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Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA (Arabic: زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a key figure in architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.
Zaha Hadid Architects is a British architecture and design firm founded by Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), with its main office situated in Clerkenwell, London. [3] After the death of "starchitect" Hadid, Patrik Schumacher became head of the firm. At the time with a staff of 400, with 36 projects across 21 countries. [4]
Hadid received the Gold Medal for Architectural Design, British Architecture for this design. [5] Parc de la Villette: 1982–1983 Paris: France: Not realised. Design of a park housing public facilities devoted to science and music and located outside central Paris. [4] Bernard Tschumi's project eventually won the competition. The Peak [6] 1982 ...
Signature Towers (formerly known as Dancing Towers) was a under construction for a three-tower, mixed-use complex in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.It was designed by Iraqi born architect Zaha Hadid after winning an international design competition which included proposals from OMA [3] and Reiser & Umemoto among others.
From a pool of 25 international architects , the BMW jury chose the very innovative design of Zaha Hadid as the final piece of the BMW plant in Leipzig, Germany. With no real precedent for her design, Zaha Hadid's Central Building can only be related to the revolutionary and monumental industrial designs of the past including Fiat Lingotto Factory by G. Matté-Trucco and the AEG Turbine ...
The Bridge Pavilion (Spanish: Pabellón Puente) is a building designed by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid that was constructed for the Expo 2008 in Zaragoza as one of its main landmarks. It is an innovative 280-metre-long (919 ft) covered bridge that imitates a gladiola over the river Ebro , connecting the neighbourhood of La Almozara [ es ...
This was won by a group led by Zaha Hadid and Christos Passas. [ 11 ] [ 3 ] "Eleftheria Square constitutes a dramatic and historically significant 'architectural' intervention - an aspiration to reconnect the ancient city's massive fortified Venetian Walls and moat with the modern city and beyond - a bold vision of coherence and continuity ...
The structure was designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. [1] According to The Telegraph the curvilinear walls of the towers evoke "dancing Chinese fans", [1] while Der Spiegel describes the three tower complex as "resembling curved sails that appear to swim across the surface of the Earth when viewed from the air". [4]