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Old Posted Nov 6, 2011, 5:41 PM
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Originally Posted by kpexpress View Post
We need a Bilbao effect on the waterfront, and not Gehry. I say open a huge international competition and invite progressive firms to bring a big idea to the waterfront - BIG.dk
Speaking of Bilbao, the Midway Museum is set to display their proposal for a public plaza on the Navy Pier (where their parking lot sits). Read the article for more details, but they did describe it this way:
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It would double as a public plaza and, as with the acclaimed Bilbao Museum in Spain, use “the power of an architectural feature to capture the imagination of the world and to define a city,”
Article link:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...x-moving-forw/

Sketch of design found in article:



Hopefully we'll get more info on Tuesday
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