![]() ![]() Working for other people is the bottom of the drudge pot. Maybe it’s the same with journalism: You go in, it’s kinda glamorous in school, and then the actual profession is a lot of drudge. I wanted to be artistic, and the actual profession of architecture is drudge. I said to myself, “Maybe I chose the wrong profession.” I wanted to go to architecture via art. You can imagine I fit in really great-not. I thought, If that’s all I have to look forward to, then I’m going to take the big pill now.Īfter Cornell, you came to New York to work for several big-name firms-Skidmore, Owings & Merrill George Nelson I.M. About the most exciting building produced at that time was Ulrich Franzen’s science hall at Cornell. Everything was painting, painting, painting, painting. It was just leaving Abstract Expressionism, and Warhol had hit the scene. It was the late ’60s, and I think it was the architectural low point of the 20th century. It was a funny period when I went to architecture school. I went to the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, and it’s where I figured out I would be an architect and not a fine artist. But calling Cornell the foundation is, I think, giving it a little too much credit. You don’t know what everything contributes to. You don’t want to go there.ĭo you think Cornell laid the foundation for your work? Second-most cloudy city in the United States. You graduated from there with an architecture degree in 1971.ĭreadful place, Ithaca, New York. ![]() Let’s start with your time at Cornell University. The site, a former Getty gas station at 10th Avenue and 24th Street, cost Shvo $23.5 million, or about $850 per buildable square foot-a record price, he claims, for a development in the city. Surface sat down for a conversation with Marino in New York at his 36th-floor office on the Upper East Side. Now, with the real-estate developer Michael Shvo, Marino is gearing up for one of his most ambitious buildings yet: a 10-unit, 12-story residential development in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, to finish construction in late 2015. His project list even includes the New Jersey headquarters of Datascope, a company that makes heart monitors. In addition, he has masterminded a penthouse and presidential suites at the Four Seasons New York resorts in Morocco, Anguilla, and Sardinia and private residences in locations ranging from Paris to Palm Beach. Since founding his eponymous New York–based firm in 1978, the 63-year-old architect has designed hundreds of retail stores for luxury brands including Chanel, Christian Dior, Donna Karan, Ermenegildo Zegna, Fendi, Giorgio Armani, Graff, Hublot, Louis Vuitton, and Valentino. ![]() What he does know a thing about is taste-and how to translate that through art and design into profits. Peter Marino is happy to admit he doesn’t know a thing about marketing research. ![]()
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