gallery activity sheets
Sep 17th, 2007 
This is the cover of the Zaha Hadid activity packs that are given to every child who visits the museum.
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zaha wins london design medal
Sep 18th, 2007
Last night, the London Design Medal was awarded to Zaha Hadid by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone at the opening ceremony of the London Design Festival at the Royal Festival Hall. The medal, designed by Pentagram partner Domenic Lippa, was launched for the first time this year, and it acknowledges the depth of design talent in the
Here is the Urban Nebula installtion that Zaha Hadid Architects designed for the London Design Festival. Read the rest of this entry »
design overtime late night opening
Sep 10th, 2007
Design Overtime returns! Friday 5 October. See Zaha Hadid - Architecture and Design until 10pm. And for only £5!
Tony Chambers writes…
Aug 22nd, 2007
Last year Wallpaper* celebrated its 10th anniversary, and in time-honoured fashion we wanted our favourite figures, from the many disciplines covered by the magazine’s content, to share in our celebrations. It goes without saying that Zaha featured prominently, embodying as she does the same driving principles that we pride ourselves on. Zaha’s contribution to our 10th year celebrations was two-fold. She was one of the 10 artists we approached to design a limited edition cover, and she was also chosen by Karl Lagerfeld as his architectural hero in our gargantuan ‘Power Couples’ feature for Wallpaper* 092 last October. Read the rest of this entry »
late night opening this friday
Aug 21st, 2007
The Design Museum will be open until 10pm this Friday 24 August.
We call our late opening Design Overtime and it provides an opportunity to view Design Museum exhibitions until 10pm, but also encourages you to participate through workshops, activities and debates. Always fun, often serious, and sometimes spectacular, the theme for the August Design Overtime is a night of protest and song.
Do you have an opinion about design? Then come to the Design Museum to voice it. If you have no opinion then come and formulate one!
Join us from 6pm for Design Overtime. Entrance to exhibitions only £5! Activities are included and optional. Last admission 9.15pm.
Urban Nebula
Aug 17th, 2007
Urban Nebula is a sculptural installation that explores the potential of pre-cast concrete as a medium for repetitive and fluid form.
Urban Nebula is one half of Size + Matter, a project by Zaha Hadid and Amanda Levete for the London Design Festival. Read the rest of this entry »
Build it Again!
Aug 14th, 2007
The Grand Finale of our Build it Like Zaha workshops took place on 29 July.
The workshop was heaving! Book now for our August workshops Beach Life and Carnival Crazy on Sundays and Wednesdays.
Deyan Sudjic writes…
Aug 13th, 2007
Its great to see the museum so busy, and to see that architecture really does have the power to hook people who are not already converts. The Hadid wall of fly through images of the completed buildings has the audience transfixed by the scale of what she is building, and you can hear a constant stream of people go wow! when they first catch sight of the darkened first floor, and the chandelier. We have a constant stream of high profile visitors to show around.
James Purnell, the new culture minister came in for an hour during his first week in his new job, which certainly says a lot about the architectural literacy of the Brown government.
Simone Sagi writes…
Aug 7th, 2007
In 1977 a starchitect was born. 30 years may have passed since Zaha Hadid graduated from The Architectural Association, yet her presence remains an integral part of AA culture. In 2006 the AA Gallery hosted an exhibition celebrating the technical achievements of Hadid’s newly opened Phaeno Science Center. The private view was witness to the architectural equivalent of Beatlemania, crowds filling every inch of 36 Bedford Square hoping to catch a glimpse of the lady herself, when she lectured the following week a student fainted. Zaha it would seem has become as iconic as her buildings.
Having worked on the AA exhibition, I was keen to see what The Design Museum had produced. Staging architectural shows is always challenging. The built environment, immobile by nature, leaves the curator the task of transporting the building or at least the experience of the building to the gallery and its audience in some other way. Zaha Hadid Architects has a prolific catalogue of built works and projects in the pipeline; this exhibition has clearly cast an unenviable curatorial gauntlet.
Exhibition Highlights: Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre model
Aug 5th, 2007
This model of the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre is probably the most spectacular of all the models in the show. Architecturally the project - which was announced earlier this year - marks a new direction for Hadid, with the building’s forms being variously described as resembling an internal organ or a pair of mating lizards.
