



Childhood nostalgia gets an architectural twist at Alexander Wang's new Chinatown arts hub. Every hour, thousands of red and gold paper planes drift down through a soaring rotunda, each carrying a single word that together form a meditation on language and collective meaning.
Lunar New Year celebration
Paper plane installation
Restored historic landmark
Mesmerizing repetition
Tips
✈️"turns a simple childhood object into something poetic and architectural"
🎹arrive early for the evolving piano prelude
🧧unfold your plane to read its one-word invocation
Saturday, February 20
20,000 Variations On A Paper Plane In Flight
February 20 at 12am
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Childhood nostalgia gets an architectural twist at Alexander Wang's new Chinatown arts hub. Every hour, thousands of red and gold paper planes drift down through a soaring rotunda, each carrying a single word that together form a meditation on language and collective meaning.
Lunar New Year celebration
Paper plane installation
Restored historic landmark
Mesmerizing repetition
Tips
✈️"turns a simple childhood object into something poetic and architectural"
🎹arrive early for the evolving piano prelude
🧧unfold your plane to read its one-word invocation
Saturday, February 20
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