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A schoolboy admires Z.Car - a (non-working) prototype for a compact three-wheeler that is on display on the top floor at the Design Museum. Read the rest of this entry »
Last Sunday the Design Museum held a workshop, where kids between the ages of 5 and 11 could ‘Build it Like Zaha.’ To book for this Sunday’s Build it Like Zaha workshop, 29 July 2 - 5pm, phone 020 7940 8783, email tickets@designmuseum.org or book online.
Visitors to the Zaha Hadid - Architecture and Design exhibition have been posting their photos of the show on photo-sharing website Flickr. There are over a hundred images to look at, including these two from a Flickr contributor called Guyp. Thanks to dezain.net for the link.
Zaha’s office have sent us movie footage (at bottom of story) of Metapolis II - a ballet that is opening at the Lincoln Center in New York next week featuring stage designs by the architect and choreography by Frederic Flamand, the artistic director of the Ballet National de Marseille. There will be three performances on 25, 26 and 27 July. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is a (rather poor quality since she was a long way from where we were sitting) video of Zaha speaking at the private dinner held in her honour at the Design Museum after the opening of her exhibition on 28 June. Zaha talks at length about her experiences over the years and the early days of her office in London. The actual movie is below. See also our video of Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic’s speech. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Dyckhoff, the architecture critic at The Times, has written an essay especially for this blog:
They didn’t have spellcheck back in 1982. Which is a shame because Zaha could have done with it. To a word-nerd like me, raised by lupine subeditors who think Lynne Truss is a wuss, and to whom every last apostrophe, every last correctly placed pronoun is a thing of exquisite beauty, close to divinity, the blurb in the exhibition accompanying her winning entry for the early-80s competition to build a luxury club, The Peak, in Hong Kong is enough to start palpitations. There are the inevitable mangled apostrophes (“it’sâ€? instead of “itsâ€?), wayward or absent commas, the misspellings (“seperateâ€?), the John Prescott sentences (“following the demolishment of the existing apartmentsâ€?), the non-sequiturs that actually start out quite nicely (“the architecture appears like a knife cutting through butter devastating all the traditional principlesâ€?). Read the rest of this entry »
Here (below) is a time-lapse movie showing the construction of Zaha Hadid’s Lilas installation at the Serpentine Gallery in London. The structure was completed this week and opened to the public yesterday. There are some good photos of the completed structure over on dezeen; for some snaps taken at the press launch, see our previous post. Read the rest of this entry »
Nadja Swarovski, Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julia Peyton-Jones share a joke yesterday at the opening of Lilas: an installation by Zaha Hadid Architects at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Swarovski (left) sponsored the structure; Peyton-Jones (in hat) is the gallery director and Obrist (white shirt) is the gallery’s international projects director. Read the rest of this entry »
Every Sunday throughout July, between 2 - 5pm, budding young architects can design and build their own amazing buildings and landmark structures at the Design Museum. These workshops are £4 for children, who must be accompanied by an adult £7. Cost includes entry to exhibitions. Workshop are suitable for children aged 5 - 11. Booking is essential to avoid dissapointment.
Book online or by phone 020 7940 8783 or email tickets@designmuseum.org
The picture shows Dhian Dhaliwal, 5, and the ‘modern eco-home’ he built at the Architecture Week kids workshop at the museum. His eco-home features chickens and a fruit and vegtable patch for a self-sufficient lifestyle.
The VIP dinner held in the Blueprint Cafe after the private view of the show the other week was a wonderful occasion, and was rounded off by entertaining and insightful speeches by Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic and Zaha herself. Afterwards, Sir Terence Conran stood up and said the exhibition was the best he’d ever seen at the museum - but we’d run out of camera memory at that point.
Here’s Deyan’s speech first (see below for the movie - it’s a large file so takes a while to load) in which he talks about the Zaha show as well as his future plans for the museum. We’ll put Zaha’s speech up soon. Read the rest of this entry »
