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☆ Match Made in Venice: Tadao Ando and Zeng Fanzhi
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Andrew Maerkle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An American institution sponsors an exhibition by a Chinese artist in collaboration with a Japanese architect at a centuries-old Venetian building. This is the kind of far-flung constellation that can only come together during the Venice Biennale, when the historic Italian lagoon city turns into contemporary art’s grandest stage. While the Biennale itself is famed for its national pavilions, scores of collateral exhibitions, some organized independently, proliferate. Ando sculpts intricate yet airy interiors, enlivened by dramatic voids or unexpected lightwells, out of slabs of concrete. And the matchmaker is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is sponsoring a collaborative exhibition in the impressive space of the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in the Cannaregio district of Venice.

Persons: Zeng Fanzhi, Tadao Ando, Pritzker, Ando, “ Zeng Fanzhi Organizations: Venice Biennale, Angeles County Museum of Art, Scuola, della Misericordia Locations: American, Venice, Beijing, Osaka, della, Cannaregio

☆ OpenAI opens its first Asia office in Japan as a 'first step' in its commitment to the region
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Sumathi Bala | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI has opened its first Asian office in Tokyo, Japan as the ChatGPT developer aims to expand its global presence. As part of the move, the company has appointed Tadao Nagasaki as the new president of OpenAI Japan, to head commercial and market engagement efforts. Altman met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last year and reportedly mentioned he was looking into opening a new office in Japan. The company is backed by Microsoft and has a private market valuation that's reportedly approaching $100 billion. This is the "single largest investment in its 46-year history in Japan, also the site of its first international office," Microsoft said.

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, Tadao, Altman, Fumio Kishida Organizations: Toyota, Microsoft Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Tadao Nagasaki, OpenAI Japan

☆ Why Bulgari and Armani are building designer homes in Dubai
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Armani… Bulgari… Versace…The list reads like the directory of a designer shopping mall. It has more luxury branded residences than anywhere else in the world, knocking South Florida, the sector’s longstanding leader, off the top spot last year. On average, branded residences command a 30% premium compared to similar-quality properties in the same location. The deposits for off-plan purchases can often amount to more than $1 million for prime real estate. “There is a big appetite from both buyers as well as the developers, to continue with branded residences,” said Piro.

Persons: CNN — Armani, Bulgari … Versace, Savills, ”, Patricia Viel, ” ACPV, Bulgari, Viel, Faisal Durrani, Knight Frank Middle, Knight Frank’s, Knight Frank, it’s, Durrani, Rosa Piro, Tadao Ando, Arada, Piro, Armani, Giorgio Armani, Arada Durrani Organizations: CNN, Villa, ACPV, Neverending, Bulgari, Michelin, Resorts, Knight, United Arab, “, Armani, Jumeirah Locations: Dubai, South Florida, Milan, there’s, Aspen, Miami, Algarve, Bahamas, United Arab Emirates

NEW YORK (AP) — The first thought that comes to mind when you enter the Balloon Museum for the “Let’s Fly” exhibit is the massive scale of the art. But it's the adventure of a theme park attraction that can awaken the childlike wonder in all of us. “The idea of Balloon Museum is to create a space where artists meet the public and they meet by meaning everybody from the smallest to the oldest,” said Smigla-Bobinski. While the exhibition varies in content from each city the Balloon Museum takes up residency, there’s one constant, Balloon Street, where guests can be fully immersed and become part of the installations. Premiering in Rome in 2020, the Balloon Museum has toured through Europe with its curation focused on inflatable art installations.

Persons: That's, Chiara Caimmi, ” Caimmi, Cyril Lancelin, Sir Isaac Newton, Hyperstellar ”, Karina Smigla, ”, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Michael Shaw, Tadao Organizations: Museum, Balloon Museum, Tadao Cern Locations: New York City, Vegas, Polish, Lithuanian, Lithuania, Rome, Europe

☆ An amateur astronomer caught one of the brightest fireballs ever seen on Jupiter. Watch the rare video footage.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Maiya Focht | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

About 14 seconds into the video below, you can see a bright flash appear in Jupiter's southern hemisphere. AdvertisementAdvertisementOne of the brightest, biggest Jupiter fireballs ever recordedKo Arimatsu, an astronomer at Kyoto University, confirmed to The New York Times that there were six reports of this flash on August 28. AdvertisementAdvertisementA fragment of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impacts Jupiter’s night side in 1994. Jupiter is the 'vacuum cleaner of the solar system'As the largest planet in our solar system, by far, Jupiter has a powerful gravity that pulls in comets and asteroids. In fact, Jupiter's appetite for asteroids and comets has earned it the nickname "vacuum cleaner of the solar system," according to NASA.

Persons: Tadao Ohsugi, It's, Arimatsu, Shoemaker, Levy, Peter Vereš, NASA's OSIRIS, NASA's, Leigh Fletcher Organizations: Service, Kyoto University, The New York Times, TNT, NASA, ESA, Space Science Institute, Jupiter, JPL Arimatsu, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, NASA's Goddard Space Flight, University of Arizona, University of Leicester, Times Locations: Wall, Silicon, Japan, Boulder, Colo, Siberia

☆ A Tadao Ando-Designed Penthouse in Manhattan Asks $22 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Katherine Clarke | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones, ando Locations: manhattan

☆ Beyoncé and Jay-Z Join the $100 Million Home Club
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Beyoncé and Jay-Z, no strangers to flashy real estate deals, reportedly upgraded from their $88 million mansion in Bel Air, Calif., to a $200 million Malibu property last month, officially erasing the line between going big and going home. The sale marks the most expensive residential real estate deal in California history — but not the most expensive in American history. That would be the $238 million sale in January 2019 of an unfinished penthouse on Central Park South, in Manhattan, to the billionaire hedge fund tycoon Kenneth C. Griffin. Still, California can claim 10 of the 20 most expensive property sales ever in the United States, according to data compiled by Jonathan Miller of Miller Samuel appraisals. Beyoncé and Jay-Z, who have bought and sold multimillion-dollar homes in Miami, New Orleans and the Hamptons, are now in a rarefied club of celebrities who own properties worth $100 million or more.

Persons: Beyoncé, Tadao Ando, William Bell Jr, Kurt Rappaport, Rappaport, Kenneth C, Griffin, Jonathan Miller, Miller Samuel Organizations: Calif, Malibu, TMZ, Westside Estate Agency, Park, Hamptons Locations: Bel Air, California, Manhattan, , California, United States, New York, Florida, Connecticut, Miami , New Orleans

☆ Beyoncé and Jay-Z smash California real estate records with their purchase of a $200 million concrete compound overlooking the ocean
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The $200 million mansion was created by architect Tadao Ando, who also designed a home for Kanye West. The concrete compound comes with a 40,000 square foot residence and pool just steps from the beach. The concrete compound features an infinity pool just steps from the Pacific ocean. A sky view of 27712 Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, purchased by Beyonce and Jay-Z in May of 2023 for $200 million. The 40,000 square foot residence was designed by iconic Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

Designs by Karl Lagerfeld are displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute exhibition, "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty," in New York on April 29, 2023. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)Celebrated tonight at the Met Gala will be the opening of the Costume Institute's exhibition "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty," curated by the Institute's Andrew Bolton. Looks designed by Karl Lagerfeld on display during the press preview of the Costume Institute's exhibition, "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty," on May 1, 2023. "The serpentine line signifies Lagerfeld's historicist, romantic, and decorative impulses, while the straight line indicates his modernist, classicist, and minimalist tendencies." The exhibition will be open for public viewing May 5 through July 16, 2023.

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