"It is time to create a more integrated cohabitation of landscape and architecture in the city," said Ken Smith, the landscape architect on the architectural team, which includes Mr. Schwartz, Rafael Viñoly and Shigeru Ban.
The architectural team 212box presents an idea that has practical possibilities.
Andrew Rowland, the English half of the Conti_Rowland architectural team, thinks the Phillipses made a great find.
Richard Llewhoyn-Davies, who led the architectural team responsible for the city's masterplan, described the future as indeterminate.
He has been studying football stadiums nationwide to help a yet-to-be-hired architectural team with his design ideas.
My Stanford colleague Zach Pozner, who is director of our architectural team, describes it as a glass jewel box.
So one concern for the architectural team, Mr. von Klemperer said, was ensuring that New Songdo would not be a sterile planned community.
Lachlan Oldaker, an Oklahoma-based equine specialist and key member of the architectural team, called The ARK "an enormous leap forward".
Typically, a client will commission an architectural team or design team, then engineers will become involved, explains Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council.
In the meantime, the museum has hired another architectural team -- James Stewart Polshek and Partners of New York and Tobey and Davis of Reston, Va.
We worked with them and their architectural team to bring in an interior design team that really made their finishes a little bit more upscale.
