Zaha Hadid: The Prominent Design Figure With Excellent Projects – Today, in this LUXXU Blog‘s article, we present the work of Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born architect who was the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize. The London Aquatics Centre (used in the 2012 Summer Olympics), the Vitra Fire Station in WeilamRhein, Germany, China’s Guangzhou Opera House, the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, and the Riverside Museum in Glasgow were all designed by her.

Getting To Know Zaha Hadid’s Wonderful Works

Hadid was born in Baghdad and attended the American University of Beirut before going to London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture. She worked for her former teachers, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in the Netherlands, where she became a partner in 1977. Zaha Hadid Architects, her own firm in London, was founded in 1979. Hadid was named a Dame in 2012 and is now known for structures from New York to Azerbaijan; she also had a dozen projects in the works at the time. Her furniture designs are highly sought after, and she recently ventured into jewelry by launching a collection with Georg Jensen at Baselworld.

Many of Hadid’s projects are funded by “dictator states,” and her architectural language has been described as “famously opulent.” “Not so dissimilar from the vast cultural palaces long cherished of Soviet and kindred governments,” Rowan Moore said of Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center. “An empty vessel that draws in whatever philosophy might be in proximity to it,” architect Sean Griffiths said of Hadid’s work. The foreclosure of Zaha Hadid’s building of the MAXXI in Rome towards the public and urban life, according to art historian Maike Aden, weakens even the most brilliant plans to open the museum.

Zaha Hadid also worked on a number of high-profile interior design projects, including the Mind Zone at London’s Millennium Dome, as well as creating fluid furniture installations in the Georgian surroundings of Home House private members club in Marylebone and the Z.CAR hydrogen-powered three-wheeled automobile. In 2009, she collaborated with Lacoste to design a new, high-fashion, and sophisticated boot. She also collaborated with Triflow Concepts, a brassware company, to create two new designs in her characteristic parametric architectural style in the same year.

Zaha Hadid Never Fails To Amaze Us

The Iraqi government commissioned Zaha Hadid to design a new building for the Central Bank of Iraq in 2010. At a ceremony in London on February 2, 2012, an agreement to complete the design stages of the new CBI building was signed. This will be her first project in Iraq, where she was born. Other projects include Pierres Vives, a new departmental records building for the French department Hérault in Montpellier (which will house three institutions: the archive, the library, and the sports department).

In 2008, Hadid’s design for the Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum was chosen the best. She designed the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Innovation Tower, which is set to be completed in 2013, as well as the Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion, which debuted in Hong Kong in 2008.

The Roatán Próspera Residences is a residential project that ZHA worked on alongside engineering firms AKT II and Hilson Moran to make it more ecologically friendly. Residents will have access to a computerized parametric platform designed by Zaha Hadid Architects’ Computational and Design Group, which will allow for customization, particularly in terms of housing module size, layout, and furniture designs.

The Chinese Cultural Centre project is a 115,000-square-meter cultural complex near Meixi Lake in Changsha, Hunan province’s capital. Zaha Hadid Architects designed three sinuous, petal-shaped buildings to house a theatre, a modern art museum, and a smaller multi-purpose venue.

The Grand Theatre is the complex’s showpiece, and it is the city’s largest performance space, with seating for up to 1,800 people. Zaha Hadid’s vision establishes Changsha as one of the country’s most important cultural and media centers.