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Zaha Hadid, Architect, London, Studio, Designs, Photos, Practice, Office, Picture, UK, Info

Zaha Hadid Architects : Information + Images

Contemporary Architecture : Buildings + Projects + Exhibitions + Books



Architect Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She has become one of the most famous architects in the world.

Buildings nominated for the prestigious Stirling Prize include Nordpark Cable Railway Station (2008), Phaeno Science Centre (2006) and BMW Central Building (2005).

Zaha Hadid's style is boldly contemporary, organic and innovative. The architect pushes design through new technology and materials and never does ordinary. Aswell as creating architecture the architect is a celebrated painter, designer of furniture and interior products + fittings such as bowls and chandeliers.

Zaha Hadid - Building News 2010

Latest Designs first

Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, USA : Elevations + Plans added
Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum
building image from Zaha Hadid

London Aquatics Centre, UK : New Image
London Aquatics Centre

Middle East Centre Oxford
, England : New Visuals
Middle East Centre Oxford

Zaha Hadid - Building News 2009

MAXXI Rome, Italy - opened Nov
Maxxi Rome
photo : Roland Halbe
MAXXI Rome : Italy's first national museum of contemporary art and its first national museum of architecture. Criticised by critic Ellis Woodman for placing form over function - but surely MAXXI is not a new direction for Zaha Hadid, it is indeed a major project for the studio, but not a pivotal one in terms of programme or style. It is undeniably powerful and dynamic but like many recent 'containers for art' - such as the stunning 'UFO' in Graz by Cook / Fournier - there exists tension between form and function, between expressive exterior and an interior which its owners will want to function in a certain way.

Glasgow Transport Museum, Scotland - latest progress, 23 Nov
Glasgow Transport Museum
picture © webbaviation
Glasgow Transport Museum

Zaha Hadid Exhibition in Italy : Major Retrospective
Palazzo della Ragione, Padua
27 Oct 2009 - 1 Mar 2010
Zaha Hadid Exhibition
Zaha Hadid Exhibition Padua

Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate
Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid awarded Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate for 2009

Burnham Pavilion, Chicago, USA
Burnham Pavilion
photo courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects © Michelle Litvin
Burnham Pavilion building photos

Zaha Hadid Architects Exhibition : Design Museum, London
Visions For The City Of London, 2009
Super Contemporary - Celebrating Visionary Design from London’s Creative Mavericks

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall, England
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall
photo : Luke Hayes
"A single continuous ribbon of fabric swirls around itself, creating layered spaces to cocoon the performers and audience with in an intimate fluid space." said Hadid.

LACOSTE footwear
LACOSTE footwear
photo from ZHA
LACOSTE launch footwear capsule collection designed in collaboration with Zaha Hadid

Seville University Library, Spain
Seville University Library
image from ZHA

Cairo Expo City Competition, Egypt
Cairo Expo City
image from Zaha Hadid

Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Korea
Dongdaemun Design Plaza
image from ZHA

Stone Towers Cairo, Egypt
Stone Towers Cairo
image from the architects

Mobile Art Chanel Pavilion, Hong Kong
Mobile Art Chanel Pavilion
photo : Virgile Simon Bertrand

Millennium Park Pavilion Design, USA
Millennium Park Pavilion Chicago
image from ZHA

Regium Waterfront Buildings, Italy
Regium Waterfront
picture from ZHA

Dorobanti Tower, Romania
Dorobanti Tower
image from Zaha Hadid Architects

Antwerp Port House, Belgium
Antwerp Port House
picture from ZHA
Genesy lamp - design for Artemide
Genesy lamp
render by Zaha Hadid Architects

Over the years a stunning array of buildings, bridges and products has emerged from the Zaha Hadid office. We've selected what we feel are the key architecture & designs by this London practice, in chronological order:

BMW Central Building, Germany (2005)
Phaeno Science Centre, Germany (2006)
Nordpark Cable Railway Station Buildings, Austria (2008)
Madrid Civil Courts of Justice, Spain (-)
Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre, UAE (-)
Millennium Park Pavilion Design, USA (2009)

Comments on the building selection welcome. These Zaha Hadid designs are not selected due to their fame - we've left out Opus Dubai for example - but because each in its way achieved a milestone and signified strong creative achievement.

Zaha Hadid Architect - Selected Building News 2008

Vienna University Building, Austria
Vienna Library
image from ZHA

Hoxton Square Building, England
Hoxton Square
image courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects

Madrid Civil Courts of Justice, Spain
Madrid Civil Courts of Justice
picture from Zaha Hadid

Lilium Tower, Poland
Lilium Tower
image from ZHA

Guangzhou Opera House Building, China
Guangzhou Opera House
image from ZHA
Signature Tower Buildings, UAE
Signature Towers
picture from Zaha Hadid, Architects
 

We have 5 pages online re Architect Zaha Hadid:


Zaha Hadid : main page - Current Work (this page)

Zaha Hadid Buildings - Older Work

Zaha Hadid Exhibitions

Zaha Hadid Books

Zaha Hadid Architects - All Projects + Practice Information



Other Key Projects by this studio
Pierres Vives building
Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre
The Opus Dubai

Office Contact - Zaha Hadid Architects : London, England, UK +44 (0)20 7253 5147

Zaha Hadid Architecture Book - Gordana Fontana Giusti, Patrick Schumacher
Zaha Hadid book

Portrait photograph of the architect & designer:
Zaha Hadid Portrait
Zaha Hadid photo : Steve Double, Jun 2007

Zaha Hadid - Architecture Background

Education
Architectural Association, London, UK
1972-
Diploma Prize 1977

Career
Office for Metropolitan Architecture - partner

Teaching
Architectural Association tutor with OMA architects Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis

Zaha Hadid ran her own studio at the AA until 1987

Teaching Positions
Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA
Sullivan Chair at the University of Chicago School of Architecture, USA

Guest professorships
Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg,Germany
Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio, USA
Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York, USA

Zaha Hadid was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design for the Spring Semester 2002 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Zaha Hadid was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture.
Zaha Hadid is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

Architecture Competitions
Zaha Hadid has entered, and won, a huge number of design competitions, including The Peak, Hong Kong (1983), Kurfürstendamm, Berlin (1986), Düsseldorf Art and Media Centre (1992/93), Cardiff Bay Opera House, Wales (1994), Royal Academy Habitable Bridge Competition, London (1996), the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (1998), University of North London Holloway Road Bridge (1998), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rome (1999), Bergisel Ski-jump, Innsbruck, Austria (1999), Placa de les Artes, Barcelona (2001), Masterplan for Singapore's Science Hub (2001), Ordrupgaard Museum Building Extension, Copenhagen (2001) and the temporary Guggenheim Museum, Tokyo (2002).

Despite architecture competition entries in the UK for the V&A Museum's Boilerhouse Gallery, Habitable Bridge Competition design, Hackney Empire Theatre, all London, and of course the Cardiff Bay Opera House design, the first real buildings by Zaha Hadid are in Scotland.






Hotel Puerta America interior, Spain

Zaha Hadid design : Milan Furniture Fair

Pritzker Prize Architecture Award : Winner 2004

Zaragoza Expo Bridge : Architecture Competition winner

London Architecture



 
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