Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park

The fiber-reinforced plastic panels that serve as the skin of Zaha Hadid’s sensuous—and portable—Chanel Art Container (see “Nomad Architecture”). Photograph: Virgile Simon Bertrand.

SB: There seems to be a trend toward more graphic work. Is it due to our desire to liken our surroundings to the graphic world of electronic media? While all of these textural…