"commission the project" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to the action of hiring someone to carry out a project. For example, "The company decided to commission the project to a well-known design firm."
Under Umberto Fedeli, a former chairman of the commission, the project began in 1995 as part of the wider refurbishment.
In contrast to the dome's figure of 12m, and to the relief of the millennium commission, the project has a comparatively modest target for its first year of proper opening of 750.000 visitors, which would make it Cornwall's most popular attraction, ahead of Land's End.
The Friends of the National Zoo originally commissioned the project, which uses song and dance to deliver an environmental message.
In March, the general director of Dozhd, the progressive Internet television station that had commissioned the project, decided the Yevtushenko poem was too insulting to Mr. Medvedev.
"People have been hugging them," said Nicholas Baume, director of the Public Art Fund, which commissioned the project with Tishman Speyer, Rockefeller Center's primary owner.
The four works — in one hourlong program — will have their premieres on Aug. 14 at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Mass., which co-commissioned the project.
A music review on Monday about "Massive Attack V Adam Curtis," a concert and film at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan, omitted two organizations that commissioned the project.
Chad Phillips, Kidrobot's creative director, who commissioned the project, described it as "decoration through technology," but added, "you can't use them as a primary light source".
In commissioning the project, Princeton also sought a building that was distinctive yet in harmony with existing architecture, according to Mark Burstein, executive vice president of the University.
The animatronic diorama, which depicts a prisoner being tortured, was conceived by the artist Steve Powers and unveiled over the weekend at the Coney Island Arcade by Creative Time, which commissioned the project as part of its "Democracy in America" series.
