Architecture
Edifice Complex
BY CHRISTINE WHITEHOUSE
"Architecture," as designer richard meier once observed, "takes a long time." The buildings that are to be unveiled during 2001 will have taken years, in some cases decades, from conception to completion. That's why the hot-today-but-not-tomorrow fads that typify the fashion and film worlds don't apply to architecture: each new building is in an iconoclastic class of one. And it's impossible to predict from an architect's previous work what any new project will be like.
If no particular architectural style stands out in 2001, one architect does. The Netherlands' Rem Koolhaas, who enjoys a reputation in architectural circles as the prince of perverse, is arguably the year's hottest architect. Better known as a writer and teacher than as a builder, he is due to complete three projects this year out of a long list of commissions. Besides Oporto's Casa de Musica, there's the Guggenheim Museum in Las Vegas and three Prada stores, in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Sure, 2000 had more than its share of landmark, millennium-minded projects. But it didn't get them all. Here are just a few you should be excited about in 2001.
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