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October 22, 2008

Architecture for our times, or for life before the bust?

Zaha Hadid finally has a building in the rain in New York City - but it's a temporary shrine to Chanel handbags in Central Park.

It's a transportable art gallery commissioned by fashion designer Lagerfeld, the luxury-goods company's artistic director, and designed by Zaha Hadid, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, to house artworks inspired by Chanel's iconic quilted purse on a chain, known as the 2.55.

The Chanel Pavilion is made up of hundreds of glossy white fiberglass panels that can be assembled and dismantled over a steel frame in a matter of weeks. Structure and show, known as Mobile Art, will be open to the public in New York, after stints in Hong Kong and Tokyo, Oct. 24 to Nov. 9, then move on to London, Moscow and Paris. Admission is free if you reserve in advance at the on-site ticket booth.

And here I thought she was supposed to be a Marxist.

Here's a review from Bloomberg.muse, which ends "My wish is for Hadid to give New York a building that doesn't disappear after three weeks."

Here are my previous speculations about Hadid.

Posted by CrankyProfessor at October 22, 2008 6:04 AM

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