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The George Lucas museum is currently in the works, looking to house his large collection of art and memorabilia.
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas on Monday announced an architectural team for his controversial planned museum on Chicago's lakefront: an avant-garde Chinese designer whose credits include Toronto-area skyscrapers dubbed the "Marilyn Monroe Towers" and Chicago's Jeanne Gang, shaper of the undulating Aqua Tower here.
Ma Yansong, founder of the Beijing firm MAD Architects, will design the building for Lucas' Museum of Narrative Art. Gang, who heads Studio Gang Architects, will conceive the landscape around the building and design a pedestrian bridge linking the museum to Northerly Island, a peninsula east of the museum site.
The announcement of the star-studded team, a surprise given Lucas' penchant for traditional designs, has political implications for a project championed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. It would rise on 17 acres now occupied by parking lots between Soldier Field and McCormick Place.
If the architects produce a design gem that upgrades the landscape of the Museum Campus, the cluster of shoreline museums to which the Lucas Museum would belong, it could soften, or at least blunt, opposition.
Critics include open-space advocates threatening a lawsuit to block construction and Chicago Bears fans fuming that the museum will boot them from tailgating spots. Citing the opposition, a newspaper in San Francisco, where Lucas first intended to build the museum, last week labeled Chicago "the City of Cold Shoulders."
Conceptual designs are expected to be released later this year.
Lucas is promising to pay for the pedestrian bridge, which would have to be high enough to allow sailboats using Burnham Harbor to pass beneath. It won't come cheap. The price for a soon-to-be-built lakefront pedestrian bridge at 35th Street is pegged at more than $18 million.
Further sweetening the pot for Chicago, Lucas has selected another Chicago firm, VOA Architects, to be the museum's executive architect. While Ma and Gang focus on the broad creative strokes, VOA will be responsible for details like construction drawings. VOA has designed offices for Ariel Investments, whose president, Mellody Hobson, is Lucas' wife.
Lucas declined an interview request. In a prepared statement, he said: "We are bringing together some of the top architects in the world to ensure that our museum experience begins long before a visitor ever enters the building."
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One of the most remarkable periods in the history of Connecticut's evolving architectural landscape was the late 1940s to the late 1960s, when a group of Harvard-trained architects took up residence in the town of New Canaan and made modern history.
Known as "The Harvard Five," Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, Landis Gores, John Johansen and their teacher Marcel Breuer built homes for themselves and others that were nothing like the traditional clapboard Colonials with pitched roofs and many-paned windows that dotted the leafy town.
These architects took a gutsy new approach in their Mid-Century Modern designs, using broad horizontal lines, exposed steel beams, dramatic cantilevers, spare detailing and massive walls of glass that blurred the line between the inside and the great outdoors.
New Canaan quickly became the locus of Modern home design in this country. House tours were organized to benefit local charities and so the architects could show off their work but they created traffic jams in the sleepy town.
"This was an architecture that burst on the scene. And like the uninvited guest, many a resident wished for some forewarning," Jean Ely wrote in an article published in the New Canaan Historical Society Annual of 1967.
The unconventional designs were derided as "packing boxes," dismissed as "cracker boxes," and in a poem that ran in the local newspaper and set off a flurry of other versifying critics likened to "partially-opened bureau drawers set on steel posts and stanchions, an architecture as gracious as Sunoco service stations."
A couplet from one of the many replies: "They're lousing up the countryside with buildings most alarming, It isn't like New Canaan, where everything's been charming."
William D. Earls, a Wilton architect and author of "The Harvard Five in New Canaan" (W.W. Norton, 2006), said the young architects have to be given credit for taking chances with their careers and reputations.
Eliot Noyes, for example, who was the first of the five to settle in New Canaan and built his first house in 1947, used his own houses as "experiments, with little regard for conventional public opinion," Earls writes. The second home Noyes designed for his family, on Country Club Road, was built in 1955 around a central courtyard, with massive stone walls that evoke New England's classic stone walls. Bedrooms and bath are on one side of the house; the kitchen, dining room, living room and study on the other.
Some visitors were rather aghast that the family had to walk outside through the covered courtyard to get from one side of the house to the other.
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While big box retailers like Target have struggled to get a foothold in Canadian markets, demand for luxury retailers is strong and fuelling massive expansion projects at shopping malls across the country.
A construction crane towers over the expanding Sherway Gardens mall in Toronto on Friday, July 25. Photo by The Canadian Press
According to research by commercial real estate company CBRE Group, more luxury retailers are predicted to arrive in Canada, albeit at a more moderate pace compared to the flurry of activity seen in the last three years.
The aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and recession spurred a boom in retail development with foreign retailers, primarily American ones, turning their sights to Canada and construction hasnt kept up with demand.
There is little to no vacancy in highly sought after shopping centres and neighbourhoods, according to CBREs head researcher Ross Moore.
We just dont have empty retail to speak of. Across the country malls are generally full. If youre a Spanish or Italian or U.S. retailer, you are going to be put off by that. Supply is the key. Until we build more thats going to be a challenge.
The study, which measured the number and type of retailers that set up shop in 2013, found that luxury and high-end fashion brands constitute the majority of new arrivals in Canada.
Newcomers in the jewellery, designer fashion and accessories categories are driving the demand for additional retail space.
In the cities, where most of Canadas top income earners reside, construction cranes are busy piecing together the new extensions: In Vancouver, the Pacific and Oakridge Centres are getting bigger (adding 578,000-square-feet and 373,000-square-feet respectively); Calgarys Chinook Centre is expanding (140,000-square-feet) as well as Ottawas Rideau Centre (230,000-square-feet).
In Toronto, top-tier malls Yorkdale and Sherway Gardens are simultaneously undergoing multi-million dollar expansions to accommodate new anchor tenant, the upscale U.S. department store Nordstrom.
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FILE Demand for top flight office space in the Salt Lake Valley is growing, according to two reports detailing the Wasatch Front commercial real estate market during the second quarter of the year.
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SALT LAKE CITY Demand for top flight office space in the Salt Lake Valley is growing, according to two reports detailing the Wasatch Front commercial real estate market during the second quarter of the year.
Both CBRE and Coldwell Banker Commercial released their respective studies on trends in the office, industrial and retail real estate sectors. A common theme was increasing demand as the states fiscal potency continues to remain among the best in the country.
The Coldwell Banker mid-year 2014 report states that steady yet positive changes are expected to occur over the remainder of the year. Class A office space in the downtown central business district showed improved viability for tenants looking for enhanced amenities, new construction and better transportation.
Expect to see the downtown office market remain unchanged throughout the year while tenants look for upgrades and renovations to be made in Class B and C buildings, the report states.
Class A buildings have high quality standard finishes, state of the art systems, exceptional accessibility along with a definite market presence. Class B properties have finishes that are fair to good for the area and systems that are adequate. Class C buildings compete for tenants requiring functional space at rents below the average for the area.
The overall progress observed in the Salt Lake office market offers good reason for optimism through the remainder of 2014, explained Lew Cramer, Coldwell Banker Commercial president and CEO.
The report notes that the average asking lease rate for the Salt Lake office market registered at $21.85 per square foot, a slight hike of 1.4 percent from last years overall average. Of the three top segments, Class A space showed the highest rate gains climbing 2.4 percent from 2013 to a current average asking lease rate of $24.58 per square foot. The increase came despite upward movement in the overall vacancy rates in the office market.
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YORK York should be able to host Norris in the football opener Friday, Aug. 29, but what if its not?
The Home Field Advantage project at East Hill Field, the $600,000 complex of new bleachers, locker rooms and press box, will be ready or at least ready enough to host the Titans if everything falls into place between now and then.
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