eCognoscente - Jane and Jean - Jane's Carousel and Jean Nouvel!

Jane's Carousel, which opens to the public on September 16, is housed, as its architect Jean Nouvel envisioned, like some ‘bijou’ in his very modern transparent pavilion. Acrylic chosen instead of transparent glass for its delicate distortions—the view of city touched then by some of the conjury of old circus mirrors, as if now seen through the clearest gently-flowing water. All the more enchanting for the contrast with the rough-tough industrial aesthetic of the bridges and warehouses of Dumbo. And so, not only the ride itself, but one with whirling wild views of river and skyline, of tracery of steel-wire cables of Brooklyn Bridge.