Riverside Museum, Glasgow by Zaha Hadid Architects
Glasgow’s gleaming new Riverside Museum, designed by the Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid to house the city’s fascinating transport and travel collections, will open to the public on 21 June. The historical development of the Clyde and the city is a unique legacy; with the site situated where the Kelvin flows into the Clyde the building can flow from the city to the river. In doing so it can symbolize a dynamic relationship where the museum is the voice of both, linking the two sides and allowing the museum to be the transition from one to the other.
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Sneaker by Zaha Hadid for Lacoste
Lacoste have partnered with the internationally renown Zaha Hadid Architects to release a capsule collection of footwear. The Pritzker Prize winning deconstructivist architect used a digitized version of the iconic Lacoste crocodile logo as a basis to explore surfaces with repeated patterns.
Triflow Tap by Zaha Hadid
Architect Zaha Hadid has designed a tap for British manufacturer Triflow. The touch sensitive controls can deliver filtered or unfiltered hot and cold water via two channels in the faucet neck.
Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid
Mobile Art has landed Chanel’s ‘pack-away’ gallery space orchestrated by Karl Lagerfeld and architect Zaha Hadid. The resulting structure is very much inspired by the work -elegant, functional, and versatile both in its overall structure and detail. The architectural structure of the Pavilion is a series of continuous arch-shaped elements, with a courtyard in its central space.
Dune Formations by Zaha Hadid
The body of work has been created exclusively for the David Gill Galleries London and is a continuation of Hadid’s research and exploration into the dialogue of material geometry.
An organic ensemble of shelving, tables, benches and sculptural display pieces inspired by the natural forms of their sandy namesakes, Dune Formations employ the same fluid curves and suggestion of undulating motion that are characteristic of her recent creative output.
Szervita Square in Budapest
Zaha Hadid has designed a landmark building for Szervita Square in the historic centre of Budapest, Hungary.
The mixed-use building, for ORCO Property Group, will replace a communist-era car park and will contain shops, restaurants, offices and a nightclub.
Cultural District of Saadiyat Island by Celebrity Architects
Zaha Hadid: Performing Arts Centre
The designs presented here in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates and one of the world’s top oil producers, are to be built on an island just off the coast and include three museums designed by the celebrity architects Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando, as well as a sprawling, spaceshiplike performing arts center designed by Zaha Hadid.
The project also calls for a national museum and a biennial exhibition space composed of 19 pavilions designed by smaller names and snaking along a canal that cuts through the island. Art schools and an art college are also planned.
Ideal House by Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid approached this cube as a huge block to be hollowed out and morphed into a charming sequence of rooms that lead into one another and also open up wide to the outside. Compared to the more open structures of fukasawa’s project, hadid’s ideal house retains the traditional form of the home as a unit and protective shell. The two-story structure has no roof, the walls and furniture appear to grow directly out of a floor that in some cases is totally uneven, and the ceiling is an arched sky.
Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 – 2006
Experiment and Utopia 1956-2006 is an exhibition opening next month at the Barbican in London. It will include 300 modes, models and animations by the most radical architects of the past 50 years. The exhibition will show how the filmmaker and architects have dreamed the city of tomorrow.
Today, we are used to very futuristic concepts that can be built. In the earlier decade, it was rarely the case. From Archigram to Zaha Hadid via Shigeru Ban and Superstudio, there are all bringing their vision of the future.
design.05 Miami
design.05 Miami made its debut last Thursday and the show is closing its doors today. It was a good opportunity to discover great new art and design, to meet nice people and to party a lot. The design.05 Miami Designer of the Year award went to Zaha Hadid. The amazing furnitures were surrounded by a breathtaking, four story installation she made specially for the show (see photo above). design.05 Miami succeeded in making more than a furniture show – they brought together the best designers, collectors, connoisseurs and architects from around the world.
