Today should be rainy in the morning, but we are lucky. The weather is nice until afternoon.We start our trip at the Brooklyn Bridge Park, and visit the Jane’s Carousel and Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Visitor Center at Prospect Park later. We have to say we have seen different view of Brooklyn, compared with the industrial park we have visit before. The Brooklyn Bridge Park and Prospect Park are both nice park with many details we can learn from.
Brooklyn Bridge Park is the first stop today. It’s a park which face to the Manhattan. It’s like a window connect the Brooklyn and the Manhattan. We can find such an interesting balance in this conflict. Go along this park, we never feel boring. The space is full of surprise. We enjoy the view from two sides, even three sides. It has become a good place to experience the New York from different directions.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center awarded the general design praise of ASLA in 2013. Located at 990 Washington Avenue, a translation between the city and the garden. Today, it is very quietly and beautifully. When we walking into it, I was attracted by the passage way on the second floor. It is a gap between two ellipsoidal constructions. Standing on this passage way, we can see the first floor through the frosted glass wall. This passage way guided us going to the ginkgo street. Then, we say the roof of the visitor center, the most famous element in this architecture. This roof is expected to harvest almost 200,000 gallons of water each year, planted with three mixes of meadow grasses, flowering perennials. When standing in the garden and saw the visitor center, it looks like hiding in the plants cause of the green roof.
Brooklyn museum is another impress place for us. The interior of this building is very purely and quietly. Our favorite exhibition is produced by Ai Weiwei, a famous artist from China. I like him and always thought that he is a crazy guy since many years ago. Many people considered him as an energy, weird and daring man. Today, I have another thinking about him cause of the exhibition on the fourth floor. It is a documentary talking about the earthquake in WenChuan, he is fighting with the government to protect the truth. At last, he sleeping in a hospital of German, looks very tired and weak. It is a different Ai Weiwei from the past. It is hard to say what I felt, but make me interested on his experience more the before. The fifth floor is also his exhibition. He projected videos on the wall. From the video, the camera never moved. Most of this video are record the old Beijing and the audiences are interested with these images, so that they never moved. I think it is very funny, the camera never moved, the audience which watch these videos never moved either. So I took a video about this screen.
Pretty enjoy today! Look forward to tomorrow!
Brooklyn Bridge Park is the first stop today. It’s a park which face to the Manhattan. It’s like a window connect the Brooklyn and the Manhattan. We can find such an interesting balance in this conflict. Go along this park, we never feel boring. The space is full of surprise. We enjoy the view from two sides, even three sides. It has become a good place to experience the New York from different directions.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center awarded the general design praise of ASLA in 2013. Located at 990 Washington Avenue, a translation between the city and the garden. Today, it is very quietly and beautifully. When we walking into it, I was attracted by the passage way on the second floor. It is a gap between two ellipsoidal constructions. Standing on this passage way, we can see the first floor through the frosted glass wall. This passage way guided us going to the ginkgo street. Then, we say the roof of the visitor center, the most famous element in this architecture. This roof is expected to harvest almost 200,000 gallons of water each year, planted with three mixes of meadow grasses, flowering perennials. When standing in the garden and saw the visitor center, it looks like hiding in the plants cause of the green roof.
Brooklyn museum is another impress place for us. The interior of this building is very purely and quietly. Our favorite exhibition is produced by Ai Weiwei, a famous artist from China. I like him and always thought that he is a crazy guy since many years ago. Many people considered him as an energy, weird and daring man. Today, I have another thinking about him cause of the exhibition on the fourth floor. It is a documentary talking about the earthquake in WenChuan, he is fighting with the government to protect the truth. At last, he sleeping in a hospital of German, looks very tired and weak. It is a different Ai Weiwei from the past. It is hard to say what I felt, but make me interested on his experience more the before. The fifth floor is also his exhibition. He projected videos on the wall. From the video, the camera never moved. Most of this video are record the old Beijing and the audiences are interested with these images, so that they never moved. I think it is very funny, the camera never moved, the audience which watch these videos never moved either. So I took a video about this screen.
Pretty enjoy today! Look forward to tomorrow!