Summary • The Lucerne Festival in Switzerland is currently staging a music series housed within Anish Kapoor and Arata Isozaki's inflatable “Ark Nova” concert hall • Part sculpture, part architectural intervention the piece, defined by its mobility and structural flexibility, was created in 2013 as a symbol of resilience

“Ark Nova,” the first inflatable concert hall designed by Anish Kapoor and the late Arata Isozaki, has taken shape in Switzerland for the occasion of this year’s Lucerne Festival. For the next several days, the massive purple bloom will play host to a range of classical, jazz and folk concerts, for a one-of-a-kind experience of music and art.

First unveiled at the festival’s Matsuhima edition in 2013, the project was born in the aftermath of the Fukushima earthquake

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