Zaha Mohammad Hadid is from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Her father was involved in politics, and her mother was a painter. Zaha began to be interested in architecture when she was only 6–7 years old. A friend of her father’s, an architect, who was building a house in Mosul for the girl’s aunt, came to her parents’ house. He brought with him drawings and models that intrigued and attracted the child. Her interest did not disappear with age, but rather flared up so strongly that architecture became the main business of her life.
Education and career of Zaha Hadid
First, Zaha studied in Lebanon at the American University of Beirut. Since 1972, she continued her education at the Architectural School of the Association of Architects (AA) in London. After graduating, she worked for some time in the office of one of her former teachers, the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. He considered her his most talented student and called her “a planet in its own orbit.”
However, in 1979, she founded the firm Zaha Hadid Architects and began her independent creative flight. Zakha said that the most precious thing to her is the team: all those who worked with her and did not leave even in the difficult decade from 1993 to 2003. People did not leave, although most architectural projects existed only on paper. The bureau worked mainly in the field of object design, furniture and interior design.
The first project that was brought from drawings to construction was the building of a fire station in the German city of Weil am Rhein for the company Vitra (1990 - 1993).
Zaha Hadid. Fire station in Weil am Rhein. Germany.
Things went uphill after the construction of the Center in the USA contemporary art Rosenthal in Cincinnati in 1999
In addition to her direct studies in architecture, Zaha taught at the AA school until 1987 and lectured all over the world, incl. conducted master classes in Russia. She treated the young people warmly, of whom there are still many among the employees of her company’s office. In one of her few interviews, she explained this circumstance as follows:
Zaha's brainchild did not disintegrate after her death. A team of several hundred people continues the work of their leader, completing architectural and design projects begun with her. The bureau is headed by Zaha Hadid's partner and associate, architect and architectural theorist Patrick Schumacher.
Confession
The Peak Sports Club project, created by Zaha for a client from Hong Kong, is her first victory in a significant architectural competition (1983).
Gradually, Zaha Hadid is becoming a recognized architect, whose bright projects are strikingly different from the works of other specialists. In 2004, she became a laureate of the most prestigious award in the field of architecture, the Pritzker Prize. This award was awarded to a woman architect for the first time. The award ceremony took place at the Hermitage Theater on Palace Embankment in St. Petersburg.
One of important factors, which is considered when awarding the prize, is the presence of innovative ideas embedded in projects. Innovation in Zaha Hadid's work has been one of the fundamental principles from the very beginning. On its formation individual style influenced by a passion for avant-gardeism, especially the work of Kazimir Malevich. At the beginning of her career, she was seriously interested in the experiments and techniques of the Russian avant-garde. Those developments can be seen in all her projects. Zaha Hadid herself became a great experimenter.
Personal life of Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid's personal life is not public knowledge. It is known that she did not start a family, that she did not have a child, that she lived not far from her London office in an ascetic apartment with avant-garde furniture, but without a kitchen.
Zaha Hadid died in Miami (USA) on March 31, 2016 from a heart attack.
Her life was filled with her work.
etc.
Zaha Hadid. Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati. USA. 2003.
Zaha Hadid. Center aquatic species sports London. Olympic Games 2012.
Zaha Hadid. Dominion Tower Business Center. Moscow. Russia.
Zaha Hadid. Golden metro station in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia.
Zaha Hadid. Project of a stadium in the city of Al-Wakrah for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Qatar.
Zaha Hadid. Multipurpose complex Beko Masterplan in Belgrade. Serbia.
Eve Lasvit lamp by Zaha Hadid
Painting by Zaha Hadid
Since early, almost adolescence, Zaha Hadid has been constantly fantasizing and working on many projects: both commissioned and on personal initiative. IN different years she offers options for building a habitable bridge over the Thames (), an inverted skyscraper for the English city of Leicester () and a club on a mountaintop in Hong Kong (). Designs the opera buildings in Cardiff ( - the project remained unrealized), Centers for Contemporary Art in Ohio ( ) and Rome (). These and other projects bring her victory in prestigious architectural competitions(the first was won in Hong Kong), interest and then popularity among professionals, but remain on paper. Largely due to the unwillingness of customers to accept its non-standard and original design.
Gradually, recognition comes to Zaha Hadid. One of the first completed developments was the fire station of the furniture company Vitra, reminiscent of the Stealth bomber ().
Creation
According to Hadid herself, a surge of interest in her work began after the building of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao was built (in 1997) designed by Frank Gehry. And after participating in the construction of the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, USA, which opened in 2003, her ideas became truly in demand.
In addition to purely architectural work with large forms, Zaha Hadid willingly experiments in the installation genre, and also creates theatrical scenery, exhibition and stage spaces, interiors, shoes, paintings and drawings. Here she hones new forms in conditions of complete compositional freedom or, on the contrary, in conditions of tough tasks. Her small works are in many museum collections- such as MoMA, the German Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt am Main (DAM) and others. She also gives lectures and organizes master classes all over the world, each time attracting full audiences.
Zaha Hadid in Russia
Zakha has visited Russia several times. On May 31, 2004, a ceremony was held to present Zaha Hadid with the Pritzker Prize in the building of the Hermitage Theater (St. Petersburg). Also in 2004, Hadid gave a keynote lecture at the Moscow Central House of Architects (CDA). A year later (in 2005), Zaha Hadid gave a master class as part of the ARCH-Moscow exhibition.
On September 25, 2015, in Moscow, in the Dubrovka district, on Sharikopodshipnikovskaya Street, a business center was opened, built according to the project of “Zaha Hadid Architects” in Zaha’s unchanged architectural manner - in the avant-garde style (the main construction was completed in 2014).
Hadid was a member of the International Trustee Committee for the creation of the Melnikov House Museum in Moscow.
Buildings
- 2015 - , Moscow, Russia
- 2012 - Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
- 2010-2014 - theater project in Rabat, Morocco.
- 2011 - CMA CGM Tower, Marseille, France
- 2011 - Aquatics Center (London), England
- 2010 - National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy
- 2007 - Funicular station, Austria
- 2006 - Hotel Puerta America, Madrid, Spain
- 2005 - BMW plant headquarters, Leipzig, Germany
- 2005 - Science Center "Fahno", Wolfsburg, Germany
- 2005 - Cable car stations, Innsbruck, Austria
- 2005 - Ordrupgaard Art Museum: new wing, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2002 - Springboard Bergisel, Innsbruck, Austria
- 2001 - Hoenheim-North station and car park, Strasbourg, France
- 1998 - Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- 1994 - Fire station of the designer furniture manufacturer Vitra, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Other works
- 2008 - Shoe design development for Lacoste and the Brazilian company Melissa
- 2007 - Project of an ideal house, presented at Imm Cologne 2007 (Cologne, Germany)
- 1999-2000 - Art design for the Pet Shop Boys world tour
- 2000 - Sofas and table, Z-series,
- 1999 - Mind Zone under the Millennium Dome, London, UK
- 1992 - Design of the exhibition "The Great Utopia" at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
- 1990 - Interior of the Moonjun restaurant in Sapporo, Japan
- Furniture and silverware design for Sawaya and Moroni
Projects
- Expocentre, Moscow, Russia, 2006
- 2006 - Library of the University of Seville, Seville, Spain
- 2006 - Spiral Tower, Barcelona, Spain
- 2006 - Kartal - development of a business district in Istanbul, Türkiye
- 2006 - Issam Fares Institute of Politics and International Relations, Beirut, Lebanon
- 2005 - Picturesque Tower, Moscow, Russia
- 2005 - Architectural Trust Building, London, UK
- 2005 - Bridge Pavilion, Zaragoza, Spain
- 2005 - Eleftheria Square. Reconstruction, Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus
- 2005 - Sports complex for water sports, London, UK
- 2005 - Opera House, Guangzhou, China
- 2004 - Club with concert hall, Basel, Switzerland
- 2007-2011 - Dongdaemun Shopping Center and the adjacent area of the same name in Seoul, South Korea
- 2009-2012 - Galaxy Soho Shopping and Entertainment Complex, Beijing, China
- 2009-2013 - Campus of the Vienna University of Economics, Vienna, Austria
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Marya Dmitrievna, finding a tearful Sonya in the corridor, forced her to confess everything. Having intercepted Natasha’s note and read it, Marya Dmitrievna, with the note in her hand, went up to Natasha.“Bastard, shameless,” she told her. - I don’t want to hear anything! - Pushing away Natasha, who was looking at her with surprised but dry eyes, she locked it and ordered the janitor to let through the gate those people who would come that evening, but not to let them out, and ordered the footman to bring these people to her, sat down in the living room, waiting kidnappers.
When Gavrilo came to report to Marya Dmitrievna that the people who had come had run away, she stood up with a frown and folded her hands back, walked around the rooms for a long time, thinking about what she should do. At 12 o'clock at night, feeling the key in her pocket, she went to Natasha's room. Sonya sat in the corridor, sobbing.
- Marya Dmitrievna, let me see her for God’s sake! - she said. Marya Dmitrievna, without answering her, unlocked the door and entered. “It’s disgusting, nasty... In my house... A vile girl... I just feel sorry for my father!” thought Marya Dmitrievna, trying to quench her anger. “No matter how difficult it is, I’ll tell everyone to be silent and hide it from the count.” Marya Dmitrievna entered the room with decisive steps. Natasha lay on the sofa, covering her head with her hands, and did not move. She lay in the same position in which Marya Dmitrievna had left her.
- Good, very good! - said Marya Dmitrievna. - In my house, lovers can make dates! There's no point in pretending. You listen when I talk to you. - Marya Dmitrievna touched her hand. - You listen when I talk. You have disgraced yourself like a very lowly girl. I would do that to you, but I feel sorry for your father. I'll hide it. – Natasha did not change her position, but only her whole body began to jump up from silent, convulsive sobs that choked her. Marya Dmitrievna looked back at Sonya and sat down on the sofa next to Natasha.
- He’s lucky that he left me; “Yes, I will find him,” she said in her rough voice; – Do you hear what I’m saying? “She put her big hand under Natasha’s face and turned her towards her. Both Marya Dmitrievna and Sonya were surprised to see Natasha’s face. Her eyes were shiny and dry, her lips were pursed, her cheeks were drooping.
“Leave... those... that I... I... will die...” she said, with an angry effort she tore herself away from Marya Dmitrievna and lay down in her previous position.
“Natalya!...” said Marya Dmitrievna. - I wish you well. You lie down, just lie there, I won’t touch you, and listen... I won’t tell you how guilty you are. You know it yourself. Well, now your father is coming tomorrow, what will I tell him? A?
Again Natasha's body shook with sobs.
- Well, he will find out, well, your brother, groom!
“I don’t have a fiance, I refused,” Natasha shouted.
“It doesn’t matter,” continued Marya Dmitrievna. - Well, they’ll find out, so why leave it like that? After all, he, your father, I know him, after all, if he challenges him to a duel, will it be good? A?
- Oh, leave me alone, why did you interfere with everything! For what? For what? who asked you? - Natasha shouted, sitting up on the sofa and looking angrily at Marya Dmitrievna.
- What did you want? - Marya Dmitrievna cried out again, getting excited, - why did they lock you up? Well, who stopped him from going to the house? Why should they take you away like some kind of gypsy?... Well, if he had taken you away, what do you think, he wouldn’t have been found? Your father, or brother, or fiancé. And he’s a scoundrel, a scoundrel, that’s what!
“He’s better than all of you,” Natasha cried, standing up. - If you hadn’t interfered... Oh, my God, what is this, what is this! Sonya, why? Go away!... - And she began to sob with such despair with which people only mourn such grief, which they feel themselves to be the cause of. Marya Dmitrievna began to speak again; but Natasha shouted: “Go away, go away, you all hate me, you despise me.” – And again she threw herself on the sofa.
Marya Dmitrievna continued for some time to admonish Natasha and convince her that all this must be hidden from the count, that no one would find out anything if only Natasha took it upon herself to forget everything and not show to anyone that anything had happened. Natasha didn't answer. She didn’t cry anymore, but she began to feel chills and trembling. Marya Dmitrievna put a pillow on her, covered her with two blankets and brought her some lime blossom herself, but Natasha did not respond to her. “Well, let him sleep,” said Marya Dmitrievna, leaving the room, thinking that she was sleeping. But Natasha was not sleeping and, with fixed, open eyes, looked straight ahead from her pale face. All that night Natasha did not sleep, and did not cry, and did not speak to Sonya, who got up and approached her several times.
The next day, for breakfast, as Count Ilya Andreich had promised, he arrived from the Moscow region. He was very cheerful: the deal with the buyer was going well and nothing was keeping him now in Moscow and in separation from the countess, whom he missed. Marya Dmitrievna met him and told him that Natasha had become very unwell yesterday, that they had sent for a doctor, but that she was better now. Natasha did not leave her room that morning. With pursed, cracked lips, dry, fixed eyes, she sat by the window and restlessly peered at those passing along the street and hurriedly looked back at those entering the room. She was obviously waiting for news about him, waiting for him to come or write to her.
When the count came up to her, she turned restlessly at the sound of his man’s steps, and her face took on its former cold and even angry expression. She didn't even get up to meet him.
– What’s wrong with you, my angel, are you sick? - asked the count. Natasha was silent.
“Yes, I’m sick,” she answered.
In response to the count's worried questions about why she was so killed and whether anything had happened to her fiancé, she assured him that nothing was wrong and asked him not to worry. Marya Dmitrievna confirmed Natasha’s assurances to the Count that nothing had happened. The count, judging by the imaginary illness, by the disorder of his daughter, by the embarrassed faces of Sonya and Marya Dmitrievna, clearly saw that something was going to happen in his absence: but he was so scared to think that something shameful had happened to his beloved daughter, he He loved his cheerful calm so much that he avoided asking questions and kept trying to assure himself that nothing special had happened and was only grieving that due to her ill health their departure to the village had been postponed.
From the day his wife arrived in Moscow, Pierre was preparing to go somewhere, just so as not to be with her. Soon after the Rostovs arrived in Moscow, the impression that Natasha made on him made him hasten to fulfill his intention. He went to Tver to see the widow of Joseph Alekseevich, who promised long ago to give him the papers of the deceased.
When Pierre returned to Moscow, he was given a letter from Marya Dmitrievna, who called him to her place on a very important matter concerning Andrei Bolkonsky and his fiancee. Pierre avoided Natasha. It seemed to him that he had a feeling for her stronger than that which a married man should have for the bride of his friend. And some kind of fate constantly brought him together with her.
“What happened? And what do they care about me? he thought as he got dressed to go to Marya Dmitrievna. Prince Andrei would come quickly and marry her!” thought Pierre on the way to Akhrosimova.
On Tverskoy Boulevard someone called out to him.
- Pierre! How long have you arrived? – a familiar voice shouted to him. Pierre raised his head. In a pair of sleighs, on two gray trotters throwing snow at the tops of the sleigh, Anatole flashed by with his constant companion Makarin. Anatole sat upright, in the classic pose of military dandies, covering the bottom of his face with a beaver collar and bending his head slightly. His face was ruddy and fresh, his hat with a white plume was put on one side, revealing his hair, curled, pomaded and sprinkled with fine snow.
“And rightly so, here is a real sage! thought Pierre, he sees nothing beyond the present moment of pleasure, nothing disturbs him, and that is why he is always cheerful, content and calm. What would I give to be like him!” Pierre thought with envy.
In Akhrosimova’s hallway, the footman, taking off Pierre’s fur coat, said that Marya Dmitrievna was being asked to come to her bedroom.
Opening the door to the hall, Pierre saw Natasha sitting by the window with a thin, pale and angry face. She looked back at him, frowned and with an expression of cold dignity left the room.
- What's happened? - asked Pierre, entering Marya Dmitrievna.
“Good deeds,” answered Marya Dmitrievna: “I’ve lived fifty-eight years in the world, I’ve never seen such shame.” - And taking Pierre’s word of honor to remain silent about everything that he learns, Marya Dmitrievna informed him that Natasha refused her fiancé without the knowledge of her parents, that the reason for this refusal was Anatol Kuragin, with whom her wife set Pierre up, and with whom she wanted to run away in the absence of his father, in order to get married secretly.
Pierre, with his shoulders raised and his mouth open, listened to what Marya Dmitrievna was telling him, not believing his ears. The bride of Prince Andrei, so much loved, this formerly sweet Natasha Rostova, should exchange Bolkonsky for the fool Anatole, already married (Pierre knew the secret of his marriage), and fall in love with him so much as to agree to run away with him! “Pierre couldn’t understand this and couldn’t imagine it.”
The sweet impression of Natasha, whom he had known since childhood, could not combine in his soul with the new idea of her baseness, stupidity and cruelty. He remembered his wife. “They are all the same,” he said to himself, thinking that he was not the only one who had the sad fate of being associated with a nasty woman. But he still felt sorry for Prince Andrey to the point of tears, he felt sorry for his pride. And the more he felt sorry for his friend, the more contempt and even disgust he thought about this Natasha, who now walked past him in the hall with such an expression of cold dignity. He did not know that Natasha’s soul was filled with despair, shame, humiliation, and that it was not her fault that her face accidentally expressed calm dignity and severity.
- Yes, how to get married! - Pierre said in response to Marya Dmitrievna’s words. - He couldn’t get married: he’s married.
“It’s not getting any easier hour by hour,” said Marya Dmitrievna. - Good boy! That's a bastard! And she waits, she waits for the second day. At least he will stop waiting, I must tell her.
Having learned from Pierre the details of Anatole's marriage, pouring out her anger on him with abusive words, Marya Dmitrievna told him what she had called him for. Marya Dmitrievna was afraid that the count or Bolkonsky, who could arrive at any moment, having learned the matter that she intended to hide from them, would challenge Kuragin to a duel, and therefore asked him to order his brother-in-law on her behalf to leave Moscow and not dare show himself to her on the eyes. Pierre promised her to fulfill her wish, only now realizing the danger that threatened the old count, Nikolai, and Prince Andrei. Having briefly and precisely stated her requirements to him, she released him into the living room. - Look, the count doesn’t know anything. “You act like you don’t know anything,” she told him. - And I’ll go tell her that there’s nothing to wait for! “Yes, stay for dinner if you want,” Marya Dmitrievna shouted to Pierre.
Zaha Hadid (certified architect, director of the Zaha Hadid Architects studio).
Biography:
Born in Baghdad in 1950.
She studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut.
1972 - moves to London, enters the School of the Architectural Association.
1977 – receives a school diploma. Becomes a partner in the management of Metropolitan Architecture, working in the OMA bureau of his teacher, the famous architect and deconstructivist theorist from the Netherlands Rem Koolhaas.
1980 – Zaha Hadid Architects opens his own architectural bureau.
Achievements:
2004 – Pritzker Prize. It is called the "Nobel Prize in Architecture." Zaha Hadid - the only woman– laureate.
2010, 2011 - Stirling Prize, established by the Royal Institute of British Architecture. One of the highest awards in the field.
In addition, Zaha Hadid is a laureate of the Imperial Prize of the Japanese Art Association, included in the list of “The Most influential women world" Forbes and "100 most influential people world" Times.
Creation:
Zaha Hadid started creating early, almost in her teens. One after another, she creates projects that bring her awards at various architectural competitions, but remain unrealized. To customers, her approach seems too unusual and progressive.
The first completed projects were the design of the Moonjun restaurant in Sapporo (1990),
Vitra fire station, similar to the Stels aircraft.
The architect gained popularity in 1997 thanks to his participation in the project of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. And Zaha received general recognition in 2003, after the construction of the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, where she was one of the designers.
The main principles of Zaha Hadid are the destruction of standards, dynamics. In addition to architectural projects, she worked in the installation genre, created interior design and scenery for theaters, collections of furniture and lamps (the most famous is Chandelier Vortexx).
Zaha Hadid - grand dame modern architecture. She did not immediately achieve recognition and a worthy place in this almost exclusively male profession, but she impressed with her soft lines, a new approach to organizing space... some special female perspective on futuristic architecture. It stands firmly on the ground and, despite all the fantastic solutions, it is distinguished by a thoughtful, practical approach.
For a football stadium in Qatar (construction is scheduled for 2022), where the concrete will only gain strength over time, she offers one solution, but for the Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow, where it still gets quite cold, she offers a completely different one. There, the broken lines of the facade, however, are adjusted to take into account the snow load.
The Dominion Tower business center in Moscow initially fits into the surrounding industrial “gray buildings”, carefully checking with the “bird” and existing structures, since for an architectural grande dame the main thing is important: that the architecture not only meets the requirements of customers and, sometimes, their unhealthy ambitions , but also made people’s lives a little better. And when it is possible, it will look like a fairy tale.
In our country, of course, it is more customary to indulge ambitions, forgetting about the people around us... But that’s why there are such truly outstanding personalities as Zaha Hadid.
Zaha Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد; English: Zaha Mohammad Hadid) is considered one of the most original, unusual and most successful modern architects in the world, called “the modern Gaudi.” She is considered a real genius, and her buildings and structures of the most unusual shapes are located in many countries of the world and still continue to be built according to the crazy plans of a talented creator.
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was born on October 31, 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq had formally been freed from British rule for twenty years, but the country was still under strong influence Western culture. World-famous architects came to Baghdad; museums and universities were built according to their designs. Zaha's father received a good European education at the London School of Economics, and upon returning home he became one of the founders of the People's Democratic Party, which advocated the modernization of Iraq. Being a successful entrepreneur, he was able to give his children everything they needed to raise free-thinking, extraordinary individuals in them. Thanks to his love and support, Zakha was able to realize herself, ascending to the top of the architectural Olympus and taking a place there that corresponded to her talent, hard work and determination.
Zaha Hadid never wore a burqa and, unlike the rest of the country's population, had the opportunity to travel freely around the world.
There are several versions of why Zaha decided to become an architect. Most likely, this decision matured in her gradually. In one of her many interviews, she told how her parents once took her with them on a walk to the ancient Sumerian ruins, and, impressed by what they had seen, she decided that she herself would build amazing, unlike anything else houses. In another interview, Zaha recalled seeing photos from an exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright's work in a magazine and asking her parents what people who build houses are called. The parents replied that such people are called architects, and Zaha said that she wanted to become an architect. However, at such a young age she had not yet decided on her future profession and wanted to become a singer, fashion designer or even an astronaut. The final decision came to her at the age of 11 in London. Since then, her whole life has been subordinated to a passionate desire to embody her fantasies in concrete.
Having received primary education at a French convent school in Baghdad, Zaha left Iraq in 1968 (her return to her homeland dragged on for more than forty years). She travels to Lebanon, where she studies mathematics at the American University of Beirut.
From 1972 to 1977 she studied at the Architectural Association in London. Having started her career in the OMA bureau of her teacher, the prominent Dutch architect and deconstructivist theorist Rem Koolhaas, in 1980 Zaha Hadid founded her own architectural firm, Zaha Hadid Architects.
He currently resides in Britain and is considered both an Arab and British architect. She holds the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The style of her works refers to deconstructivism. Baghdad native Zaha Hadid became the most famous woman in the architectural environment of Europe and the whole world.
She changed the idea of lines and the organization of space, and although success came to her quite late, Zaha managed to conquer her opponents and introduce new trends into architecture.
Aquatics Centre, London, UK (2005 - 2011)
Deconstructivism is a striking contrast to the polished and carefully planned constructivism. We can say that deconstructivism is surrealism in architecture. Often these are very complex shapes of objects with broken and irregular lines. Also, this style is characterized by an invasion of the urban area in the most aggressive way, that is, among ordinary residential buildings, a building made of glass rises, or among smooth skyscrapers, a low and crooked house suddenly appears, which looks like a lump of crumpled paper, and so on, and this is located in such unexpected In places, it seems that this was not the plan of the builders, but the building fell here accidentally and completely by accident.
Zaha Hadid has become one of the most prominent figures in modern architecture. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2012. In 2004, she became the first female architect in history to be awarded the Pritzker Prize, which is equal in importance Nobel Prize or the Pulitzer Prize. Zaha Hadid was awarded in St. Petersburg, in the Hermitage building. The architect received both awards when she was already over 50. Her path to fame was long and difficult.
Having received her diploma, Zaha began working in the OMA bureau under the guidance of the same Rem Koolhaas, and three years later she founded her own firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, while continuing to teach at the Architectural Association. There are few orders. Clients are frightened by her unusual approach and capricious character, but Zaha never tires of repeating that architecture is not a service discipline, but a formative one. She stubbornly continues to forge her own path, no matter the cost. In 1983, her country club project won a competition in Hong Kong, but it remained unrealized. From now on Zaha for many years turns into a “paper architect.” Her work is admired, she receives many awards, but she cannot build anything. The company deals with small orders, and they say about Zaha that her projects are, in principle, impossible to implement.
Since early, almost adolescence, Zaha Hadid has been constantly fantasizing and working on many projects: both commissioned and on personal initiative. Over the years, she offers options for building an inhabited bridge over the Thames (1966), an inverted skyscraper for the English city of Leicester (1994) and a club on a mountaintop in Hong Kong (1983). Designs the Opera House in Cardiff (1994), Contemporary Art Centers in Ohio (1988) and Rome (1999) ... These and other projects brought her victory in prestigious architectural competitions (the first was won in 1983 in Hong Kong), interest, and then popularity among professionals, but remain on paper. Largely due to the unwillingness of customers to accept its non-standard and original design.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The situation unexpectedly changed when in 1997, according to the design of Frank Gehry, it was built famous Museum Guggenheim in Bilbao. Having gained strength, deconstructivism came into fashion. Zaha was once again paid attention to, and she received an order to build the Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, which itself turns into a work of art, and two years later, the construction of a ski jump in Innsbruck begins according to her project.
Zaha proves in practice that her fantastic ideas can be made real. Gradually she becomes a sought-after architect. Her policy of creative self-expression, which prevails over the principles of ergonomics and functionality, but does not suppress them, is beginning to bear its first fruits.
She begins the construction of the Phaeno science center and the central building of the BMW plant (both in Germany), her projects win competitions and do not leave the pages of architectural magazines. Zaha continues to teach and lectures all over the world, always attracting full audiences.
According to Hadid herself, a surge of interest in her work began after the building of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao was built (in 1997), designed by Frank Gehry. And after participating in the construction of the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, USA, which opened in 2003, Zaha Hadid’s ideas became truly in demand.
Fire department of the Vitra furniture company, Weil am Rhein, Germany (1990 - 1994)
The dark streak that lasted a whole decade ends in 1990, when Zaha receives an order to build a fire station for the designer furniture manufacturer Virta.
This unusual building, similar to a bomber, became an event in the architectural world and made people talk about Zacha as a master of the deconstructivism movement that emerged in the late 80s.
The station is an acute-angled concrete structure that seems to grow out of the ground. The entire structure symbolizes the dynamics with which firefighters have to work.
The fire station of the furniture company Vitra, reminiscent of the Stealth bomber (1993), becomes one of its first designs.
But the fire department and occasional work in collective projects are very little for a full-fledged career in architecture.
Soon Zaha wins the competition for the construction of the Opera House in Cardiff Bay (UK), but under pressure from a dissatisfied public, the customer cancels the results of the competition and appoints a new one, in which Zaha again wins, beating a total of 268 competitors.
Then the customer abandoned the project altogether, and the long-awaited triumph turned into a disaster for Zaha. Her career had reached a low point. There was practically no work, but Zakha did not give up. She decided to go all the way. Gradually, recognition comes to Zaha Hadid.
Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, USA (1997 - 2003)
In 1997, she was offered her first real commission - a project for the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art. This building in Cincinnati was built between 1997 and 2003. It was for the project of the Center for Contemporary Art that Ms. Hadid was awarded the Pritzker Prize, and became the first female architect in history to receive this high award.
The appearance of the building displays Ms. Hadid’s characteristic manner of “cutting” space, creating multi-tiered and acute-angled volumes. The facade of the first floor is completely glazed; thanks to this, the concrete floor turns into an extension of the sidewalk. The massive blocks of the upper floors, lined with concrete and metal, seem to be suspended in the air.
The architect has always tried to destroy generally accepted canons and “stretch” the boundaries of the usual space, giving it a powerful dynamic impulse. For the same purpose - to enhance internal movement and deformation - Zaha Hadid, completely rejecting generally accepted geometry, uses a distorted perspective that reveals sharp angles and curved lines.
In addition to purely architectural work with large forms, Zaha Hadid willingly experiments in the installation genre, and also creates theatrical scenery, exhibition and stage spaces, interiors, shoes, paintings and drawings. Here she hones new forms in conditions of complete compositional freedom or, on the contrary, in conditions of tough tasks. Her small works are in many museum collections, such as MoMA, the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main (DAM) and others. She also gives lectures and organizes master classes all over the world, each time attracting full audiences.
Zaha is the author of several experimental furniture collections. In 1990, she designed the interior of the Moonjun restaurant in Sapporo (Japan), and in 1992, the exhibition “The Great Utopia” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 1999, she was entrusted with the design of the Mind Zone under the Millennium Dome in London.
Her most famous works in the field of furniture design - the Chandelier Vortexx lamp and the Cristal armchair, made for Sawaya & Moroni (Sawaya and MoroniB), as well as the design of furniture and silverware, made for the same company. In 2005, she was elected designer of the year at the first design exhibition Design Miami.
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Zaha Hadid creates installations, creates theatrical scenery, experimental furniture, shoe design, paints paintings, and designs interiors. In addition to the famous lamp of her design for Sawaya & Moroni, she designs shoes for Lacoste and the Brazilian company Melissa (2008), and carries out a project for an ideal home, presented at Imm Cologne 2007 (Cologne, Germany). In 1999-2000 She is the one who designed the design for the Pet Shop Boys world tour.
Design comes to the rescue in the absence of large significant projects. Only in 2001 did Zaha design the Hoenheim-North train station and car park in Strasbourg (France), and in 2002 the Bergisel ski jump in Innsbruck (Austria).
In May 2004, an event occurred that many were waiting for, but few believed in the possibility of. Zaha Hadid becomes the first woman to receive the Pritzker Prize, the most prestigious in the world of architecture. From that moment on, her life changes better side. Critics no longer call her work crazy and unrealistic, realizing that her unique view will have a great influence on the development of architecture in the 21st century.
From now on, Zaha herself determines the rules of the game, and her amazing original buildings begin to gradually change the face of the world in which we live. Her style also changes. Zaha moves away from “classical” deconstructivism, more smooth lines and organic forms appear in her works. Zaha Hadid is emerging as one of the most influential architects of the new century.
BMW plant headquarters Leipzig, Germany (2001 - 2005)
In 2005, the central BMW building was recognized as the best building of the year in Germany according to the Federal Chamber of Architects. Zaha literally revolutionized ideas about organizing a workspace. In her proposed project, the conveyor belt with cars passing through it was located above the administration premises, and not vice versa, as had been the case until now.
That same year, Zaha was chosen as Designer of the Year at the inaugural Design Miami exhibition. Zaha developed an interest in design as a child. In one interview, she tells how her parents bought an asymmetrical mirror in the Art Nouveau style for her room. Zaha was so impressed that she immediately redecorated her entire room, and then the rooms of her cousin and aunt, remembering how she created an amazing interior for a restaurant in Sapporo in the late 80s.
Later, she enjoyed designing furniture and interiors, creating theater sets and stage spaces.
In 2005, she developed the design for the Hotel Puerto America, each of the twelve floors of which was designed by one architect. In addition to Zaha, Norman Foster, Ron Arod, Jacques Nouvel, Catherine Findlay and others participated in the project. The hotel has received many awards and has become one of the landmarks of Madrid.
In 2006, a solo exhibition was held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of Zaha Hadid’s career. A significant part of the projects presented there no longer existed only on paper, but were actually being built all over the world.
Phaeno Natural Science Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany (2000 - 2005)
The Phaeno Museum of Natural Sciences in Wolfsburg was included in the list of the best architectural structures of 2006 and was awarded the Mies Van der Rohe and Stirling prizes. Zaha calls this project one of her favorites: “Phaeno is the most complete presentation of my search for complexity, dynamics, multi-layered architectural space.”
The museum resembles a spaceship floating in the air in defiance of all the laws of gravity, and Zaha herself is sometimes called an “alien” and even a “witch.” People who met her personally say that photographs do not convey her demonic beauty and spiritual power at all.
She, like all talented people, has many enemies, but even her most implacable opponents admit that many of Zaha’s works are truly magnificent. Thirty years ago, hardly anyone would have dared to say this about a female architect, but Zaha has radically changed the situation.
In 2010, the Pritzker Prize was again awarded to a woman - Japanese Kazuo Sejima. Today this no longer surprises anyone and does not cause such a stir as in the case of Zaha, because she was a pioneer.
Zakha has visited Russia several times. On May 31, 2004, the ceremony of awarding Zaha Hadid the Pritzker Prize took place in the building of the Hermitage Theater (St. Petersburg). Also in 2004, Hadid gave a keynote lecture at the Moscow central house architect (CDA). A year later (in 2005), Zaha Hadid gave a master class as part of the ARCH-Moscow exhibition.
Hadid is a member of the International Trustee Committee for the creation of the Melnikov House Museum in Moscow. Even at the beginning of her dizzying career, Zaha set herself the task of continuing the unfinished project of modernism in the experimental spirit of the early avant-garde.
Tectonics by Malevich
She was attracted to the Russian avant-garde artists by the spirit of courage, risk, innovation, desire for everything new and faith in the power of invention. Even during the period of Zaha, he was passionately interested in the Russian avant-garde and in particular the work of the great Russian artist Kazimir Malevich. Many years later she will say that she dreams of hanging “Black Square” in her living room. Thesis Zahi was called “Malevich’s Tectonics” and was a project for an inhabited bridge over the Thames. Zaha took an original approach to her work, abandoning projections and using painting as a design method. She doesn’t like the fact that modern students hardly know how to draw, preferring to use a computer. Zakha was taught the basics of painting by her mother, and for each of her projects she makes several hundred sketches, from which a new architectural masterpiece is then born.
From the fragmentary architecture of her early projects, created under the influence of the works of Malevich and Kandinsky, she gradually moved to complex fluid forms in which the organic principle is increasingly manifested. Architecture has again become an art that gives birth to new amazing worlds. Freeing himself from the oppression of habitual forms, a person learns to create his own routes in space and learns to think outward, and not inward. For Zaha, creativity is a way of understanding and shaping the world.
In an era when religions and philosophies are powerless in the face of the global problems of the 21st century, architecture comes to the fore as an art that can unite people and change their attitude towards each other. The future is coming today, and its shape will be determined by such talented and active people as Zaha Hadid.
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Cultural Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2007 - ?)
Zaha builds not only in Europe, Asia and the USA. Her architectural projects are also in demand in the Middle East. Her work for this challenging region includes the Sheikh Said Cultural Center and Bridge in Abu Dhabi, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bahrain, the Dancing Towers in Dubai and office buildings in Egypt. Due to current circumstances, Zaha cannot return to her homeland yet, but she admits that she was happy to build something in Baghdad.
“I think that first of all it is necessary to restore not even the city and its infrastructure, although this is also necessary, but civil society. - she says in an interview with Itogi magazine, - What lasted for fifteen years simply completely destroyed it, I know stories about how people were forced to sell their children to buy food. We should, of course, use the experience of architects to think about and understand what to do with destroyed cities. Baghdad was an amazing city, just like Beirut once was..."
However, the situation may change. It recently became known that the Iraqi government has invited Zaha to design a new building for the Central Bank of Iraq. If circumstances go well, this project will be the first for her home country.
Opened in Rome in May 2010 National Museum Arts XXI century. Construction cost 150 million euros and at that time was the largest building of all designed by Zacha. In the same year, this museum received the Stirling Prize (Great Britain) for the best architectural design and was named the best building of the year (according to WAF).
In addition to exhibition halls, the Museum is equipped with a conference room, library, workshops and event spaces. Two divisions - painting and architecture - collect, study and popularize contemporary art.
The Romans nicknamed the building "pasta". The spiral-shaped concrete structure with an area of 27 thousand square meters cost the authorities 150 million euros. The building was based on the Montello barracks complex: the classical façade of the barracks houses the main entrance to the museum.
National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy (1998 - 2009)
2010 generally became one of the most successful years for Zaha Hadid. Her company has orders for the next decade; about twenty projects are already under construction around the world. In 2011, it is planned to open the Opera House in Guangzhou, and by the summer Olympic Games In 2012, the construction of a sports complex for water sports will be completed in London. The days when its buildings were not wanted to be built in the UK are long gone. Zaha lost the Battle of Cardiff, but won the war in the capital of her second homeland - Great Britain.
She works a lot and successfully, including in Russia, where she is involved in several projects, including a private house in Barvikha, the Zhivopisnaya Tower residential complex and office building. In 2005, the Capital Group company announced its cooperation with Hadid in the design of the Zhivopisnaya Tower residential complex on Zhivopisnaya Street in Moscow.
In 2012, in the Moscow region, in the area of Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway, a futuristic mansion was built according to the design of Zaha Hadid, the customer of which was Russian businessman Vladislav Doronin. The house called Capital Hill Residence is designed in the form of spaceship built in the village of Barvikha.
Private mansion in Barvikha, Russia
The mansion is made in eco-style - a mixture of modern technologies with natural forms and is located away from neighboring buildings in the middle pine forest. Its area is 2,650 square meters. The two 22-meter towers house bedrooms and children's rooms. In the basement there is a Finnish sauna, hammam, Russian bath, fitness room and guest room.
Interestingly, the master bedrooms will be located at the top of the 22-meter tower, as will the children's rooms. The tower, like the stern of a ship, rises above the house, from which a wonderful view of the pine forest opens.
In 2015, in Moscow, in the Dubrovka area, it is planned to open the Dominion Tower business center, built according to the project of “Zaha Hadid Architects” in Zaha’s unchanged architectural style - in the avant-garde style (the main construction was completed in 2014).
Dominion Tower Business Center
Zaha herself speaks about her work like this:
“I try to convey the emotions that a person experiences when he finds himself in the wild, in an unfamiliar, unexplored place. Understanding nature has nothing to do with linear system coordinates... I'm interested in creating a space where you have a choice of coordinate system. When you find yourself in the wild, you don't have a set route, and you discover places and things you weren't looking to discover. Sometimes you feel lost, but this only emphasizes that there are other ways. Many people are uncomfortable with this approach because people in general don't like to have their ideas of right and wrong questioned. On the contrary, what I like most is changing my opinions. This is precisely the reason why people travel, see the world, and experiment. And it really surprises me how committed people are to one way of being. This needs to be changed, and it needs to be changed constantly.”
Now let's look at the most famous projects and structures of Dame Zaha Hadid. That is, everything is hers best projects that have already been implemented, and those that will soon become a reality.
Guangzhou Opera House, China (2003 - 2010)
Guangzhou Opera House – considered one of largest theaters in China and is practically in no way inferior to Beijing National Theater and the Shanghai Grand Theater. It is the largest performing arts center in southern China.
The theater in Guangzhou has been in operation for 4 years. It took five years to build, spending more than $200 million on construction. They say that the architect admitted that her work was inspired by extraordinary images taken from the field of topography and geology. It is no coincidence that the design has broken lines, which partly resemble river valleys, narrow gorges, and inaccessible canyons.
The main hall of the theater can accommodate 1800 people. The Guangzhou Opera House also has a small hall for 400 people. The theater and multifunctional hall covers an area of 70,000 m2 and is built of concrete, glass and steel. The architectural structure of the building is divided into triangles. Zaha Hadid created the project together with Patrick Schumacher.
Living Stones (Pierresvives) in Montpellier, France. Center for Knowledge and Sports for All
The building, named "Living Stones", houses the archives, library and sports department of the Hérault department, in which Montpellier is located. Hadid planned to create a kind of tree whose branches develop in a horizontal direction. The institutions were located accordingly: the archive, which requires a minimum number of windows, is on the ground floor; library - on the second; and at the top are the offices of sports officials. The common feature is a long lobby with exhibition space.
Sharp corners are softened and rounded this time; concrete and glass seem to flow along the facades. The shapes of the building are repeated in the outlines of the parking lot.
“Pleated” Eli and Edith Broad Museum of Art. Lansing, USA
The museum is located on the outskirts of the University of Michigan campus. When designing the building, Zaha Hadid was inspired by the central part of the campus, built in the brick neo-Gothic style, as well as the lines of the highways passing by. The result was an elongated structure clad in stainless steel. The metal is collected in deep “folds”. Since many people want to touch the unusual building, the steel was treated with special compounds to prevent excessive shine and fingerprints.
The museum covers an area of 4273 sq.m. The exhibitions are located on both ground and underground floors; There was also space for a store, a café and an educational wing.
Galaxy Soho complex in Beijing, China
The Galaxy Soho shopping and entertainment center has recently opened. Its area is 332,857 sq.m., height is 67 m. Four egg-shaped buildings are connected to each other by numerous “suspended bridges”, all together reminiscent of a scene from a science fiction film. It seems, according to Ms. Hadid, the future has already arrived!
Three above-ground floors and one underground are intended for trade; The 12 upper floors house offices. Under the roofs there are bars and restaurants with panoramic views of the city. The two-tier underground parking can accommodate 1,275 cars. The base of the building is a standard concrete load-bearing structure with a span of 8.4 m. The height of the lower floors is 5.4 m, in the office part – 3.5 m.
Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center in Baku, Azerbaijan
A cultural center designed by Zaha Hadid was recently built in Azerbaijan. There is a museum, a library, a conference hall, and a hall for special events. The outline of the building resembles waves or folds formed from concrete; Numerous windows are hidden in the folds. According to Hadid, such a number of glazed surfaces both inside and on the facades will save on lighting.
Built in 2013, the Heydar Aliyev Center is a modern cultural center that has become a new symbol of Baku and all of Azerbaijan. It is a complex structure that includes an auditorium, museum, concert hall, exhibition halls and administrative offices.
The real highlight of the building is concert hall round shape, designed for 2000 seats. The hall is made entirely of wood; this material allows for ideal acoustics.
Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi, UAE
The fourth bridge, connecting the island emirate of Abu Dhabi with the mainland, was designed by the architectural studio of Zaha Hadid. The 842 m long openwork structure is considered one of the most intricate bridges in the world. There is multi-lane traffic here, there is a pedestrian path and an emergency lane. The asymmetrical arches of the bridge resemble sand dunes in the desert. The design easily withstands wind gusts of up to 160 km/h. The bridge was opened 8 years after the start of its construction, in 2010.
Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow
The Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow is a completed project. Initially, the museum was planned to open in 2009, but construction was suspended due to the crisis, and seven years passed from the start of construction to the opening. But it was worth it. Football Stadium 2022, Qatar
The stadium in the port city of Al Wakrah will be part of a grand development covering an area of 585,000 square meters. Its capacity is 40,000 spectators, while the upper tier of the stadium will be removable, which will reduce the capacity by half after the end of the championship.
Golden metro station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Zaha Hadid in front of the Glasgow Transport Museum she designed
Zaha Hadid is a laureate of the Pritzker Prize (analogous to the Nobel Prize in architecture), the first woman and Muslim to receive it, and holder of the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Zaha Hadid died on March 31, 2016 from a heart attack, but her work remains one of the most striking in the history of modern architecture.
Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad on October 31, 1950 in the family of an industrialist, one of the founders of the National Democratic Party of Iraq, a representative of the Western-oriented big bourgeoisie. Already at the age of 11, she decided that she wanted to become an architect. Zaha first received her mathematics education at the American University of Beirut. But in 1972 she went to the UK to attend the Architectural Association School in London. There her teachers were Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis.
She was strongly influenced as an architect by the Russian architectural avant-garde of the 1920s and the work of Kazimir Malevich, but her creative language remains vividly original. Koolhaas called it "a planet in its own orbit." Zenghelis considered her the most talented person who had ever studied with him.
In 1977 she worked for six months in the workshop of Rem Koolhaas OMA, and in 1979 she founded her own bureau in London Zaha Hadid Architects. With her original and uncompromising approach to creativity, Hadid could not handle small commissions for individuals, so she remained teaching at the Architectural Association (until 1987), continuing to design and participate in competitions.
Her project for the Peak Club (1983) on a hill above Hong Kong, which won a major international competition, attracted public attention to Hadid, but remained unrealized because the customer went bankrupt. In 1994, Hadid achieved widespread fame in the UK by winning a competition to design an opera house in Cardiff, but the developer was influenced public opinion, after a year and a half of conflicts, abandoned the project, afraid of the originality of the architectural solution. These and other projects brought her victory in prestigious architectural competitions, interest, and then popularity among professionals, but they remained on paper. Largely due to the unwillingness of customers to accept its non-standard and original design.
Hadid's first completed project was the Vitra fire station in Weil am Rhein (1991-1993), Germany.
Vitra Fire Station | Germany RIM Creation
The situation changed dramatically in 1999, when construction began on the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, USA. From that moment on, Hadid began to be invited to work in different countries peace.
Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, 2003 Roland Halbe
Zaha Hadid's paintings and drawings have been exhibited many times in many countries around the world. Hadid's works are included in many museum collections, in particular MoMA and the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main (DAM).
Hadid's personal life has never been publicly discussed. What is known is that she lived in the historic district of London, Clerkenwell, not far from her office, and her home was a surgically clean space filled with avant-garde furniture. Zaha called herself a Muslim. She passed away on March 21, 2016, in a hospital in Miami, where she was treated for bronchitis. But she left behind her idea of the cities of the future.
Here are a few of Zaha Hadid's completed projects.
UK, Oxford, 2015
Investcorp Building of the Center for the Middle East, St Anthony's College, University of Oxford Luke Hayes
Italy, Salerno, 2016. Marine terminal in Salerno
Marine terminal in Salerno Hélène Binet
China, Guangzhou, 2016. Guangzhou Infinitus Plaza complex
Guangzhou Infinitus Plaza Zaha Hadid Architects
Belgium, Antwerp, 2016. Antwerp Port Authority building
Antwerp Port Authority building Hélène Binet
In the immediate vicinity of Moscow, in the elite village of Barvikha near Moscow, there is also a creation by Zaha Hadid, owned by Vladislav Doronin. A house called Capital Hill Residence in the shape of a spaceship was built in eco-style - a mixture of modern technologies with natural forms. The house is located away from neighboring mansions in the middle of a pine forest. Its area is 2,650 sq. m. In two 22-meter towers there are bedrooms and children's rooms. In the basement there is a Finnish sauna, hammam, Russian bath, fitness room and guest room.
Private mansion in Barvikha, Russia
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, 2017. King Abdullah Petroleum Research and Study Center
King Abdullah Petroleum Science and Research Center Hufton+Crow
Slovakia, Bratislava, 2017. Sky Park complex
Complex Sky Park Penta Investments
Italy, Afragola, 2017. Express station railway Naples - Afragola
Naples-Afragola train station Jacopo Spilimbergo
Messner Mining Museum - Corones. Italy, 2015
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Built in 2013, the Heydar Aliyev Center is a modern cultural center that has become a new symbol of Baku and all of Azerbaijan. It is a complex structure that includes an auditorium, museum, concert hall, exhibition halls and administrative offices.
Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
The Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow was originally planned to open in 2009, but construction was suspended due to the crisis, and 7 years passed from the start of construction to the opening.
Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow
In 2015, an office building designed by Zaha Hadid was built at 5 Sharikopodshipnikovskaya Street in Moscow.
Dominion Tower Hufton + Crow Business Center
The Burnham Pavilions in Chicago were a tribute to the famous American city planner Daniel Burnham. Inside, audio and video installations were shown showing the development of Chicago, from the past to the future.
Burnham Pavilions in Chicago, USA
Zaha Hadid projects in progress
The stadium in the port city of Al Wakrah, Qatar, will be part of a grand development covering an area of 585,000 square meters. m. Its capacity is 40,000 spectators, while the upper tier of the stadium will be removable, which will reduce the capacity by half after the end of the championship.
Football Stadium 2022, Qatar
But in the capital Saudi Arabia They will build a metro station out of gold. According to Zaha, while working on the project, she was inspired by the dunes of Saudi Arabia, the smooth contours of which she tried to give to the station itself. They will also use a new passenger access system, which should help avoid crowding during rush hours.
Golden metro station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
In Serbia, a complex of apartments, offices and leisure space located on the abandoned site of an old textile factory is set to become Belgrade's new landmark. In addition to the programs listed above, the proposed complex also includes a five-star hotel, a convention center, galleries and shops, as well as underground parking for guests and residents of the city
Beko Masterplan mixed-use development in Belgrade, Serbia
The Manhattan house will be in the shape of the letter L, and its inner corner will be built in a zigzag, which will separate the two parts of the building. On the 11th floor there will be 37 apartments with an area of up to 510 square meters and a ceiling height of more than 3 meters. The house will also have a spa, garden and indoor pool.
Residential building in Manhattan, USA
The new university in Hong Kong is set to become an architectural landmark. It will be a complex of educational and research laboratories. The seamless architecture of the building symbolizes the dynamics of current and future achievements and produces an impressive visual effect.
Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, China
In Bonn, the studio took on the task of improving an existing building by German architect Siegfried Wolske. Hadid's work contains two transparent facades facing the river. It is planned to build terraces around the building where outdoor performances will be held.
Beethoven Festival Bonn 2020, Germany
The building in Macau, China, consists of two towers connected at the podium and roof level, with several additional bridges in the middle. The hotel, with a total area of 150,000 square meters, consists of 780 rooms, suites and penthouses, conference halls, gaming rooms, lobby, restaurants, spa and swimming pool. open air. You can admire the view of Macau from the tower from the panoramic elevators. Construction of the hotel began in 2013.
40-storey hotel in Macau, China
Ensemble from " Bolshoi Theater", a museum of contemporary art and a "small theater" (multifunctional hall) will appear on the shores of Meixihu Lake in Changsha, China. Three volumes will be located on a spacious “plaza”, which will be complemented by a deep “courtyard” with restaurants and shops.
Changsha International Culture and Art Center, China
Tall skyscrapers are designed to become the new business center of Dubai. As befits buildings of this scale, it will house offices, a hotel and a shopping center.
Skyscrapers Signature Towers in Dubai, UAE
The 21-storey building in Abu Dhabi, 93 meters high, is a giant cube with a cavity inside that appears to float above the ground. It is equipped with a unique backlight, due to which it looks completely different at night and daytime. During the day the cube is hollow, and at night this space is filled with light.
Opus Office Tower in Abu Dhabi, UAE
The new Tokyo Olympic Stadium will be built on the site of the former stadium, famous for the 1964 Olympics, and will become the country's main Olympic venue. rising sun. It is designed for 80 thousand people, and its area will be 290,000 square meters. m. Completion of construction is scheduled for 2018.
Tokyo Olympic Stadium 2020, Japan
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