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The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Winspear Opera House and Wyly Theatre are looking promising, with October openings planned for both. But this was a bad week elsewhere for the two buildings' architects: Foster + Partners for the opera house, Rem Koolhaas/OMA for the theater.
On Monday, Koolhaas' under-construction Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Beijing was destroyed by fire, apparently set off by illegal fireworks. (You'd think they'd design a big, high-visibility building like this to be a LITTLE more fire-resistant, wouldn't you?)
And a Foster-designed Harmon Hotel under construction in Las Vegas had to be clipped from the planned 49 stories to a stubby 28, after improperly installed rebar (the steel rods that hold concrete together) was discovered on 15 floors. Oops.
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