Connie & Hsin-Yu
Things To Do
Roosevelt Island Tramway
We love the Roosevelt Island Tramway ride which will give you breathtaking views of the city, we recommend going around sunset so you could see the daytime view on your ride to the island, walk on the riverside of the island experiencing the beautiful sunset and fall foliage, and enjoy the night view on your ride back! This was one of our date routines which led to the proposal at the beautiful FDR Park by Louis Kahn.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park
This is where we had our first date, and where Hsin-Yu proposed on 2/15/2021. Architects and landscape architects definitely will not be disappointed by this masterpiece by Louis Kahn. Kahn's design makes perfect use of the triangular shape of the Park's site, emphasizing it, and employing what could be called a forced perspectival parti to draw and focus the visitor's gaze toward the colossal head of Roosevelt at the threshold to the "Room." “I had this thought that a memorial should be a room and a garden. That’s all I had. Why did I want a room and a garden? I just chose it to be the point of departure. The garden is somehow a personal nature, a personal kind of control of nature, a gathering of nature. And the room was the beginning of architecture. I had this sense, you see, and the room wasn’t just architecture, but was an extension of self.” — Louis Kahn, Excerpt from a lecture given at Pratt Institute.
The Met Breuer
The Met Breuer is a museum designed by the renowned architect, Marcel Breuer. The museum served as a branch museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is located at Madison Avenue and East 75th Street in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, which is very close to our wedding venue. Recently, the Met Breuer is exhibiting the art collections of the Frick Collection, which is closing for its renovation and expansion. https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/the-frick-goes-breuer_o The Frick Goes Breuer!