Epis: 345- House-hunting with a Billionaire

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Hungarian billionaire Gabriela and artist and architect <a href= "https://andischmied.com/">Andi Schmied</a> talk about:</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Andi’s residencies, across Asia and Europe, as well as the <a href="https://www.triangleartsnyc.org/residency">Triangle Arts residency</a> in DUMBO, Brooklyn, where she first connected with her fellow Hungarian, the billionaire Gabriela; some of the developments around the world that led her to the realization that there’s a glut of useless, ultra-wealthy housing that’s not actually being used, particularly a complex of villas about 100 miles outside of Beijing, where the groundskeepers wound up squatting in the empty units; doing a residency in New York in 2016, when she encountered Gabriela for the first time, who would become her key collaborator for what would her project ‘<a href= "https://andischmied.com/private-views.html">Private Views</a>;’ the world of ultra-high end real estate, including the dynamics of a real estate agent showing a penthouse apartment of a very tall building to a client, and how Gabriela navigated these experiences; the questions the real estate agents showing these penthouses and other very expensive apartments asked, and what that revealed about the world of the ultra-wealthy; the various ways super-tall buildings in Manhattan are impacting everything from income inequality to changing the flora and fauna in Central Park from the long shadows they cast.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p>