Zaha Hadid Architects Block Research Group   Italy   El prototipo de pasarela se construye con piezas de hormigón impreso en 3D sin armar, lo que asemeja su comportamiento a las estructuras tradicionales de piedra, resolviendo los esfuerzos a través de la geometría y no con la acumulación de materiales

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   This cultural complex emerges like an island on ZhongXin Lake, in the Jinwan district of Zhuhai, China. With a width of 170 meters from east to west and a length of 270 from north to south, it is home to three institutions: a performing arts hub with

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   A dreamlike construction seeks to pay homage to the popular literary genre that has thrived in a city of millenarian tradition now turned into a dynamic hub of scientific innovation and research.

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Zaha Hadid Architects has won the international competition to build a cultural district by the harbor in Sanya, a city on the southern tip of Hainan Island, in China. A central axis connects the new district to the existing urban fabric, and divides

Zaha Hadid Architects Ayesa arquitectura Italferr   Spain   The north terminal, inspired by the mountains in the backdrop of the station, is a geometric response to the vaulted system of the south terminal. In both cases, the double-height floors offer visual and spatial continuity with the exterior…

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   One of China’s ancient imperial capitals and the eastern gateway of the Silk Road, Xian has in the past years become an important hub of new technologies. This includes semiconductor manufacturing, robotics, aerospace, and biopharmaceuticals. At th

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   The foundations and underground works for this new financial hub of the Taikang Insurance Group in Wuhan have been completed. The circular composition of three interconnected towers rising 52, 50, and 47 floors contains offices, apartments, a hotel,

Zaha Hadid Architects   Denmark   The team formed by Zaha Hadid Architects, Sweco, and Tredje Natur has won the competition to build a new football stadium in Aarhus, Denmark. The current stadium, which opened in 1920, does not meet the standards required for it to host first-tier pr

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Zaha Hadid Architects has won the competition to design the Hangzhou International Sports Centre. The scheme incorporates a 60,000-seat football stadium, a 19,000-seat indoor sports arena, and an aquatics center with two 50-meter pools. There are als

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   The firm Zaha Hadid Architects has won the competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre in the Chinese city of Xi’An. Evoking the Jinghe River’s meander through the mountains and landscapes of Shaanxi province, the building will fea

Zaha Hadid Architects   United Arab Emirates   Inspired in the desert landscape surrounding the new headquarters of the environmental and waste management company Bee’ha in Sharjah, the different elements of the program – lobby, auditorium, visitors’ center and gallery, offices and cafeteria – ar

Zaha Hadid Architects   Cyprus   Adjacent to the Venetian Walls of the Cypriot capital and taking up part of the dry moat surrounding the city’s old sector is Eleftheria Square, a public park that transforms the zone with tree-lined promenades, green spaces, fountains, and paved are

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   In the Baiyun Central Business District of the city of Guangzhou, the company Infinitus China has inaugurated its new main offices. Containing close to 186,000 square meters, the complex – named Infinitus Plaza – comprises two buildings interconnecte

Zaha Hadid Architects   Lithuania   With a scheme titled ‘Green Connect,’ the British firm Zaha Hadid Architects has won the competition to redevelop the train station of Vilnius and the areas around the complex. It will be part of the Rail Baltic line, for which the same architecture

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Zaha Hadid Architects has won the competition to build Phase II of the International Exhibition Center near Capital International Airport, in Beijing’s Shunyi District. Encompassing 438,500 square meters and rising 45 meters at most, the project enla

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Zaha Hadid Architects wins competition for Tower C at Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base, that will be a major business and technology center of the Chinese city, and will include residential and cultural developments as well as generous green zone

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   The Huanggang Port Area in the city of Shenzhen’s Futian District services 300,000 people crossing over to Hong Kong daily. The new masterplan, focused around two large public squares, marks out three interconnected parts: the harbor hub including of

Zaha Hadid Architects   Hong Kong   Located in the heart of the city’s central business district, beside I.M. Pei’s Bank of China Tower, this 36-floor office building on Murray Road replaces a multi-story car park with a scheme that reinterprets the forms of the bud of a Bauhinia x bla

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Taking in 60,000 spectators, the stadium rises within the orthogonal grid of the new Fengdong business district of Xi’an, the city that is hosting the 2023 championship of the Asian Football Confederation. With new civic spaces and facilities for spo

Zaha Hadid Architects   United Arab Emirates   In the emirate’s skyscraper-filled Burj Khalifa district, Opus ME Dubai of the Meliá Hotels International chain is in a building that Zaha Hadid herself designed before dying in 2016. In a play of solids and hollows, opacity and transparency, the sch

Zaha Hadid Architects   United States   Rising 216 meters and 62 floors, this residential skyscraper is located on Biscayne Boulevard, opposite Museum Park, site of Miami’s new museums

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Characterized by an organic language that unifies the project, this cultural complex harbors a contemporary art museum, a theater seating an audience of 1,800, and a multipurpose auditorium... [+]

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   In Daxing District, 46 kilometers south of Tiananmen Square, is the world's largest terminal in a single building, designed by Zaha Hadid, who died in 2016. Daxing International Airport was built to decongest the Chinese capital's airport at Chaoyang

Among all the Latin expressions that keep giving form to our languages, there is one in particular that has not lost an iota of applicability: panem et circenses. Coined by the poet Juvenal in referring to the peculiar political system of ancient Rom

Along with the 6,800 Russian professionals who signed a call for peace quickly censored by Putin’s government, architects, artists, and designers from everywhere join hands in expressing their disapproval of armed conflict and their solidarity with U

The Richest   Vrushali Padia   Architects who become popular for making iconic monuments make big bucks off their skills. A combination of three disciples of engineering, environmental science, and art, Architecture is an influential career. As the countries continue to grow and h

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has signed an agreement with Hyperloop Italia to jointly design its next phase of works that marks a turning point for the future of transport Hyperloop transports passengers at very high speed safely, economically and sus

As many as 300,000 people crossing the border between continental China and Hong Kong on a daily basis are served by Huanggang Port Area, a strategic enclave for which the London-based firm Zaha Hadid Architects has drawn up a highly ambitious regene

Adif has publicly named the teams selected to go on to phase two of the competition to transform the Madrid–Chamartín station: UNStudio with b720; RSHP with Luis Vidal; Souto de Moura with Francisco Mangado and José María Ezquiaga; Grimshaw with Carl

The firm founded in London by the late Zaha Hadid and now headed by Patrik Schumacher has in the skyscraper district of Dubai just completed Hotel Opus ME, one of those buildings whose hollows perhaps cost more than their solid parts. Contorted to th

When she died in 2016, the most optimistic foreboded a slow death for Zaha Hadid’s studio, and the doomsayers, immediate cessation. Neither one thing nor the other came to pass: the office now run by Patrik Schumacher has not only managed to complete

The death of the Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid three years ago, in 2016, did not bring an end to her thriving firm, as many said it would. On the contrary, it stayed on board a vigorous internationalization phase that has seen the construction o

The first gates of cities were the triumphal arches through which enlightened governments sought to imitate ancient Rome; later, the grand foyers of train stations, true monuments of the industrial city. Today we have the airports, symbols of global

Zaha Hadid's Beijing Airport

Many predicted that the death of Zaha Hadid – quintessential example of signature architecture – would compromise the future of her studio.They were wrong: almost three years after the British-Iraqi succumbed to a heart attack, Zaha Hadid Architects

The temporary exhibition displays projects and designs in a 186-square-meter space at the base of the building by ZHA next to the High Line in New York. The show covers the work of the architect – who passed away in 2016 – since its beginnings in the

Anyone able to look back on the times when Zaha Hadid was still an ‘underground’ architect will easily manage to see the recently opened Napoli Afragola Station as an exaggerated materialization of the project with which the Iraqi-British architect w

A work of the British architectural firm Zaha Hadid Architects, the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre (KAPSARC) has opened its doors in Riyadh. It rises in the desert landscape of the Saudi Arabian capital as a modular structure for

Zaha Hadid Just a few months after her death, Zaha Hadid was awarded the Gold Medal that the Royal Institute of British Architects confers annually on a professional whose work has had a significant influence on the advancement and dissemination of a

The death in March 2016 of Zaha Hadid, of a heart attack at the age of at 65, was unexpected sad news. Since then there has been constant speculation about the future of her practice – which her business partner Patrik Schumacher has taken over the r

(1950-2016) Zaha Hadid, one of the most extraordinary figures of the architectural world, died at the age of 65 in Miami, Florida, succumbing to complications surrounding a case of bronchitis. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, she studied mathematics at the Ame

Architecture parlante was an invention of French architects of the Enlightenment by which buildings explained their functions through their forms, tying up the rational with the expressive. From this arose projects of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude

Richard Ingersoll   A pioneer in the fusion of architecture with parametrics and the first woman ever to win the Pritzker Prize on her own has passed away at the age of 65.

The Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid passed away in Miami, Florida, at the age of 65, last 31 March, after suffering a heart attack. Born in Baghdad in 1950 into an affluent family, she enrolled at the Architectural Association in London after stud

The Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid is the new winner of the gold medal that the Royal Institute of British Architects confers annually on a professional whose work has had a significant influence on the advancement and dissemination of architectu

The design of the Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid for the New National Stadium in Tokyo was one of the strong points of the Japanese capital’s bid to host the Olympic Games of the year 2020, which it won over Istanbul and Madrid. But two years lat

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