Hadid’s Chanel Pavilion A Creature Of A Different Age

The Chanel Pavilion in Central Park “certainly oozes glamour. Its mysterious nautiluslike form … reflects the keen architectural intelligence we have come to expect from its creator, Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born architect who lives in London. Yet if devoting so much intellectual effort to such a dubious undertaking might have seemed indulgent a year ago, today it looks delusional.”