Zaha Hadid Architects has translated the swooping shapes of its recently completed condos beside New York's High Line into a blue and white headwear design, for a "hat-themed" party on the elevated park.
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) director Patrik Schumacher led the team on the design of the H-Line hat. It will be worn during a fashion show at a fundraising event for the hugely popular High Line park, taking place tomorrow, 14 June 2018. Everyone at the party is required to wear some form of headgear.

ZHA's hat is modelled on the firm's 520 West 28th residential building, built beside the elevated park in New York's trendy Chelsea neighbourhood.
Curving up at the top to form a peak and then swooping down at the back into a point, the hat follows the sinuous forms found across its facades. Slender, diagonal perforations puncture the 3D-printed nylon headwear, mirroring the building's curved metallic window frames.
"The fluid chevrons of 520 West 28th's facade weave up the building, conveying its split levels and demarcating each residence within," said ZHA in a statement. "The H-Line hat echoes these chevrons, weaving around the wearer with open and closed forms."

The headgear is similar to a collection of 3D-printed hats created by milliner Gabriela Ligenza. But ZHA has added colour, with a blue rim that blends into white at the centre.

Non-profit Friends of the High Line organised the High Line Party as part of its mission to raise 98 pe...