The modern architecture of the world amazes with its extraordinary beauty, which is sometimes embodied in the most incredible forms. One of these bright examples“architecture of the future” is the direction of deconstructivism and the projects of the architect Zaha Hadid. Be In Trend selected 9 of Hadid's most striking architectural projects.
Zaha Hadid is a world-famous British architect of Arab origin who adheres to the direction of deconstructivism in her projects. This trend in modern architecture is characterized by visual complexity, unexpected broken and deliberately destructive forms, as well as a pointedly aggressive invasion of urban environment. Prominent representatives The directions of deconstructivism, formed in the late 1980s, are Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas. In turn, Zaha Hadid is a student of the famous Dutch architect and deconstructivist theorist Rem Koolhaas - having started her career in the office of her teacher OMA, in 1980 she founded her own architectural firm, Zaha Hadid Architects.
Also in 2004, Zaha Hadid became the first female architect in history to be awarded the Pritzker Prize.
2012 — Galaxy Soho complex in Beijing (China)
Most recently, the architectural bureau Zaha Hadid Architects completed the design of a new multifunctional center in Beijing. The architecture of the complex consists of five continuous volumes, which, flowing into each other, form a single space Galaxy Soho. When designing the building, the designers were inspired by the architecture of ancient Chinese courtyards, trying to combine this with the needs of the rapidly developing modern Beijing. The building turned out to be quite futuristic.
2012 - Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center in Baku (Azerbaijan)
The cultural center in Baku named after the 3rd President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev is a complex structure that includes a congress center, a museum, exhibition halls and administrative offices. This center, like the building itself, is considered one of the symbols of modern Baku.
2012 - building in Montpellier (France)
In the French city of Montpellier a spectacular administrative building Pierresvives, which houses the library, archive and sports department of the Hérault department - the capital of Montpellier. According to Hadid, the building looks like a horizontally branching tree.
2011 – Glasgow Transport Museum (Scotland)
Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the Glasgow Transport Museum (Scotland) is one of the newest and most modern cultural buildings in the city.
2010 - Opera House in Guangzhou (China)
In 2011 in Chinese city Guangzhou opened Opera theatre, designed by Hadid. The design of the building is distinguished by the broken lines of the interior and appearance theaters that express general concept Zaha Hadid in the style of “fluidity” and “transfusion”.
2011 - Roca Gallery in London
The Roca Gallery in London was built for the Spanish brand Roca, famous for its bathrooms. The design of the building is characterized by smooth and streamlined shapes, a smooth surface and the absence of corners. Hadid was inspired to make this choice by the beauty of natural lines in nature, where there are no sharp corners.
2010 - Academy in Brixton (UK)
In 2010, the architectural studio of Zaha Hadid implemented the project for the Evelyn Grace Academy school in Brixton (south London). The complex consists of four small schools, which are built in a zigzag pattern in harmony with running tracks and sports fields. 
2009 - National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome
In 1998, a competition was held to design the building for the National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, and the architectural bureau of Zaha Hadid won the competition. In 2009, a building appeared in Rome. This is the largest structure she has designed to date. Construction of a spiral-shaped concrete building with an area of 27 thousand square meters lasted 11 years.
1994 - Fire station "Vitra" in Weil am Rhein (Germany)
On March 31, 2016, Zaha Hadid died in Miami. She was 65 years old, and many say that for an architect this is very early death. Hadid began implementing her projects late, but immediately received the status of one of the main architects of our time. Her projects stand out from the history of architecture: they cling to the history of modernist and contemporary art and at the same time pretend that no art history ever existed. The Village reveals what Zaha Hadid's work consisted of and why her work will live on.
Studying with Rem Koolhaas
Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad in rich family, traveled abroad as a child, studied in American University in Beirut, and then went to study architecture in London, where she met Rem Koolhaas. After working in his OMA office in Rotterdam from 1977 to 1980, she returned to London where she began independent practice. OMA's interdisciplinary approach clearly influenced Hadid, who incorporated concepts from visual arts And natural sciences. The constant theorizing that was done in Koolhaas's office was also important for Hadid, for whom the recognition of her ideas in the first years of work replaced the implementation of projects.
Work at the table
If you look at the list of Zaha Hadid's projects, the first thing that catches your eye is almost complete absence completed projects in the 1980s. At the same time, there are many projects that remain in the form of visualizations and drawings - for different cities and different scales. Her projects won international competitions, but remained on paper because they were too daring - both technologically and contextually. The first building based on Hadid’s design began to be built only in 1986 in Berlin. In this she was helped by German feminists who tried to increase the presence of women in modern architecture in Germany. The construction of the IBA residential building was completed in Berlin in 1993.
Architectural graphics
Hadid became famous in architectural circles long before the implementation of her first project. In the early 1980s, she won a competition to design the Victoria Peak development in Hong Kong. This happened largely thanks to graphic work Hadid, whose drawings both conveyed the concept of her architectural project and could work as completely independent works of fine art. Picturesque renderings of her projects can be viewed on the Zaha Hadid Architects website.
Architect as artist
In general, Hadid’s entire approach to architecture and design can be called artistic. Hadid rejected both modernist functionalism and postmodern irony. Her projects seemed to emerge from some parallel world with their own art history. Her own imagination was most important to her, but because of this she was criticized. Thus, the project of the MAXXI Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome was considered completely unsuitable for exhibiting paintings and objects, so that in many ways it became a monument to itself, and its architecture is better remembered than its collection. Her design objects - from furniture to vases and shoes - look like smaller copies of her buildings, and it is no longer so important whether they are convenient to use.
Russian avant-garde
Hadid has often said that her work - both as an artist and as an architect - was strongly influenced by the Russian avant-garde, especially in the person of Kazimir Malevich. Many of her paintings are reminiscent of his Suprematist compositions, and the titles contain the word “tectonics,” which is important for constructivists. If you place one of her first projects, the Vitra fire station, next to, say, Konstantin Melnikov's Rusakov club, Hadid's connection with avant-garde ideas lost in Russia becomes obvious - although not without irony.
Parametricism and composite plastics
From a manual approach, Zaha Hadid's bureau subsequently moved to a parametric one, that is, a computational one, within which large amounts of data are processed, on the basis of which a building structure is then formed so complex that it is often difficult to perceive by the human brain. It was thanks to this approach that Zaha Hadid became known as the author of projects of bizarre forms - like the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku. But their implementation would not be possible without the use of composite plastics, whose properties allow the construction of buildings of non-standard shapes.
Women's
Zaha Hadid is, in fact, the only female star architect, the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize. It would seem that she could serve as a role model for many women who want to make a career in the world of architecture, but her life seemed to be built according to this male model. Although feminists helped her at the first stage of her career, Hadid herself did not do much for the movement for the emancipation of women. Even if you look at the list of employees of her bureau, there are significantly more male names there than female ones. Especially in the upper echelons.
Scandals in Asia
The last years of Hadid's life were marked by scandals related to the construction of sports facilities in Asia. During the construction of her stadium in Qatar, workers died - and the media, naturally, paid attention primarily to the famous architect. Hadid asked journalists to check the facts more carefully: the design of the building itself was not dangerous for workers, and the fault lay with the Qatari authorities and the developer, who did not ensure proper compliance with safety regulations at the site. In addition, the stadium project in Qatar was criticized for its extravagant shape: it reminded many of a vagina. Although Hadid denied any similarity, this seems rather a plus: the stadium project ironically played on the Islamic ban on images human faces. Another scandal awaited Zaha Hadid in Tokyo: local architects were horrified by her grandiose project Olympic stadium for several billion dollars. Someone compared him to a turtle that wants to drag Japan to the bottom of the sea.
Patrick Schumacher
Patrick Schumacher is a partner at Zaha Hadid Architects, who has worked with Hadid on key studio projects since 1988. Senior designer of the office, he participated in the development of the projects for the Vitra fire station and the MAXXI museum. 28 years collaboration could not go in vain: Schumacher shares the principles of Zaha Hadid and works like shadow ruler her office. So with Zaha’s death, her work will not perish: her ghost will remain with us.
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Today it was reported that British architect Zaha Hadid died of a heart attack in Miami at the age of 65.
Zaha Hadid- outstanding architect Iraqi origin, lived and worked in the UK. She is known as the first female architect to receive the Pritzker Prize (similar to the Nobel Prize in architecture). Zaha Hadid worked in the style of deconstructivism, and the buildings she built are always clearly recognizable. Let's remember once again her amazing works, which are a strange mixture of imagination, art and architecture.
Performing Arts Center project in Abu Dhabi
Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and graduated in 1977. She then became a partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and later headed her own studio, which she did until 1987. Since then, Hadid has repeatedly become a visiting professor at architectural institutes around the world, conducted many master classes in schools of design and architecture. In addition, Zaha Hadid was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and research fellow American Institute of Architects, is a professor at the university applied arts in Vienna.
Zaha Hadid tested the boundaries of architectural design in a series of studies, and also took part in architectural competitions. Zaha's prize-winning projects include: The Peak in Hong Kong (1983), Kurfürstendamm in Berlin (1986), Center for Art and Media in Düsseldorf (1992/93), Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994), Thames Water/Royal Academy Habitable Bridge Competition (1996), Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati (1998), North Holloway Road University in London (1998), Contemporary Art Center in Rome (1999) and Ski Jumping Station in Innsbruck, Austria ( 1999).
In addition to architecture, Zaha Hadid creates furniture; her works such as the Cristal chair and the Chandelier Vortexx lamp are widely known. It is interesting that Zaha Hadid has visited Russia more than once, including to the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg in 2004, where the Pritzker Prize ceremony took place, the laureate of which was Zaha.
Performing Arts Center - a future architecture project in Abu Dhabi
The London studio of architect Zaha Hadid proposed to the authorities of Abu Dhabi and the general public its new art project, the Performing Arts Center, which they propose to build on Saadiyat Island.
The facility will be built in general project Zayed National Mueum. The futuristic architecture of the national museum complex can attract many tourists to the UAE by its very appearance. The concept was based on the passion of the Chief Sheikh of the UAE, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, for falconry. The same strong and swift lines cover the entire building, turning the building into a kind of allegorical object. The main content of this gigantic project will be 5 theaters: an opera house, a music hall, concert hall, dramatic stage and theater for different types creativity.
National Stadium of Japan - stadium project in Japan from Zaha Hadid Architects
However, it should be noted that, despite Zaha Ahdid’s excellent portfolio, her company had to compete for a new contract with other design and architectural firms from around the world, including serious competitors from the “Land of the Rising Sun” itself.
The new National Stadium will be a kind of symbol of Japanese leadership in Asia: the structure will be located on the site of the old stadium, which was also built for the Olympic Games (which were held in Tokyo in 1964 and were supposed to show the world that Japan had regained its power after the Second World War ).
The old stadium is planned to be dismantled in 2015, and construction of a new one will begin at the same time. sports complex. Japan won the right to host the World Rugby Championship in 2019 - it is by this date that the Japanese are going to build the National Stadium.
The design of the future building is made in the futuristic style traditional for many other projects of Zaha Hadid and externally resembles, for example, the Aqua Center in London, opened for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Zaha Hadid's projects are excellent because every detail is thought out in them: even if it is an “ordinary” residential building, the design of the apartments in it will definitely be the focus of attention of Zaha Hadid Architects.
Galaxy SOHO complex in Beijing designed by Zaha Hadid
Construction work on a site of 47,000 sq.m lasted about thirty months, that is, from 2009 to 2012. This is the first project built by Zaha Hadid in the capital of China and, perhaps, her most notable work in Asia.
“No corners” - this could be the name of the concept developed by Zaha Hadid Architects (critical colleagues often call Hadid’s objects more harshly - “remnants”), but Zaha’s colleague Patrick Schumacher came up with a more elegant term - “panoramic architecture”.
The complex has an area of 330,000 sq. m consists of five volumetric elements, but all attention is fixed on four of them at once. These are dome-shaped structures up to 67 m high, smoothly connected to each other on different levels floor platforms and covered walkways. Rounded interfloor ceilings create the feeling constant movement, transformation, transition from one state to another. Four domes form an atrium in the center of the composition with balconies and galleries and several closed courtyards, which can be called a tribute to traditional Chinese architecture. The courtyard in the culture of the Middle Kingdom plays a vital role as a space connecting the interior and the environment.
Official website of the architectural bureau: zaha-hadid.com
In the capital of Serbia, it is planned to build a multifunctional complex on the site of the Beko factory. It will include housing, shops and cafes, a congress center and a 5* hotel. All buildings and elements of the program are connected together as “fluid”, meandering volumes, combined with a similar landscape solution.
The specificity of the project is its location in the very center of the city, next to Kalemegdan Park, near the walls of the Belgrade Fortress. Like So Fujimoto's recent project, Hadid's work threatens to disrupt the integrity of this historical landscape.
In addition, as commentators note, investors often offer to implement projects of foreign “stars” in Belgrade, but it rarely comes to construction: the reason is both in the complex Serbian bureaucratic system and in the tricks of the developers themselves: they obtain a building permit for one project, and sell another, cheaper one. Although a similar method is also practiced in the West, for example, in New York.
In Baghdad, Hadid is going to build an equally ambitious structure. This is the new headquarters of the Central Bank of Iraq.
It will be a 37-story building on the banks of the Tigris with facades lined with glass and light metal. The side facing the river will be fully glazed to provide employees with panoramic views of the river.
Central Bank of Iraq Zaha Hadid Architects
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Cultural Center named after Heydar Aliyev.
"This country, located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, has experienced a dizzying number of occupations and liberations. So just take a deep breath and skip this story to find yourself at the very end, or, to be more optimistic, at the very beginning of a new history of modern Azerbaijan,” notes Discovery Channel host and global architecture expert Danny Forster, who shot one of the stories about the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center based on the project of Zaha Hadid.
This large-scale construction with total area 111,292 square meters will become the dominant feature of the new area in Baku, where, in addition to it, residential, administrative, commercial, office and cultural buildings will also be created.
In the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center itself there will be a museum, a library, a conference hall, as well as a hall for ceremonial and cultural events. The building will have a maximum of transparent glass walls, both external and internal, which will reduce the need for artificial light to a minimum. And the brightest place (north of the building, where sunlight maximum possible) in this complex will be given over to a library.
Taichung Metropolitan-opera, Taiwan. (Metropolitan Opera House. Taichung, Taiwan)
Cairo-Expo-City
For her achievements in the field of architecture, Zaha Hadid became the first female architect to receive the Pritzker Prize in 2004. And in June of this year, Zaha Hadid received the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which corresponds to a knighthood and allows the prefix “Dame” to be used in front of the name. The architect received both awards when she was already over 50. Her path to fame was long and difficult.
Courts of Law (Civil Courts of Justice), Madrid, Spain (Civil Court Building of the Justice Campus complex, Madrid, Spain)
Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Iraq. The girl grew up in Muslim country. However, she was lucky - her father was one of the founders of the National Democratic Party of Iraq, a major pro-Western industrialist. Zaha Hadid never wore a burqa and, unlike the rest of the country's population, had the opportunity to travel freely around the world. At the age of 11, the girl already knew for sure that she wanted to become an architect, and at 22 she went to study at the Architectural Association in London. In 1980, Zaha Hadid founded her own architectural firm, Zaha Hadid Architects.
She proposed options for building an inhabited bridge over the Thames, an inverted skyscraper for English city Leicester and the mountaintop club in Hong Kong. She designed the Opera House in Cardiff, Contemporary Art Centers in Ohio and Rome. These and other projects bring her victory in prestigious architectural competitions, 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.
Fire station "Vitra"
Hadid's first completed project was the Vitra fire station (1994). A surge of interest in her work began after 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 1998, Zaha Hadid’s ideas became truly in demand.
Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art
Today Zaha Hadid builds a lot, builds all over the world, not shy about the bold cost of her own projects. In addition to working with large forms, Zaha Hadid creates installations, theatrical scenery, exhibition and stage spaces, interiors, shoes, paintings and drawings. Her 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 Hadid has visited Russia several times.
Guangzhou Opera House
Architectural design is not only the prerogative of men. In 2004, Zaha Hadid received the Pritzker Prize, becoming the first woman to receive it.
The Pritzker Prize is an award given annually for achievements in the field of architecture. (counts Nobel Prize architecture).
At the time of receiving the award, Zaha was able to implement no more than five modest structures, but ten years later the company that Zaha Hadid founded in 1980, Zaha Hadid Architects, created 950 projects in 44 countries. IN currently The staff employs 400 architects of 55 nationalities.
Hadid did not have a complicated biography. She was born in 1950 in Iraq into the family of a wealthy and pro-European industrialist. She lived in one of the first modernist houses in Baghdad, which became for her a symbol of progressive views and gave rise to a love for architecture. After school, she went to study mathematics in Beirut, from there to London, and practically never returned to her homeland. In Great Britain she entered architecture school, where the great Dutchman Rem Koolhaas became her mentor. Like her teacher, she adored the Russian avant-garde: her graduation project for a hotel-bridge over the Thames in 1977 was one big reference to Malevich. Hadid was so gifted that Koolhaas called her "a planet on its own own orbit» , and immediately after graduating from school he became a partner in the OMA bureau. After three years, she will leave to start her own practice.
Hadid won her first competition in Hong Kong in 1982. with a sports club project on the top of one of the local mountains. Her proposal - a gravity-defying Suprematist composition - brought Hadid fame among specialists. It could have launched her career, but this did not happen: the club was not built, only beautiful axonometric images remained from the project. Paradoxically, the reason was not technical difficulties or the radicalism of the project, and the discussion that has begun about the upcoming transfer of the city from Great Britain to China. The risks of Hong Kong losing its freedom were so strong that a year later the customer chose to cancel construction. Hadid returned to London and, using the money raised from the competition, opened an office and began working at the desk.
She built the first building only ten years later, in 1993 - a small fire station for the furniture company Vitra, which, with its flying canopy-wing, could easily pass for a pavilion by Soviet avant-garde artists of the 1920s. A couple of years later she won the competition three times to create an opera in Cardiff, but it was not built. Before receiving the Pritzker, Hadid had one serious work at all - the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in provincial Cincinnati, completed a year before the award, called, however, the most important new building in the United States since the end of the Cold War.
In the summer of 2014, when she opened her new building in Hong Kong, Zaha Hadid looked triumphant. Aluminum Curved Local Innovation Tower University of Technology, sandwiched between the highway overpasses and anonymous high-rise buildings of southern Kowloon, would seem alien in any environment. Either a rock washed by the sea, or a spaceship that would fit the jockeys from Ridley Scott's Prometheus - its buildings look like cutting-edge technological products, large gadgets, pieces of the future perfectly calculated on a computer, suddenly finding themselves on an imperfect planet. But this was not the reason for the triumph - not the building, but the city itself. For two thirds of her career, Zaha Hadid was a paper architect, popular only among critics. Hong Kong is to blame for its delayed success.
In hindsight, it may seem that awarding Zaha Hadid was a political decision by the Pritzker jury. Imagine: an avant-garde artist with unlimited imagination, a woman in a male profession (not the only one - in the mid-1990s, the Frenchwoman Odile Decq had already achieved fame - but who cares), and also comes from a third world country. But rather, the award was given in advance - with the hope that it would redefine the language of modern architecture. Since 1997, when Frank Gehry opened the deconstructivist Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the world has been swept by the fashion for global superstar architects who have become heroes of popular culture. Hadid was supposed to be the most original of them.
And she did: in 2010 and 2011, she won the prestigious British Stirling Prize for the buildings of the National Museum twice in a row. Arts XXI century in Rome and high school Evelyn Grace in London. The MAXXI Museum, located in the north of Rome, is Hadid’s opus magnum, to which she has been working for three decades. Now Hadid no longer cares about deconstructivism: since the mid-2000s, her buildings have flowing forms, and their design is calculated on a computer as complex equation, connecting all parts of the building. Responsible for the latter is Hadid’s co-author and her bureau director Patrick Schumacher, who is the main theorist of parametric architecture. Working at their desks, they waited for technology to bring their imagination to life, and now they did.
The insides of MAXXI are either the intestines of a strange animal, or the bed of an underground river, washing its way through the thickness of reinforced concrete. If modernist architecture of the 20th century aspired to the sky and was distinctly airy, then the architecture Hadid- “aquatic”, she lives in a world without gravity, and her conditional spaces without floor and ceiling flow into each other. There is something oriental about it, as if Hadid is recalling his native culture and draws designs like Arabic calligraphy. Is it original? Very. The problem is that, having become mass, this architecture becomes predictable in its unusualness. She is so unusual and so alien to a European that she always looks the same, as if Hadid comes up with the same thing over and over again. Moreover, it turns out that this original architecture is not so difficult to copy: the British have already had pirates in China.
Having won the competition in 2007 in Azerbaijan, Zaha Hadid Architects designed the Heydar Aliyev Center. After gaining independence in 1991, Baku strives by all means to move away from the architecture of the Soviet legacy. Built in 2012, the center is designed to express the feelings of Azerbaijani culture and show the optimism of a nation that looks to the future with hope.
Accusations of self-repetition are not the worst thing. Having transformed from paper into a mass architect, Zaha Hadid found herself in a trap: she became a fashionable superstar architect exactly when the fashion for such stars began to fade. It turns out that the Bilbao effect doesn't work; after the 2008 recession, leftism, frugality and social approach. Hadid's buildings - complete opposite: in 2014, she is criticized for the fact that the space in her buildings is used inefficiently, that her work is expensive to build and even more expensive to maintain, that she builds everywhere, especially in China and the oil despotisms of the Middle East, where human rights are not respected at all.
She is blamed for the workers dying during the construction of a stadium that looks like a vagina in Qatar. In response, Hadid and Schumacher argue that the architect should not think about social justice, he must do his job well. They say that their unusual spaces are changing communication between people and that thanks to these buildings, society will become more progressive and humane in the future. They don’t exactly believe them, and the Pritzker jury seems to be jokingly giving a new prize to a Japanese who builds temporary houses out of cardboard for refugees and earthquake victims.
However, Hadid herself is not to blame for this. Throughout the last century, avant-garde architects sold not buildings, but hope for progress and memories of a bright future. But technological progress does not guarantee social justice, and at the beginning of the 21st century, humanity experienced a crisis of faith. No one has flown to explore distant planets, there is no unexpected future - there is only a slightly greener and more efficient present with advanced gadgets. Zaha Hadid has been an avant-garde architect all her life, but now she has nothing left to sell. In 2014, her unusual buildings are just buildings.
ABOUT personal life Little is known about Zaha Hadid's views. She has complex nature, she can be emotional and impatient, but you can hardly deny her charm. She promised never to build prisons - “even if they are the most luxurious prisons in the world.” Because of her career, she never married. She does not have kids. She says that she would like them, but, apparently, in another life. Hadid calls herself a Muslim, but doesn't exactly believe in God. She does not consider herself a feminist, but is glad that her example has inspired many people around the world. She is sure that women are smart and strong.
Zaha Hadid's apartment is located near her office in London's Clerkenwell, and judging by what people who have been there say, it is a surgically clean space filled with avant-garde furniture. White, faceless and soulless - not so much a home as a temporary and uninhabited shelter. Hadid drives a BMW, loves Comme des Garçons, sometimes watches Mad Men, and looks at his phone too often. She has no personal life - she has projects. In 2014, Zaha Hadid was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for the Center for the sixth time aquatic species sports, built for the London 2012 Olympics.
Despite criticism in the press, next year she will open five more iconic buildings around the world, and the year after that another five, and she will almost certainly be nominated for the seventh, eighth and millionth time. Now Hadid is 65 years old, her partner Patrick Schumacher is only 53, almost nothing by industry standards. Their bureau is loaded with work for the next decade. There is no bright future, but they still have everything ahead.
In 2015, Zaha Hadid was included in the list of the 100 most influential figures in Europe at number 59.
The projects of the outstanding contemporary architect Zaha Hadid evoke the most wide range emotions, but they do not leave anyone indifferent. Through harmony and plasticity organic forms, in her works she seemed to be looking into the fantastic future of humanity, materializing it now. We will tell you about 15 of the most incredible projects of Zaha Hadid, each of which can safely be called a masterpiece of modern architecture.
In 2004, Zaha Hadid became the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Her architectural bureau, Zaha Hadid Architects, already has more than 950 successful projects, implemented in 44 countries. Today, the name Hadid itself has become an unconditionally revered brand in the world of architecture.
In its form, a sports facility located in the capital of Great Britain and built specifically for Olympic Games, is not Hadid’s most complex project, but in terms of its popularity it will give a head start to many. International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge called the Aquatics Center "a true masterpiece." According to the author's idea, the shapes of this building imitate the movement of water, and the smooth geometry, combined with curved surfaces, distinguishes it from other urban objects.
2. Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center in Baku, Azerbaijan
It is planned that the new Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center will play one of key roles in increasing the significance and tourist attractiveness of the city of Baku. Its improved form and Hi-tech designs can add a modern atmosphere and freshness to the old city. The structure of the building uses as much as possible possible quantity glass, which, given the peculiar local climate, contributes to sufficient natural ventilation of all rooms.
3. Arts Center in Abu Dhabi, UAE
According to the project of Zaha Hadid, the building of the Arts Center will be located on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. In terms of its artistic component, this 10-story building is a real work of art. It will house six theaters (including one opera house), a music hall and a concert hall. The structure of the future Arts Center, bionic in nature, is quite dynamic. Outwardly, it resembles a branch stretching towards the sea and consisting of a complex and intricate system of paths.
4. MAXXI Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Italy
One of Zaha Hadid's most controversial works, Museum contemporary arts MAXXI in Rome, was awarded the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2010. The constructive system of this masterpiece of modern architecture departs from the idea of a traditional museum and only vaguely echoes the works of art displayed inside it. The walls create a smooth and dynamic flow of interiors into the exterior space of the building.
5. BMW headquarters building in Leipzig, Germany
For the design of a unique office building for the auto giant BMW in 2006, Zaha Hadid was awarded one of the most prestigious European awards in the field of architecture, RIBA. This complex is distinguished by a smooth and very stylish structure, which, in addition to being artistic, also has the function of clear formation and distribution production processes indoors.
6. Private residence Capital Hill in Barvikha, Russia
A mansion near Moscow was designed specifically for Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin and his scandalous fiancee, supermodel Naomi Campbell. The main feature of this house is the 22-meter tower, shaped like a periscope. This almost completely glazed building with incredible views of Russian nature is perhaps the most futuristic project of the famous architect.
7. Multifunctional complex Sky SOHO in Shanghai, China
Four streamlined towers, connected by landscaped sky bridges, form the ultra-modern retail and office complex Sky SOHO. Huge recreational spaces, incredible views of the city and the relationship between various transitions making Gky SOHO yet another standout project from Zaha Hadid.
8. Ski jump in Innsbruck, Austria
The Bergisel Mountains in Innsbruck don't look like the place to find one of Zaha Hadid's masterpieces, but this is where she designed a ski jump as part of the Olympic Arena renovation project. This facility is equipped with two elevators, and on its roof there is a recreation area with a cafe and a terrace, offering stunning views of the mountains.
9. New National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan
The London Aquatics Center is far from the only sports facility designed by Zaha Hadid. In 2018, at the start of the Rugby World Cup, it is planned to officially open its new masterpiece - the National Stadium of Japan, designed for 80 thousand seats. Curves flowing into each other, an exquisite roof - everything here will be done in Hadid’s signature style. The stadium will also include a museum showcasing the country's sporting history and traditions. Once opened, this object will become one of the main symbols of modern Japan.
10. Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany
Opened in 2005 science Center Phaeno in Wolfsburg offers a glimpse into the future of architecture and design. This building has received a lot positive feedback from critics around the world, astounding them with its influence on modern architecture, and cemented Zaha Hadid's place on the pedestal of modern architecture. The object, inside of which you can find artificial hills, valleys and craters, was included in the list of “7 modern miracles Sveta".
11. Multifunctional complex Signature Towers in Dubai, UAE
The name of the complex Signature Towers (from English unique, significant towers) speaks for itself. Everyone has it large city has its own, recognizable landscape. The capital of the UAE is no exception. The purpose of constructing a multifunctional complex is to create a new urban look. The three towers of the complex will house numerous offices, hotels and apartments. This building, like many of Zaha Hadid’s buildings, is distinguished by its revolutionary forms and incredible, incomparable silhouette.
12. Cultural center in Vilnius, Lithuania
If most of Zaha Hadid's projects stand out for their curved lines, then the cultural center located in the capital of Lithuania raises the philosophy of the art of design to new level. This futuristic building seems to float in the air thanks to its cantilever design. This creates a feeling of absolute lightness and mobility. The facade of the cultural center is mostly glazed, which is quite consistent with the author’s style, and its curvilinear and flowing structure stands out clearly against the backdrop of a more static and rectangular cityscape.
13. Civil Court building in Madrid, Spain
Due to the elastic structure of the building, shifted along the vertical axis, it seems as if it is floating above the ground. Its facade consists of movable metal panels, which represent a double shell with a self-regulating ventilation system - the panels are able to open and close depending on weather conditions. On the roof of the complex there is a large number of solar panels. The central internal space is formed by a semicircular glazed atrium, through which the halls court hearings The ground floor receives natural light. The revolutionary form of the building is intended to significantly change the image of Madrid.
14. House on Hoxton Square in London, UK
The house, shaped like a prism, is located in London. He is an example of how, with a rich imagination, you can create something unique from simple geometric shapes. The main goal The architect was to create a system of adjustable lighting. The building includes offices, a two-level gallery and eight apartments. The windows of most rooms offer breathtaking views of the capital's metropolis.
15. Maggie Caswick Cancer Treatment Center in Fife, UK
Founded and named after the late Maggie Caswick Treatment Center cancer diseases Every day he helps hundreds of people fight this terrible disease. The main task Zaha Hadid's role as an architect was to create a beautiful and tranquil image of a building located in a secluded location. This building stands out for its unusual design, which creates a serene atmosphere for cancer patients. The large roof overhang visually expands the building and also creates a picturesque shadow on the glass facade. The Center's premises are divided into common ones, where patients can communicate with each other or meet guests, and private ones, where they can be alone.
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