Zaha Hadid Architects, London, UK. Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA was an Iraqi architect, who set up an architecture office in London, England.
She won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, and was the first woman to receive this prestigious international award. She received the UK’s Stirling Prize twice, in 2010 and 2011.
This British architecture practice is now led by architect and architectural theorist Patrik Schumacher.
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Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. ZHA beat Massimiliano Fuksas, Studio Daniel Libeskind to win design for a new museum and cultural centre in Vilnius. The nternational art building will house pieces from Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NYC, and the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
The Science Center, the first of its kind in Germany, appears as a mysterious object, giving rise to curiosity and discovery. The visitor is faced with a degree of complexity and strangeness, which is ruled however by a very specific system of structural organization.
Antwerp Port House, Belgium design by Zaha Hadid Architects – Antwerp Port Authority Headquarters, new Belgian HQ building images + news
Design by Zaha Hadid Architects in the garden plot that separates 68 and 66-64 Woodstock Road. The new building has to comply with the college’s vision for growth and add formal coherence to the existing quad.
The Dorobanti Tower was designed to establish an iconic presence in the heart of Bucharest. The new tower is a unique mix of a distinctive form, ingenious structure, and spatial qualities of sky-high living.
Liquid Glacial is comprised of a series of tables resembling ice-formations made from clear and coloured acrylic. Their design embeds surface complexity and refraction within a powerful fluid dynamic.
The historic qualities of the space presented an exacting design challenge for Hadid. The exhibition design respects these spatial and contextual characteristics whilst also intervening in the unique manner of Hadid’s digital, liquid fluidity
Zaha Hadid Architects have created a unique chamber music hall specially designed to house solo performances of the exquisite music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Work is continuing at the construction site of the University of Seville Library. The building will provide residents and visitors to Seville with a state-of-the-art public library and reading rooms, exhibition hall, and conference facility.
After presenting the design to Egyptian Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Zaha Hadid Architects was announced as architects of the new Cairo Expo City. Zaha Hadid Architects will be designing Cairo Expo City together with global multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold.
The Stone Towers by Zaha Hadid Architects for Rooya Group of Egypt is located in the Stone Park district of Cairo. Providing office and retail facilities to a rapidly expanding Cairo, the unique 525,000sqm Stone Towers development also includes a five-star business hotel with serviced apartments, retail with food and beverage facilities and sunken landscaped gardens and plaza called the ‘Delta’.
The project was initially previewed in October 2008 during the Frieze Art Fair in London, and the exciting ‘work in progress’ exhibited there has now become a final design prototype poised for production.
Zaha Hadid Architects exploration and research into systems of growth in the natural world have informed the distinct formal language of the Genesy lamp for Artemide.
NY Projects, with Zaha Hadid + Patrik Schumacher, Offer Glimpse of Seoul Collection at Milan Furniture Fair A progressive new collection of limited-edition designs was introduced at an invitation-only luncheon for global design leaders on 24 April at the Milan Furniture Fair.
Reports in the Press that this project is on hold, as are many in UAE. Developer Sama Dubai recently merged with Dubai Properties and received a £6.9 billion government bailout
The proposal seeks to replace two existing buildings with a new 3000m2 structure that will house a two-level gallery, commercial offices and eight residential flats. The site is located within the South Shoreditch Conservation Area and will add an exciting new addition to Hoxton Square’s eclectic character.
The architecture of Andrea Palladio represents the built manifestation of Palladio’s utopia of synthesizing all humanistic values by establishing the exact role and relation of each part of his architectural compositions – from the organism as a perfect whole to each single room.