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Morphosis Out from Grand Ave Team

By Eric Richardson
Published: Wednesday, April 20, 2005, at 05:00PM

Architectural Record News today reports that Thom Mayne's firm Morphosis is off the Grand Ave team.

It was after spending time reviewing initial concepts, as well as comments from public and team meetings that Related came to the conclusion that Morphosis wasn

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Brady Westwater on April 20, 2005, at 09:37PM – #1

Thom's being dropped is old news - it was done months ago. Related spent a lot of time - and money - trying to get him to understand what they needed, but Mayne just could not produce pedestrain friendly designs. He is still in his art object sitting on a pedestal phase. Frank Gehry, however, will do a much better job now that he has moved past that phase himself.


Eric Richardson (@blogdowntown) on April 20, 2005, at 10:32PM – #2

Ah, good to know I'm just behind on hearing things. -e;


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Connie on April 20, 2005, at 11:10PM – #3

I sure hope the person quoted below doesn't end up dominating the project, and as far as I know Related still considers his firm to be the lead designer:

----> DAVID M. CHILDS of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill may be the most powerful architect in New York. But not even he considers the majority of his buildings first-rate architecture.

"I know a lot of what I've designed is not 'A' work," he said recently over lunch. "But my role was different. I wanted to raise the level of everyday development as much as I could." <------



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