Movies

Dunes in Venice - the movie

Jun 21st, 2007

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Online architecture TV channel archiworld.tv has given us this movie showing the installation of Zaha Hadid’s Dune Formations in Venice earlier this month. The film shows the sculptural forms arriving by canal barge, being hoisted up several storeys of scaffolding and manhandled up the staircases of the Scuola dei Mercanti, where the installation was presented during the Venice art biennale by David Gill Galleries. Above is a screen-shot from the movie; the actual movie is below… Read the rest of this entry »

Zaha at The Opus press launch

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…