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Like any couple with large family commitments and a late-summer vacation,Brad PittandAngelina Jolieare seemingly making up for lost time with a pre-Labor Day getaway.
The couple – who have been ensconced in their South of France chateau for two weeks – took separate daytrips over the weekend, demonstrating that with access to helicopters and private aircraft, their interests are quite far-flung.
In a “Honey, take care of the kids! I’m off to see Napoleon’s birthplace” excursion Friday, Jolie took Shiloh to Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. The actress and her daughter strolled around the palm-lined Place Foch, past the pastel-washed Napoleon Museum – and even squeezed in a little shopping before local photographers discovered them.
No sooner had she returned home, then it was Brad’s turn.
Architectural Holiday
Scheduled to open officially in mid-2010, the $45-million project will involve a complete rehabilitation of the city’s neglected industrial portside. Built on a former steel-making site, the cultural center will be home to a 1,000-seat auditorium, 45,000-sq.-ft. gallery, cinema and panoramic tower built around a central waterside plaza.
“He is interested in supporting the project,” Aviles’s Mayor Pilar Varela told reporters after Pitt’s visit, “both from its cultural aspects as well as its architectural design.” The Mayor added that he’d spoken with Pitt about his further involvement in the ambitious project – which already counts Stephen Hawking, novelist Paulo Coehlo and Woody Allen among its artistic advisors – “but that it was a little early to announce anything concrete.”
‘Environmental Sustainability’
Pitt, 46, whose New OrleansMake It RightFoundation is involved increating residential housingin the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, toured the site at length with Varela and architects on Sunday afternoon for several hours. During the visit, Pitt was “particularly interested in the project’s durability,” said Varela.
Key to the Niemeyer Center – which anchors an even larger, urban “Island of Innovation” plan – is its “environmental sustainability.” Added Varela: “That’s why he came to see the site for himself.”
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source: people.com
