Nicolai Ouroussoff Thinks Chanel Pavilion Launch Is Ill-Timed, in Bad Taste

The NY Times‘ Nicolai Ouroussoff is a notoriously tough man to please — and once again, he is not pleased at all. This time, he’s not so hot on Zaha Hadid‘s new Chanel Pavilion in NY’s Central Park (which you’ll remember us covering in detail here). Though you get the sense that Ouroussoff doesn’t completely hate the structure itself (unlike what’s hanging inside), he sees the whole thing as a cringe-worthy display of excess at a time when, financially, everything outside of the Pavilion is taking that bobsled to hell, to paraphrase that famous expression.