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| Serpentine Gallery commissions Zaha Hadid Architects installation  Zaha Hadid Architects will create a temporary installation on the occasion of the Gallery's world-renowned fundraiser The Summer Party. It will be sited on the lawn next to the Gallery where it will remain for a period of one week. The installation is designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, Partner at Zaha Hadid Architects, as an open air space, 5.5 meters in height that consists of three identical fabric structures or parasols arrayed around a central point. Each parasol develops sculpturally from a small articulated base to a large cantilevered diamond shape. Taking inspiration from complex natural geometries such as flower petals and leaves the three parasols overlap to create the installation's main conceptual feature: complex symmetry, interweaving all-the-while without touching, allowing air, light and sound to travel through narrow gaps in a state that is both open and likewise tending toward closure.write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |