The Zaha Hadid Foundation has opened an exhibition on Zaha Hadid's Moonsoon Restaurant in Sapporo Japan. Here, exhibitions officer and curator Johan Deurell selects five highlights from the show.

""Not everything in the show came from that briefcase. There were boxes upon boxes of archival material too. During the research phase, colleagues at Zaha Hadid Architects told me: 'go find the little doodle'. That turned out to be a sheet of Arabic letterforms spelling out Zaha and Moonsoon, and the recurring swirly shape, which you see in the model and paintings."

"With some help from Marwan Kaabour, who designed the graphic identity for the exhibition, I learnt that the swirl is a stylised version of the letter H in Zaha. Marwan has done some amazing work for Phaidon and V&A before and runs the Instagram account Takweer on queer narratives in the SWANA region. I asked him to make a video based upon the archival material we had found."
"This snippet is taken from that video. It charts the development of Moonsoon's 'orange peel' structure, from the brief to its final built form. Beginning with sketches of the words ?????? [Moonsoon] and ??? [Zaha] based on Arabic letterforms, through references to orange peel, pasta, and the works of Alexander Calder, it concludes with their eventual translation into the technical drawings informing the construction, as well as images of the construction and built."

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