Zaha Hadid
Architecture and Design

Visions For The City Of London

Currently showing at the Design Museum is Zaha Hadid’s new commission, Visions For The City Of London. Showing until 4 October 2009 as part of Super Contemporary - Celebrating Visionary Design from London’s Creative Mavericks.

The Idea:
Could London be designed to evolve differently from the way it has to date? Zaha Hadid invites you to take a step
back and reconsider the DNA of London. In the Visions or the City of London, Hadid poses several questions,
asking the visitor to reflect on their surroundings, taking nto consideration the existing infrastructure, whilst
challenging current systems. Themes covered in these questions include: what type of buildings should be next
to one another and how do we live and work in different types of neighbourhoods? This project is not a solution
but in approach for understanding the city’s structure and considering London’s character for the future.

The Design:
Setting a design principle of change, this proposal is both a vision and a template for a process. The interactive
urban landscaping tool is based on a principle of shaping London’s building blocks according to opposing forces. Step up to the screen and see the city change according to different decisions. The computergenerated simulation devised by Zaha Hadid Architects is working model, a move forward from previous sketches offering a new theory for urban master-planning.

The Designer:
Originally from Iraq, Zaha Hadid established her London practice in 1980 and has since challenged her contemporaries with the exploration of new spatial concepts in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic in the fields of urbanism, architecture and design. She won the Pritzker Prize in 2004, and has designed the Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games.

With thanks to Autodesk

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