Gosh that Zaha Hadid is a busy lady, and as first lady of architecture she is in demand as a hot chocolate and cheese fondue on the mountains of Gstaad. We loved her project for BMW a few years ago which saw the factory merge with the office spaces as well as the recent nomination in the RIBA Stirling Architecture Prize 2008 for her Nordpark Cable Railway which saw Hadid collaborate with railway engineers in creating a new mountain railway to connect mountain villages with the city of Innsbruck. Her sensuous glass canopies, individual in their shape at each of the four stations, made us want to go up the mountain right away.But now Hadid has been collaborating not with prestigious car makers or the railway man but with the French fashion house Chanel and its head honcho Karl Lagerfeld in creating a pavillion that will travel the world with a show entitled 'Mobile Art' in which 15 contemporary art superstars such as Daniel Buren and Sophie Calle have been asked to create a piece that is inspired by Chanel. So cue an enormous quilted pink Chanel bag that will have Park Avenue Princesses lusting after one for their uptown apartments amongst the other artworks on show.
This is Hadid's first ever work in New York, and despite it's transient tendencies, for the pavilion will move on to London and Paris soon, its fresh in from the East after resting in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Hadid rather likes the fact that this white folly full of Chanel inspired artworks creates a buzz and then moves on to pastures new. Catch it in London next year.
New York until tomorrow
London, May 2009
Moscow, October 2009
Paris, February 2010
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