Zaha Hadid
The Stone Towers by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled plans for an office and retail development called The Stone Towers in Cairo, Egypt. Ancient Egyptian stonework incorporates a vast array of patterns and textures that, when illuminated by the intense sunlight of the region, creates animated displays of light and shadow. The effect is powerful, direct and inspiring. […]
Dorobanti Tower by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a high-rise building for the center of Bucharest, Romania, which has a structural, lattice façade. It will contain a five star hotel, a business centre, a casino, retail areas, apartments and underground parking. The Dorobanti Tower was designed to establish an iconic presence in the heart of Bucharest. The new […]
International Austria. Hadid builds Library & Learning Center
Usually, the Austrian municipality is defending the local ‘architecture market’ against foreign competitors, thus, international architects rarely enter the competition. Today, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration choose a different path: An international jury lead by Wolf Prix (Coop Himmelblau), has selected Zaha Hadid (she will do the biggest building – the Library […]
Port house Antwerp by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects have won a competition to design the new headquarters of Antwerp Port Authority in Antwerp, Belgium.The 12,800 square metre development consists of an glazed extension above the former fire station, supported asymmetrically on three concrete pillars.Clad in glass and aluminium, the 46 metre-high extension overlooks the city and port.
Zaha Hadid replaced keen to curved shapes
The largest investment and construction in Russia, of these days, are exhibition halls with residential skyscraper, Expocenter, located in a centre of the Moscow, designed by Zaha Hadid. The main aim of the horizontal space is to house the exposition and conference halls. In the ground-floor author created open, but cover place […]
British Pavilion for World Expo 2010
The list includes internationally known Zaha Hadid Architects and Marks Barfield, creative studios Avery Associates and John McAslan Architects, a team unit around the architect/sculptor Thomas Heatherwick, and a new practice Draw Architects. A final selection for the winning entry will be made by Malcon Reading for FCO. There will be a public exhibition of […]
Masterplan by Zaha Hadid
Bilbao will start rebuilding of the old port. It´s the biggest masterplan by Zaha Hadid, which will be probably realized. A 60 hectare port stands on an island, which is in a curve of river Nervion. In new centre will be home for nearly 15,000 new residents and workshops, labs, studios, and offices for 6,000 […]
Train stations by Zaha Hadid
Icon of architecture Zaha Hadid shouldnt be ashamed in Austria too. Before an opening of new winter season 2007, she opeened 4 small train stations, that serve to skiers, above the city of Insbruck. This project shows another sucessful plastic play with mass by architect Hadid.
Zaha Hadid and conception of Glasgow Museum of Transport
Project for a New Glasgow Museum of Transport, Scotland, by Zaha Hadid was selected from 44 others architects and designers and the museum will be open to the public by 2009. The building is concipate as a tunnel-like shed, which is open at opposite ends, where the building diverts to create a journey away […]
Zaha Hadid’s Flying Ferocity
When Zaha Hadid’s new building for the Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art opened in 2003, it was clear her long years in the wilderness, as an architect primarily famous for not getting her buildings built, were over.
Hadid, a drafter of rigorously utopian visions, whose drawings often look like a cross between something by Kandinsky and […]
