Sakura Matsuri @ BBG

The cherry blossom esplanade at Brooklyn Botanical Garden will have all its 220 cherry trees in full blossoming mode! Lovely place to celebrate spring and appreciate nature’s beauty (if you have no allergies…).

Sakura Matsuri is a “NYC’s “Rite of Spring” event, marking its 27th year with over 60 events and performances celebrating Japanese culture and the blossoming of BBG’s cherry trees”. May 3–May 4, 2008, is when it is all happening – a great chance to experience nature/cultural event.

This is a beautiful timelapse video – created by Dave Allen, BBG’s Web Manager, from over 3,000 digital photos, one taken every 3 minutes from April 18 to April 26, 2008, of Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s famed Cherry Walk.

Prospect Park – Proposed $70 million Lakeside Center

Read more about it.

The proposed $70 million Lakeside Center would be built in Prospect Park to replace its current Wollman Rink. The facility will be designed by architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and be a two-level 36,000-square-foot building. It will include two ice-skating rinks and do extensive work to restore the original park landscape torn up when Robert Moses built the current rink. The current renderings are described as “very preliminary designs” there will be a series of public meetings before there’s a final version.

Here are the beautiful renderings:

Saturday help

Thanks for all the great feedbacks guys! I have posted few links on the sidebar that might be useful for us to check it out… and it is a growing list.

The first year students have been working on a model of Red Hook, Brooklyn (at 64 scale) since last week. We have already spent $900+ according to our materials committee! And still counting. Well, this model unlike anything we have done so far, does take up half the open spaces available in our studio. Some of us are already contemplating on how we might want to dispose it afterwards, considering we all want to do it in a most environmentally friendly way possible.

A collaborative job involving all of us, I am happy to say that we have managed to work together rather well. On Saturday, we are putting in the vacant lots by first tracing the shapes and then cutting out different materials to be collaged onto the surfaces. We need help (on Saturday), if anyone can. The other person that I have been working with is out of town till Monday.