Fwd: Hurrah! Comp Admission Celebrating SANAA, Pritzker Laureates

Photo: Dean Kaufman Celebrate SANAA's Pritzker Prize with Free Admission Wednesday, May 19 2010 | 12 - 6 PM Join us for free general admission and tours in honor of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Tokyo-based firm SANAA, architects of the New Museum on the Bowery and the 2010 Laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The Pritzker Prize is considered architecture's highest honor. Sejima is the second woman to receive this honor and Nishizawa, at forty-three years old, is the youngest winner in Pritzker history. The Museum will also open the seventh-floor Sky Room. Tour Schedule 12:30 PM Jonas Elding, Project Architect at SANAA for the New Museum and co-founder of the architecture firm Elding Oscarson. 1:30 PM Brett Schneider, Project Engineer at Guy Nordenson and Associates, Structural Engineer for both SANAA's Toledo Museum of Art and the New Museum. 2:30 PM Toshihiro Oki, Project Architect at SANAA for both the New Museum and the Derek Lam flagship store. 3:30 PM Maddy Burke-Vigeland, Principal at Gensler, Executive Architect for the New Museum. 4:30 PM Justin Davidson, architecture and classical music critic of New York magazine and winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in criticism for his work as the classical music and architecture critic at Newsday. 5:30 PM Florian Idenburg, Chief Project Architect at SANAA for the New Museum; co-founder of SO IL; and winner of the 2010 MoMA Young Architect Program. Tours can accommodate up to 30 visitors. If you are unable to attend this event, book a group tour focused on the Museum's architecture at http://www.newmuseum.org/learn/tours. Special thanks to:

newmuseum.org

Fwd: May 20 - Great Bridal Extravaganza

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Fwd: You're Invited!

Dear Friend, Please join us for a wine and cheese reception!   On Tuesday, May 25, 6pm, at Solar One, 23rd Street and the East River, we'll unveil our new and beautifully designed educational panels, with Council Member Dan Garodnick as our keynote speaker.   We hope you can be a part of our celebration!    This fun, festive, and free event will give you a chance to meet new and old friends, get a good gander at our handsome new panels, and watch the sunset on the East River while sipping your vino.         But wait....panels. What the heck is that all about?   How many of the 55,000 annual visitors to Stuyvesant Cove Park know that it's an all-native species park, an official Monarch Butterfly waystation, a place where you can watch Double-crested Cormorants dive for food in the East River, a body of water as rich in wildlife as the Great Coral Reef? And as they look out on the unobstructed views of the East River, which Melville wrote about in Moby Dick, how many know they can see the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island built in 1856, or Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Dutch, Scandinavian, and French farmers began working the land in the late 1600s?    Not many we suspect.   Solar One, through the generous support of the J.C. Kellogg Foundation, has created lively orientation and interpretative panels that will unlock the many secrets of our beloved Sty Cove Park.  A pet project of Solar One's former Park Manager, Melissa McDonald, these stainless steel panels took nearly a year to develop and manufacture, can be cleaned with a soy-based graffiti remover and are even bullet proof (don't get any ideas).    Thank you for all your support in the past. We're well aware that without you, we could not do our work.  And please come to our unveiling, where I can brag about our wonderful new educational tool, and how they'll help to make a visit to Stuyvestant Cove Park a transformative experience.    Kindest regards,   Chris Collins Executive Director Solar One   PS -- Please RSVP to Jim Ryan at Solar One: jim@solar1.org     Solar One  24-20 FDR Drive, Service Road East New York, NY 10013 (212) 505-6050

Fwd: You are invited ... STK's Two Year Anniversary Party May 20th

As a thank you for your support over the years, we wanted to give you the first opportunity to book a dinner table at STK's 2 Year Anniversary Party. Please call 310-659-3535 to book a dinner reservation, as they are by invitation only.   If you would like to simply come and enjoy the festivities, please RSVP to stklarsvp@togrp.com. (Each invitation allows one additional guest. Limited Capacity).