Jul 20th, 2007
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 »
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Jul 19th, 2007
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 »
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Jul 13th, 2007
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 »
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Jul 11th, 2007
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 »
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Jul 9th, 2007
Famous designers including Stella McCartney, Ron Arad, Nigel Coates and Tom Dixon - and Zaha herself of course - were at the private view for the Zaha show at the Design Museum the other week. This video by Gemma Coombs shows them all milling at the party with the likes of Tate Modern director Sir Nicholas Serota and Sir Terence Conran. Above is a still from the movie; the actual movie is below. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jul 5th, 2007
In our latest movie, Zaha Hadid, Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic and Woody Yao (the architect at Zaha’s office who put the exhibition together) face the press to talk about the exhibition and answer questions. Above is a screen grab from the movie; the actual movie is below. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jul 3rd, 2007
Here is a short interview with Zaha that we conducted at the press preview of the exhibition last week. In it, Zaha talks about the exhibition, as well as about the difference between designing furniture and buildings, and the impact she feels her work has had on architecture. Above is a screen grab from the movie; the actual movie is below. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jul 3rd, 2007
In this interview we conducted last week, Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic introduces the exhibition and talks about the reasons why he chose Zaha Hadid as the subject of his first major architecture exhibition. Above is a screen shot from the movie; the actual movie is below. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jun 25th, 2007
Zaha Hadid took part in an architecture debate called 2012 Wishlist: What do you want for London? at Tate Modern on Saturday. The event was part of the Debate London series of discussions about how the city should use the opportunity of the Olympic Games in 2012 to change for the better. A Flash movie of the debate is on the Debate London website.
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Jun 22nd, 2007
Form Informing Urbanism - Parametric Urbanism is an animated film created by Zaha Hadid Architects for the Global Cities exhibition at Tate Modern, which opened in London on Wednesday. Above is a screen-grab from the movie; the actual move is below… Read the rest of this entry »
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