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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Remembering Zaha Hadid: the architect was recently awarded the RIBA’s 2016 Royal Gold Medal, the first woman to be awarded the prestigious honour in her own right. She also won the Stirling Prize twice, for the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and for Brixton’s Evelyn Grace Academy.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The Citylife project immersed in a park of 160,000 sqm (one of Europe’s largest pedestrianized zones) involves architects Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and Daniel Libeskind.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. DDP was the first public project in Korea to utilize the 3-Dimensional Building Information Modelling (BIM) and other digital tools in construction.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The architectural concept is inspired by the fluid geometries of water in motion, creating spaces and a surrounding environment that reflect the riverside landscapes of the Olympic Park.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The 76m-high building provides space for over 1500 university students: home for the PolyU School of Design and newly-established Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects – the 85,000 sqft Rosenthal Center was the first U.S. museum designed by a woman and hailed by the New York Times as “the most important American building to be completed since the cold war.”
Zaha Hadid was widely regarded to be the greatest female architect in the world today. Born in Baghdad in 1950, she studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before starting her architectural journey in 1972 at the Architectural Association in London.
“Its conception is one of the most ambitious and comprehensive assertions of our will to create dynamic and fluid spaces. It blends formal geometric complexity with bold structures and an innovative use of materials. Architectural creation involves pushing the boundaries”
Fluid movements leading to dynamic forms, the celeste jewellery pieces reflect the seamless complexity of the vision Zaha Hadid has explored and developed over the past three decades.
The globally-renowned architect Dame Zaha Hadid has received the 2016 Royal Gold Medal for architecture, the first woman to be awarded the prestigious honour in her own right. Zaha Hadid is internationally renowned for her built, theoretical and academic work.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Related Companies today announce the official launch of sales at 520 West 28th, the highly anticipated first residential building in New York designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Zaha Hadid.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Conceived as a series of vertically stacked plates off-set at each level with connecting curved elements, a central atrium rises through all levels to bring natural light into the centre of the building.
Zaha Hadid Architects unable to secure a construction company in its consortium and therefore announce that they are unable to enter this architecture competition: “It is disappointing that the two years of work and investment in the existing design for a new National Stadium for Japan cannot be further developed to meet the new brief through the new design competition.”
New National Stadium of Japan in Tokyo: sports arena building in Tokyo – design by Zaha Hadid Architects – New National Stadium of Japan building: arena
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has proposed an alternative community-orientated design comprised of a low-rise, yet high-density residential building of 981 apartments with accommodation around three sides of the rectangular site.
A hunk of concrete cladding weighing an estimated 80 kg fell off the facade of this building by Zaha Hadid Architects in Vienna. This is the second case of pieces of concrete falling off the Library and Learning Center at the Vienna University of Economics and Business since the building opened in 2013.
The Sleuk Rith Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia – design by Zaha Hadid Architects – Cambodia Institute and Genocide Memorial Building, Cambodian architecture