As the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architect Zaha Hadid, of Iraqi and British descent, made history. She designed buildings in an aggressively futuristic style with curved facades, acute angles, and the use of materials like concrete and steel. She used the sturdiest substances in the world and bent them into shapes that look both soft and robust. Her structures are striking and stand out due to their distinctive design, quality, and shape.
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Heydar Aliyev Centre
The Heydar Aliyev Center, a 57,500 m2 (619,000 sq ft) building complex in Baku, Azerbaijan, is known for its distinctive architecture and flowing, curved style that avoids sharp angles. It was created by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid. Heydar Aliyev (1923-2003), the first secretary of Soviet Azerbaijan from 1969 to 1982 and the president of the Azerbaijan Republic from October 1993 to October 2003, is honored by having the facility bear his name.
Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport
The Riverside Museum (formerly known as the Glasgow Museum of Transport) is a museum in Glasgow, housed in a building at Pointhouse Quay in the Glasgow Harbour regeneration district of Glasgow, Scotland. The building opened in June 2011, winning the 2013 European Museum of the Year Award. It houses many exhibits of national and international importance. The Govan-Partick Bridge will provide a pedestrian link from the museum across the Clyde to Govan. It is set to be completed in 2023.
Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum
The Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum, also known as “Betile”, is a planned contemporary art museum in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, designed by Zaha Hadid. Work is in progress to build it on the Sant’Elia promenade, near to the Stadio Sant’Elia football stadium.
Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre
The new Performing Arts Centre (PAC), one of five major cultural institutions located on on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, houses five theatres – a music hall, concert hall, opera house, drama theatre and a flexible theatre with a combined seating capacity for 6,300.
Wangjing SOHO
In Wangjing, Beijing, China, between the city center and Beijing Capital International Airport, there is a group of three curved, asymmetric skyscrapers known as Wangjing SOHO. The buildings include both office and retail space. The SOHO was originally intended to be a two-tower complex, but due to height restrictions, it was reconfigured as a three-tower building with towers that could only rise to lower maximum heights. The complex, one of more than a dozen buildings created by SOHO China, had its debut on September 20, 2014. The tallest of the trio of skyscrapers is the seventh-tallest structure created by a woman worldwide.
King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station
The King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) Metro Station will serve as a key interchange on the new Riyadh Metro network for Line 1, as well as the terminus of Line 4 (for passengers to the airport) and Line 6. The local monorail can also be accessed from the station via a sky bridge. With six platforms over four public floors and two levels of underground car parking, the KAFD Metro Station will be integrated within the urban context of the financial district, responding to the functional requirements of a multimodal transport center and the district’s future vision. The project extends beyond the simple station typology to emphasize the building’s importance as a dynamic, multi-functional public space; not only an intermediate place perceived through quick transitions, but also a dramatic public space for the city.
One Thousand Museum
One Thousand Museum is a high-rise residential condominium in Miami, Florida, United States. The building, which is located at 1000 Biscayne Boulevard, across from Museum Park, was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid. After the death of Hadid, the Project Director of Zaha Hadid Architects, Chris Lepine, completed the project. Completed in 2019, the 62-story building stands at a height of 707 feet (215 m), making it one of the tallest buildings in Miami.
Leeza SOHO
A skyscraper called Leeza SOHO, often referred to as Li Ze Tower, is situated in Beijing, China’s Lize Financial Business District. Land use rights were purchased by SOHO China in 2013 for 1.922 billion RMB ($288 million). The building, along with Galaxy SOHO and Wangjing SOHO, was developed by SOHO China and started construction in 2015. It was opened on November 19, 2019, making it the third of three buildings designed by Zaha Hadid.
Mandarin Oriental, 600 Collins Street
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group has signed a management contract for a new signature hotel and branded residences to be developed in Melbourne, Australia. The project is expected to open in 2023, and is the Group’s first announced property in Australia. The hotel and residences will be located on Collins Street, in the mixed-use 185-metre tower designed by Zaha Hadid, and will play a part in the ongoing regeneration of the city’s Central Business District. Located in the heart of Melbourne’s financial and legal district, the project is close to the Docklands and the Southbank tourist and entertainment precinct.
Morpheus Hotel
Melco Resorts & Entertainment runs the neo-futuristic luxury hotel Morpheus in Macau, one of China’s Special Administrative Regions. The interior features a gaming floor, a rooftop pool, a modern-art gallery, and restaurants by chefs like Alain Ducasse. TIME calls it “the world’s first free-form exoskeleton-bound high-rise: a grid of steel envelops 40 stories of glass with a fluidity inspired by Chinese jade carving.” The hotel reaches a height of 160 meters.
Beijing Daxing International Airport
Beijing Daxing International Airport, is one of two international airports serving Beijing, the other one being Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK). It is located on the border of Beijing and Langfang, Hebei Province. It has been nicknamed “the starfish.” It was completed on June 30, 2019, and began operations on September 26, 2019.
Opus
Located within Burj Khalifa district of Dubai, the Opus by Zaha Hadid Architects for Omniyat will house the first ‘ME by Melia’ hotel in the Middle East. Operated by Melia Hotels International, one of the world’s leading hoteliers with more than 350 hotels in 39 countries, ‘ME by Melia’ hotels are located in cultural capitals across the globe with their progressive, design-driven approach. The Opus is designed as two separate towers that coalesce into a singular whole taking the form of a cube. The cube is then ‘carved’, creating a central void that is an important volume within the building in its own rightproviding views to the exterior from the centre of the building. The free-formed fluidity of this eight-storey void contrasts with the precise orthogonal geometry of the surrounding cube.
Mercury Tower
Introducing an iconic new development set to establish Malta’s place in the global design and architectural sphere. Challenging the rule that a building has to be 90 degrees, Zaha Hadid designed ‘the Twist’, an architectural feat which defies the conventional rules of engineering. It is this very ethos which
underpins the very fabric of our business, and operation. Anchoring a new quarter of vibrant public spaces, restaurants, bars, cafes, entertainment facilities and curated retail, Mercury Towers is an unforgettable farewell from one of the world’s most exceptional Architects.
CECEP Shanghai Campus
As expected in an architecture competition for China’s leading sustainability investment company, sustainability is embedded into every aspect of Zaha Hadid Architect’s competition winning design. A mixed-use campus of three office towers will include shopping, dining and leisure facilities linked together by a park. The 218,000 m2 headquarters, located adjacent to the Yangpu Bridge on the Huangpu River, will set new benchmarks for energy conservation, energy efficiency and sustainability.
Tower C
A pair of supertall skyscrapers united by planted terraces will define the mixed-use Tower C development, which Zaha Hadid Architects is designing for Shenzhen, China. Designed for a new financial centre called the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base, Tower C is set to become one of the tallest buildings in the city at nearly 400 metres in height.
Galaxy Soho
The Galaxy SOHO project in central Beijing for SOHO China is a 330 000m2 office, retail and entertainment complex that will become an integral part of the living city, inspired by the grand scale of Beijing. Its architecture is a composition of five continuous, flowing volumes that are set apart, fused or linked by stretched bridges. These volumes adapt to each other in all directions, generating a panoramic architecture without corners or abrupt transitions that break the fluidity of its formal composition.
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