The launch of Urban Design Week at the BMW Guggenheim Lab. (AN/Stoelker)

The season got off to wet and windy start with the launch of Urban Design Week.  We started in Brooklyn and while the opening of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Jane’s Carousel wasn’t on the official agenda, there were plenty architecture world heavyweights in attendance. AN‘s Julie Iovine got there early to chat with the architect of the carousel’s pavilion, Jean Nouvel. Later, we popped over to the BMW Guggenheim Lab and with minutes to spare even got to hear a lecture over at the Neighborhood Preservation Center.

Check out the party pics after the jump