ANNUAL DINNER
2024
The World Around’s Annual Dinner at Park Ave Armory featured talks by Bjarke Ingels, Frida Escobedo, and Walter Hood, plus Liberty textiles, Flos lighting, and a speech by a Young Climate Prize finalist.
November 15, 2024
18:00 – 22:00
ANNUAL DINNER
2024
The World Around’s Annual Dinner at Park Ave Armory featured talks by Bjarke Ingels, Frida Escobedo, and Walter Hood, plus Liberty textiles, Flos lighting, and a speech by a Young Climate Prize finalist.
November 15, 2024
18:00 – 22:00
The World Around’s second Annual Dinner returned to the Park Avenue Armory for a celebratory night of fundraising towards our mission to make architecture accessible to all. The evening began with a conversation between some of the most influential practitioners building the world around us today: Bjarke Ingels, Frida Escobedo, and Walter Hood. Moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Paul Goldberger, their wide-ranging discussion explored the future of housing, the evolving role of cultural institutions in New York, and the ways architecture can address pressing social and environmental challenges while inspiring the public realm. We were also joined by Young Climate Prize Cycle 02 cohort member McKenna Dunbar, who addressed guests to introduce her work delivering green skills training to incarcerated individuals in Virginia, and to expand on the valuable impact that her participation in the prize was having on her work.
For the occasion, London heritage brand Liberty designed a bespoke textile print by combining its archive designs with The World Around logo. The print was used to dress the tables for dinner, and applied to handkerchiefs that were presented to guests as souvenirs of the evening. An exhibition documenting the Liberty team’s creative process was also installed at the Armory for all to enjoy. Design brand Flos kindly provided lighting, and food and catering was coordinated by Comparti.
The World Around's founder and executive director Beatrice Galilee
Annual Dinner 2024 featured a panel discussion with honorees Walter Hood, Bjarke Ingels and Frida Escobedo moderated by Paul Goldberger
The World Around board director Amanda Burden chatting with honoree architect Frida Escobedo
Guests gathered in Park Avenue Armory's Tiffany Room
The World Around's board chairman Adam Flatto with jewelry designer Gina Feldman Love and Steve Feldman
Young Climate Prize cycle 02 finalists Bella Tanjutco and Mckenna Dunbar
Honoree Walter Hood with architect Elizabeth Roberts and designer Rachel Comey
Critic Paul Goldberger with The World Around board director and architect and urbanist Vishaan Chakrabarti
Arts editor Andrew Goldstein with Victoria Rogers
Honoree Walter Hood with filmmaker and explorer Klaus Thyman and architect Adam Rolston
Art advisor Kat McElory and financier Harry Geldman
Philanthropist Stephen Kroll Reidy and The World Around advisory board member Ben Rawlingson Plant
Female Design Council's director Angharda Coates with The World Around board director Mariam Issoufou
Philanthropist Neda Young and jewerly designer Gina Feldman
The World Around partner Molteni & C with honoree Frida Escobedo
Art and architecture historian Julian Rose and curator Alexandra Cunningham Cameron
Arts editor Andrew Goldstein and Female Design Council's Angharad Coates
The World Around's producer Ana Minujin with The World Around's advisory board member Brian Butterfield
MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design Martino Stierli with architect Adam Rolston
Architect Maria Alataris and MoMA's Paola Antonelli
Musician and artist Michael Stipe
The World Around advisory board member Susan Sellers and landscape architect Kate Orff
Art and architecture historian Julian rose with curator Alexandra Cunningham Cameron and curator Carson Chan
Critic Paul Goldberger, The World Around board director Amanda Burden and critic Fred Bernstein
Honoree Bjarke Ingels with architect and The World Around board director Elizabeth Diller
Exploring Liberty of London's archive
The World Around supporters Jens Knudsen and Deidrea Miller
The World Around's Vishaan Chakrabarti and Ana Minujin (featuring a Liberty of London x The World Around scarf)
MAXXI Rome's architecture curator Pippo Ciorra and Fondation Cartier's Béatrice Grenier
Critic Paul Goldberger with TED curator Chee Pearlman and educator Molly Heintz
The World Around board director Vishaan Chakrabarti with collector Deidrea Miller
Art dealer Mónica Manzutto and CARA founder Jane Hait
The World Around Dinner 2024 was held in the Park Avenue Armory's historic Board of Directors room. Bespoke tablecloths were provided by design creative parnter Liberty of London
Bespoke napkin designed by Liberty for The World ARound Annual Dinner 2024
The World Around board chairman Adam Flatto giving remarks in Park Avenue Armory's historic board of directors room
Dinner with Paul Goldberger, Elizabeth Diller, The World Around board chairman Adam Flatto and honoree Frida Escobedo
Alex and Lizzie Pincus
The World Around's Milena Sales with art dealer Mónica Manzutto and curator Tom Eccles
The World Around editorial director Dan Howarth with Cartier's Christine Goppell and Deidrea Miller
MoMA's Martino Stierli with director of the Canadian Center for Architecture Giovanna Borasi
Young Climate Prize winner Alfonse Chiu with journalist Camille Okhio and artist Kyle Thurman
The World Around executive director Beatrice Galilee and board director John Haskell
