A New NYC Anthem
After a great summer spent in Maine and Canada we are back at the newspaper ready to soldier through the New York media wars. This week we were inspired by our fair city all over again. In case you missed the VMA awards and all the brewhaha about Kanye West, check out Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind! Jay-Z and Alicia Keys rocked the house. I suggest this as New York’s new City song. It could play on the jumbotron in Times Square and at Yankees stadium. The black and white NYC fly-over images at the back of the stage were incredible. The designer, photographer, videographer should win awards for this. Check it out.
10 Things to See…
- Gaasitoru Gas Pipe, Estonian Exposition
Fresh back from Venice, Christine Murray has recommendations for those planning to visit the Venice architecture biennale.
And the raves continue:
- Arma dei Carabinieri
Thanks to Kristen Richards and ARCHNEWSNOW, she is able to let us know over here at A/N that yes all the hard work, cat fights, long hours, egos might have paid off for the US Pavilion crew. As the reviews come in we will keep them coming. We promise not to put lipstick on a pig about the truth and will post yay’s and nay’s.
The American pavilion – with the best exhibition it has hosted in years, from which celebrity architects are notably absent – showcases 16 projects from all over the country that illustrate how this absence of the state has fostered a roll-up-your-sleeves, do-it-yourself culture, which is proving fruitful and productive in local architecture.
Visions of architecture, practical and inspired, International Herald Tribune
Q: And who is this?
Pamela Puchalski and Greg Wessner
We saw many faces at the more then 600+ celebration on Friday night at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum for the celebration of the US Pavilion. Thanks to the support of Ted Hathaway and Susan Trimble of OldCastle Glass the party was a great success.
A: Pamela Puchalski…she does exist and is still in London. Great to see you Pamela.
VILLA FOSCARI (“La Malcontenta”)
Last night we were part of the “special crowd” that was invited to Villa Foscari for the unveiling of Zaha’s newest sculpture for Villa Foscari, PALLADIO’S 500TH ANNIVERSARY.
Villa Foscari is a patrician villa in Mira, near Venice, northern Italy, designed by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio. It is also known as La Malcontenta, a nickname which it received when the spouse of one of the Foscari’s was locked up in the house because she allegedly didn’t live up to her conjugal duty. Faces seen, Aric Chen, Laurie Beckleman, Robert Rubin, Joseph Giovannini, Charles Refro, Diana Darling, Ben Prossky (Columbia Univ.), Mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, Liz Diller, Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, and Nigel Coates.
Bridge To Nowhere
Taiwanese Group Interbreeding Field are making bridge follies all around the Giardini.
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