The Park Avenue Armory has announced the latest installment of its $200 million revitalization project by architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron: the Board of Officers Room will be getting a makeover, thanks to a $15 million gift from Angela Thompson and the family of Wade F.B. Thompson (whose name graces the Armory’s 55,000-square-foot drill hall after a $35 million gift in 2007). Read More
Rebecca Robertson, president of the Park Avenue Armory, was sitting in one of that massive building’s newly renovated rooms, which used to be the locker room of the Seventh Regiment’s Company E, when a booming bass reverberated from the Armory’s drill hall, sounding a little paradoxical in the room’s gaudy late-Victorian interior. Tommy Hilfiger was having his Fashion Week runway show there. A crew was busy building a catwalk and testing the sound. Ms. Robertson said what she liked about fashion crowds taking over the drill hall was that they were “fantasy people and we’re all about fantasies here.” Read More
