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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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
Crest Installation in London: temporary sculpture – design by Zaha Hadid Architects – V&A installation, London, architect, design, architecture, images
New Mathematics Gallery in London at the Science Museum: South Kensington interior, England – design by Zaha Hadid Architects – architecture images
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. With over 5 million residents, Riyadh’s population has more than doubled since 1990. To serve its fast-growing population, the city will build a new public transport system. The building will contain six platforms over four public floors and serve as a key interchange and terminus for 3 lines.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Tadao Ando praised the fluidity and innovation of the design: “The entry’s dynamic and futuristic design embodies the messages Japan would like to convey to the rest of the world.”
However a petition to oppose construction is running, claiming the building is too large and too expensive…would fell many trees and spoil the nice human scale.
New images of proposed Abu Dhabi building design by Zaha Hadid Architects: a cultural institution for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on behalf of the Tourism Development and Investment Company of Abu Dhabi, housing five theatres.
London regeneration exhibition in building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. Roca London Gallery will host a photographic exhibition during the London Festival of Architecture, exploring some of the Capital’s key regeneration projects.
Entitled Regenerating Capital: Healthy growth, healthy city?, the exhibition will look at the impact regeneration has on green spaces, small businesses, local communities and valued buildings.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. This is the fifth hotel tower at City of Dreams in Cotai, Macau. With 40 floors and a gross floor area of 150,000 sqm, the tower houses around 780 guestrooms, suites and sky villas. The hotel also includes a variety of meeting and event facilities, gaming rooms, lobby atrium, restaurants, spa, and sky pool. The tower building design resolves the many complex programs for the hotel within a single cohesive envelope.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. For the first time since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games the public will be able to make a splash in the same swimming pools as some of Great Britain’s greatest athletes. The iconic London Aquatics Centre at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park opens its doors on Saturday 1 March 2014.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
The project was designed to serve as an event and exhibition space for the garden festival in Weil am Rhein 1999. The suggested structure does not sit in the landscape as an isolated object, but emerges from the fluid geometry of the surrounding network of paths.
Audacious design by this world-famous Iraqi architect. Since this ski jump design was completed a number of other major architects have designed spectacular ski jumps – such as Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo by JDS – but this was the first one
The new concept design for Al Wakrah Stadium. AECOM, in association with Zaha Hadid Architects, have developed the new, innovative design under the guidance of the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee.
Al Wakrah – famous for its fishing and seafaring heritage – is the proposed southern-most Host City for the 2022 FIFA World Cup™.
Roca London Gallery, Imperial Wharf, Chelsea Harbour, West Brompton, UK – design by Zaha Hadid Architects – Roca Gallery: Chelsea Harbour showroom.
The sale to Zaha Hadid Architects is the next step in the Design Museum’s journey to relocate to the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington High Street, west London, which is planned to open in late 2015.
The sinuous shape of the Zephyr sofa has been inspired by natural rock formations shaped by erosion: the application of subtractive processes that carve solid matter.
The Conseil Général of Hérault announces the inauguration of the first public building in France designed by Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi British architect, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2004.