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Updating a previous post on Thom Mayne's competition-winning proposal for Alaska's State Capitol, the Juneau Empire reports that the project is on hold. Juneau's Mayor Bruce Botelho cited finances and public disapproval of the designs as reasons for this decision.

The article also indicates that the city spent almost a million dollars of state money to fund the competition, money secretly appropriated that Governor Frank Murkowski demanded be given back to the state, which it did.



While the future of the project does not look bright, Botelho is quoted at the end of the article as saying, "...at the end of the day, the project needs to happen." Let's just hope it happens in a more open and honest manner and doesn't end in grumblings over old versus new.

(via Archinect)