Jun 13th, 2007
This design for a mobile exhibition venue for fashion brand Chanel was launched in Venice last week during the Art Biennale opening weekend.
Venice was also the venue for Hadid’s Dune Formations installation.
Below is some info about the Chanel project from Zaha’s office: Read the rest of this entry »
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Jun 12th, 2007
Here is a (very shaky) video of Zaha Hadid at the launch of The Opus, a design for a new office building for Omniyat Properties at Business Bay in Dubai.
In the clip Zaha explains the concept behind the project, which is based around the idea of a cube that has been eroded at its centre.
The launch was held at The Lanesborough Hotel in London a couple of weeks ago; see images of the project over on dezeen.
Apologies for the amateurish quality of the movie, which is not helped by the fact that the photographer sitting directly in front keeps craning his head and blocking our view…
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Jun 11th, 2007
Here are some more photos plus a project description of BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany by Zaha Hadid Architects. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jun 8th, 2007
Zaha Hadid was in Venice this week to open her Dune Formations installation (above) during the Art Biennale. More info and pictures of the installation over on dezeen.
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Jun 8th, 2007
Patrik Schumacher is a partner at Zaha Hadid Architects. A respected writer, teacher and theorist, Schumacher is also the key architect at the office beside Hadid herself. He sets the design direction for many of the projects and is often credited alongside Hadid as the co-architect.
Schumacher gave us an exclusive interview last week in which he talked about how new architectural ideas are generated, how the office has developed over the two decades he has worked there, and where he thinks Zaha Hadid Architects fit into the canon of architectural history. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jun 5th, 2007
Here are a couple of recent photos of construction work on Guangzhou Opera House in China by Zaha Hadid Architects, plus renderings and a project description.
The building, which is project directed by architect Woody Yao (see interview, previous post), consists of two “boulder” formations and reflects Hadid’s increasing interest in dune-like formations. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jun 4th, 2007
The other day we went to speak to Woody Yao (above - sorry about the photo, a better one is coming soon!), the project director at Zaha Hadid Architects who is in charge of the forthcoming exhibition at the Design Museum in London (below). Read the rest of this entry »
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May 31st, 2007
Welcome to the Zaha Hadid blog! With a month to go before the opening of the ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN exhibition at the Design Museum in London, we’ll be using this blog to post news about the show as well as interviews, photos and comments from a range of invited contributors (more details on who they are soon).
To get things started, we spent the afternoon today at Zaha’s studio in Clerkenwell, London, talking to Zaha and some of the key people in her office.
We weren’t expecting Zaha to be around but she arrived in the boardroom while we were there and chatted with us between texting her friends (she’s an avid texter) and having meetings with her staff.
While we were there we did in-depth interviews with project director Woody Yao, who is the architect in charge of the exhibition at the Design Museum, and partner Patrik Schumacher (below). We forgot to take a photo of Woody unfortunately.
We’ll be posting these interviews in the near future, plus hopefully we’ll be doing an interview with Zaha herself in the next week or so.
Another key person at Zaha’s office is her head of press Roger Howie, although Roger wasn’t quite so keen to have his photograph taken (above).
Zaha’s office is in a converted Victorian school. Her 250 staff are housed in several rooms that used to be classrooms.
The boardroom has a sculpture by Zaha in carved polystyrene hanging from the ceiling (below).
Paintings, models and studies for architectural projects are mounted on one wall (below). Most of them relate to the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinatti, USA, which opened in 2003.
Well that’s what we did today; we’ll be putting more stuff up over the coming days, so please come back soon.
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