Posts Tagged ‘Cascade’

Yerevan.  Yes, that's right.  The New York times just covered the opening of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.  This US$40 million art center sits on top of the Cascade, an ostentatious yet delightful structure that sums up Armenia.  As true with any nationality, being part Armenian, I had to visit the ancestral homeland, so I've done so, twice.  And that was enough.  But one of the best features about Yerevan is the Cascade:  a decadent, grandiose temple mixing Soviet chic with Art Deco ornaments--and it works! (more...)