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Question Please provide a cross section graphic at the site location that indicates the relationship of the building roof projection to the site (if any).
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Question Why is the City asking in E-31 that artists not engage in a boycott(s) of a foreign state? Why is that language relevant to the scope of services? Does the City support free speech as provided for in the US Constitution? How does the City justify this attempt to prevent speech of individuals as a term of service? How does it rectify this requested term of service with the US Constitution?
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Question Please indicate the site location on the digital representation on page 4 of the qualifications content.
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Question Why is the City requesting artists rights be terminated upon the death of the artist?
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Question Why is the City, through the proposed contract language, asking artists to wave their VARA rights, rights that apply specifically to this scope of service?
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Curtis responds to claim by Ocasio-Cortez
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80 South Street Tower, Calatrava 2005
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© David Curtis 2005
Guggenheim Forensic
Posted: November 29, 2018 Filed under: design | Tags: design Leave a comment
I visited the corpse
of the Rem Koolhaas designed Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas over the (native american genocide) weekend.
I was the associate in charge of the project for the executive architect TSA of Nevada (the Stubbins Associates) in 2001.
The original version of this story was censored by Archinect.
Archinect decided to censor me to appease Miles Jaffe and whomever else had their tit in a bind over my writing there.
The internal truss (fully clad, both sides in 1/2″ corten) was fully suspended from the underside of the hotel tower. It has been reconfigured, if not completely removed.
Retail shops have been inserted into what is left of the corten shell.
A Hugo Boss store at the north end features one of the remaining exposed corten partitions. The remnant of the stone fireplace from the previous VIP lounge remains, a feature element in the new store.
On the exterior, nearly the entire work has been obscured by vinyl supergraphics of celebrity chefs.
Near the porte cochere, some corten remains visible as does a sliver of window, the laminated glass pin at the partition foot. The former, full height sliding glass and steel door is visible. A smaller, perhaps exit door has been cut in to it.
The (3) former rotating display walls are gone.
Vestige end display cases of glass occupy what would have been the ends of the rotating walls when paused in the East West direction.
One of the cases features a head shot of Grace Hartzel, perhaps a highlight of the remodeled interior.
On a positive note: The removal of the fully suspended East truss partition likely avoids an eventual structural collapse that the corten might have enabled. See also: rust is a thing.
And no, I did not work on this remodel.
I worked on the former museum from schematic design through construction admin. I flew to Rotterdam to direct the completion of the construction documents. I sketched all the roof details on the plane in pencil. I still have them.
I also served as a Gallery Educator for the Museum under Anita Getzler.
© David Curtis 2018
