When Karl Met Zaha: Chanel Art Pod Debuts Next Week
Plans for Zaha Hadid‘s London building for The Architecture Foundation have been scrapped, but another one of her projects is just days away from completion. The glossy, white fiber-reinforced plastic and steel pod took a little longer than planned to fabricate, but all systems are now go for Chanel‘s Mobile Art project, a traveling contemporary art gallery that kicks off its two-year world tour next Wednesday at Hong Kong’s Star Ferry Car Park. The Hadid-designed pod arrives stateside this fall, when it will touch down in New York.
“For this pavilion, we explored the organic forms evident in spiraling sea-shells,” Hadid told us in an e-mail.
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