then only add a more or less 2d facade. There doesn't seem to be much 3d articulation or refinement to the original form.