Zaha Hadid (Taschens Basic Architecture) by Philip Jodidio Publication Date: June 7, 2012 Buy new: $9.99 (Visit the Hot New Releases in Professional & Technical list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description
The iconic work of a singular architect Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said her work was unbuildable. Yet over the...Read Full Story
Zaha Hadid (Taschens Basic Architecture) by Philip Jodidio Publication Date: June 7, 2012 Buy new: $9.99 (Visit the Hot New Releases in Professional & Technical list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Click Check Price and More ReviewsRead Full Story
Zaha Hadid has been confirmed as one of the architects shortlisted for the international competition to design a new, $1 billion Iraqi parliament complex in Baghdad. Located in the middle of the city, the new complex will be challenged with the remnants of a partially built super mosque planned by Saddam Hussein. Massive 50m (165 ft) reinforced concrete columns tower over the site, as construction was halted by the US-led invasion in 2003.
The parliament building promises to be still...Read Full Story
London owns the mightiest construction of ROCA London Gallery which is greatly designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. Being located in Station Court Imperial Wharf, London of England, the existing gallery occupies total project area of around 1,100 square meters. The outside view of the building means to be so sophisticated continued on to the interior which is very stylish and being second to none. The carving interior design flows through the main gallery space of the building. The exterior...Read Full Story
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Baghdad-born Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid is best known for her gravity-defying works of deconstructivist institutional and commercial architecture – it should come as no surprise, then, that her Capital Hill Villa overlooking Moscow should be a massive wonder more luxurious than any mere mortal home.
As in many of her more public works, a mix of steel, glass and concrete towers over its surroundings, definitely an object-in-the...Read Full Story
Frank Gehry‘s Guggenheim and Jean Nouvel‘s Louvre, both in Abu Dhabi, haven’t been the only high-profile Middle Eastern projects placed on shaky ground due to the recent turmoil in the region. The Guardian is reporting that internationally-renowned architect Zaha Hadid has seen her firm’s profits cut by more than half because of the Arab Spring. Despite news like her winning the Stirling Prize for the second year in a row, and landing...
"Profits at Zaha Hadid Architects more than halved last year as the Arab spring brought several major projects to a halt. A conference centre and a complex of offices and shops in Cairo were put on hold, as was a conference hall in the Libyan capital, Tripoli."...
Profits at Zaha Hadid Architects more than halved last year as the Arab spring brought several major projects to a halt. A conference centre and a complex of offices and shops in Cairo were put on hold, as was a conference hall in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
When architect Zaha Hadid walks into the Philadelphia Museum of Art, conversation stops. Dressed all in black,she strides purposefully across the vast exhibition hall, her presence nearly dwarfing even the mural-sized Marc Chagall stretching ...
Zaha Hadid (born October 31, 1950) is a British-Iraqi architect. Her designs have been theoretically influential and groundbreaking, although not all of them have actually been constructed. She is currently a professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- An arrestingly curvy white structure has landed amid the startled trees of Manhattan's Central Park, courtesy of Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel SA. It's a transportable art gallery commissioned by fashion designer Lagerfeld, the ...