"We were responding to the context, to Frank's design," says swoopitect Zaha Hadid of the set she designed for the L.A. Philharmonic's performance of Mozart's "Così Fan Tutte," which ran inside Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall. This time, Hadid's signature all-white waves actually swell, thanks to hydraulic mechanisms in the floor, and architect and critic Joseph Giovannini is impressed, opining that "if architecture has been called 'frozen music,' she has defrosted it." [NYT; previously]
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