What If New York Stopped Knocking Down Buildings? Environmental ideas based on the ideas of the Pritzker Prize–winning architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, who recommend demolishing almost nothing.
Vienna – A Pleasure Doing Business
The Meeting Destination Vienna offers lots of unique advantages that are well worth talking about. The world’s most livable city sets the perfect stage for your meeting. A welcoming, multicultural ambience in the heart of Europe that unlocks new synergies.
As a meeting planner, you can take your cue from the typically Viennese blend of efficiency and enjoyment, while seeing for yourself how unparalleled infrastructure provides the foundations for success in the world’s greenest city. Draw on the expertise of the second-largest university city in the German-speaking countries and harness the creative potential offered by Vienna – ranked number 1 in the Smart City Index published by Roland Berger.
The wait is nearly over for the Pinault Collectionâs hotly anticipated museum in the French capital.
A giant concrete cylinder by Tadao Ando dominates the frescoed rotunda of the Pinault Collectionâs soon-to-open Bourse de Commerce site. (Photo: Marc Domage)
When museums finally reopen in Paris, art buffs can look forward to more than a refurbished Louvre, which has been undergoing renovations since lockdown measures closed its doors in October. Just a five-minute walk from the onetime royal palace is the new Bourse de Commerce â Pinault Collection, the latest project by French luxury-goods magnate François Pinault. A sister to Pinaultâs two private museums in Venice, it inhabits the Bourse de Commerce, a circular 19th-century commodities exchange topped by an iron-and-glass dome.
One-hundred and fifty collectors have the opportunity to acquire HENNESSY X.O decanters created by the great Frank Gehry…
No less an authority than Vanity Fair once called him “the most important architect of our age.” It was no exaggeration Frank Gehry, designer of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao among other masterworks, has more than lived up to the moniker. On his library shelf he has the pleasure of gazing upon the Pritzker Prize, the National Medal of Arts, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Légion d’honneur, among other achievements. And alongside them he can now place a decanter of one of the world’s finest cognacs, that is a sculptural masterpiece in its own right.