Ocean Blue Magazine – Page 25

I.M. Pei

ARCHITECTURE CHARACTERIZED BY ITS FAITH IN MODERNISM HUMANIZED BY ITS SUBTLETY, LYRICISM, AND BEAUTY

Pei was born in Canton, China in 1917 and moved to the United States in 1935 to study first at the University of Pennsylvania and then at MIT and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Pei’s most well-known architectural feat is likely his crystalline extension to the Louvre in Paris. Other highly influential works include the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the JFK Presidential Library in Boston.

When he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983, the jury citation stated that he “had given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms.”

“The important distinction is between a stylistic approach to the design and an analytical approach giving the process of due consideration to time, place, and purpose.”
– I.M. Pei

Gabriel Orozco

The Fountain and Empty Shoe Box: From Marcel Duchamp to GABRIEL OROZCO

In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a porcelain fixture, entitled Fountain, to an exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists. Since then, Fountain is seen as a milestone in art history. For the first time in art, Duchamp assigned more authority to the artist’s idea than to the work itself. He called these art pieces that originally came from manufactured objects “readymade.”

Gabriel Orozco is considered one of the most talented contemporary artists from Mexico. Like Duchamp, his work places the viewer under its spell of resignification. More than twenty years ago, Orozco included an empty box, Empty Shoe Box, 1993 as part of the Venice Biennale, and other exhibitions: full or empty of meaning – depending on the viewer’s perspective.

Masterpieces from Orozco do not follow a recognizable trend in medium. He has used a human skull (Black Kites, 1997), a Citroen DS (La DS, 1993), a chessboard with horses (Horses Running Forever, 1995) and even a whale skeleton (Mobile Matrix, 2006). For the most part, Orozco’s focus is not on the artwork itself but on the change of perception it provokes. Without a doubt, after Orozco no other shoebox, Citroen DS, or even skeleton can ever be viewed the same way again.

Santiago Calatrava’s

The oculus a Genuine People’s cathedral

The impact of the space and its crowning oculus is undeniable. In fact the Oculus is the name given to the central space in Calatrava’s sprawling complex in New York City – the station house which opened in early March of this year, the official World Trade Center Transportation Hub.

Considered the most expensive train station in the world, it was built on the site of the World Trade Center destroyed 15 years ago in the 9/11 attacks. It is the exhilarating nave of a genuine people’s cathedral destined to be a prime “selfie” location for years to come.

The Oculus is a room that soars under a great arc of glass. Calatrava has put together a space that is uplifting, full of light and movement, and capable of inspiring hope which has been in particularly short supply at “Ground Zero”.

The Oculus cost billions of dollars of public money and yet is a shrine to the commercial marketplace. is however doesn’t lessen the impact of the architecture nor negate the fact that this is the first time in fifty years that New York City has built a truly sumptuous interior space for the bene t of the public.

Standing inside the Oculus and gazing up is jaw-dropping. Curved, steel-ribbed walls rise up 160 feet like a pair of immense ethereal wings toward a ribbon of glass that is the giant hall’s skylight. The sun pours through the skylight, whose glass panes may be opened and closed. Using one of the architect’s favorite words, the new spaces are indeed “monumental” – open and airy, a radical transformation of space in an area of the city that can often feel closed-in and tightly confined.

When asked about his inspiration, Calatrava cites famous structures from antiquity, including the Parthenon, the Pantheon, the Hagia Sofia and the Alhambra in his native Spain, as well as American landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge and Grand Central Terminal.

Calatrava has defined his style as bridging the division between structural engineering and architecture. In his projects, he claims to continue a tradition of Spanish modernist engineering that included Antonio Gaudi? with a personal style that derives from numerous studies of the human body and the natural world.

“I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.”
– Santiago Calatrava

Beachfront Suites at the Resort at Pedregal

THE RESORT AT PEDREGAL’S BEACHFRONT SUITES ARE THE NE

PLUS ULTRA OF BAREFOOT LUXURY

The love match between beach and luxury may not be a new one, but a special incarnation of this romance is making major waves across Cabo’s shorelines.

Nestling unspoiled beach, a short distance from the iconic “Land’s End,” The Resort At Pedregal’s design-savvy beachfront suites offer immediate access to Cabo’s downy sands, breathtaking sunsets, and sublime stargazing.

Whether settling into a one-, two-, or three-bedroom beachfront suite, immerse in uninterrupted panoramas of sand, surf, and sky from your private, infinity-edged plunge pool and expansive alfresco terrace; or gaze upon these postcard-perfect views through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of your sumptuous waterfront abode, coming and going as you please from your personal, 35-foot swathe of beach or The Resort At Pedregal’s greater beachfront.

Expect plenty of pampering during your “Once Upon a Time at The Resort At Pedregal” reverie. Beyond the main resort staff, a small entourage of service professionals caters to each beachfront suite, including a personal assistant, a beachfront attendant, and a private butler. Anticipating your every need (whether guava margaritas and fruit skewers at 1pm daily, perfecting a dinner under-the-stars in your private beachfront dining cabana, surprising your other half with a post-dinner, flower-filled bathtub, or roasting Mexican s’mores with the kids) this bespoke team stands at the ready to fulfill any and all requests – promptly, graciously, and enthusiastically – unwavering in their quest to define the ultraluxury experience through stellar service.

Casa Tokase Los Cabos, Mexico

Conceptualized by renowned architect Stephen Berman, Casa Tokase is an architectural masterpiece combining the ultimate in contemporary design with unprecedented luxury living. Majestically situated on an oceanfront cliff, overlooking the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean, Casa Tokase fully embraces its location above the ultra-exclusive ‘The Resort at Pedregal’ in the gated community of Pedregal de Cabo San Lucas.

Encompassing more than 20,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor living space, the home features five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, two infinity-edge swimming pools, a home theater, state-of-the-art fitness room, private office and Control technology throughout.

You and your guests will experience the splendid dining and nightlife of Cabo San Lucas, only minutes from Casa Tokase. World-class sport fishing, diving and cruising is in your backyard; private aircraft are welcomed, only 20 minutes away, at the Cabo San Lucas International Airport.

Redefining Luxury – Casa Tokase offers a full array of impressive amenities as well as complete property management and concierge services, including yachting on the ‘Tokase’ yacht (Tokaseyacht.com) – the highest standard of effortless living in Cabo San Lucas. Listing agent – Janet Jensen.

Lyon was born in Newport Beach, California and began dancing at the age of twelve. She studied with Yvonne Mounsey, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and Rosemary Valaire formerly of the Royal Ballet.

At age thirteen, she was invited to train at the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia. She was awarded the Friends of Joffrey Scholarship and was the first place winner of the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Awards.

At sixteen, Lyon was invited to join the American Ballet Theatre where she toured internationally with the company. She has been a guest artist with the National Ballet in London and the Bavarian National Ballet in Munich and worked with such luminaries as Margot Fonteyn, Mihkail Baryshnikov, and Natalia Makarova, Twyla Tharp and Gelsey Kirkland.

Today, Lyon continues to coach and train dancers all over the world. She is currently the artistic director and founder of Gala de Danza where she gives aspiring ballet dancers a peek at the real thing, in Los Cabos, Mexico.