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<\/p>\nRemembering Zaha Hadid, one of the world's most famous and impactful architects.<\/p>\n
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Hadid won the London Design Museum's Design of the Year award 2014 for this building in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. It is noted for its flowing, curved style that eschews sharp angles.<\/p>\n
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In 1981, a fire crippled the Vitra Design Campus, about a decade later Hadid was commissioned for the important role of ensuring that this never happened again and the Vitra Fire Station was built. Completed in 1993, this was Hadid\u2019s first built project and with this small building she made her mark on the world of architecture. With the soaring planes of deconstructivisim and the interplay of space, void and line, Zaha Hadid has created what will be regarded as a pivotal structure in the career of a great architect.<\/p>\n
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For decades, opera houses have been great representations of contemporary architectural style. From Paris to Sydney each one embodies unique elements of their age; the Guangzhou Opera House is no exception. Like great facets of crystaline rock, the opera house rises from the urban streets. The sharp, angular glass, steel and concrete hide the rippling interior. Like the hard wingcase of a beetle hides a tender body, so the exterior hides a soft inside. The glittering light of the ceiling and the acoustic design, make this site perfect for its purpose as a centre for opera.<\/p>\n
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Constructed for the Expo 2008, the 280-metre building crossing the Ebro, and acted as the main entrance to the Expo site.<\/p>\n
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The iceberg of architecture, Phaeno Science Centre is stunning and timeless. Few people can turn concrete, steel and glass into a \u2018hypnotic work of architecture\u2019, but Zaha Hadid has certainly accomplished this. The glacial windows and cool white concrete are captivating, but inside, a soaring latticework ceiling to the gallery and huge concrete columns give the space a monumental feeling shared by the great cathedrals of Europe. Perhaps this can be seen not as a church of religion, but a Cathedral of Science.<\/p>\n
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With 7,000 sq m of exhibition space, highlights inside this \u00a374 million building include L.S. Lowry's Cranes and Ships, Glasgow Docks. It was winner of the 2013 European Museum of the Year Award.<\/p>\n
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Built for the London Olympics, the facility includes two 50-metre swimming pools and a 25-metre diving pool. It is open to the public.<\/p>\n
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An 842-metre bridge built at a cost of $300 million. Curved design \"evokes the undulating dunes of the desert\".<\/p>\n
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MAXXI Natoinal Museum of the 21st Century Arts is a multifaceted space dedicated \u2018to experimentation and innovation in the arts and architecture.\u2019 In 2010, this building of overlapping tubular forms won the RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture. Since then the Guardian has declared it \u2018Hadid\u2019s finest work built to date\u2019. The curling tunnels, wide interior avenues and intersecting walk ways give the building an aesthetic rhythm rarely seen in architecture today.<\/p>\n
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Hadid's first US project, described by New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp as \"the most important American building to be completed since the Cold War.\"<\/p>\n
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The Central Building is the active nerve- centre or brain of the whole factory complex. All threads of the building\u2019s activities gather together and branch out again from here.This planning strategy applies to the cycles and trajectories of people - workers (arriving in the morning and returning for lunch) and visitors - as well as for the cycle and progress of the production line which traverses this central point - departing and returning again.<\/p>\n
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This powerful, curving structure is now a major landmark in Seoul, South Korea. An embodiment of Neo-Futurism, in many ways this is a sister to Glasgow\u2019s Riverside Museum. Both take on flowing forms with dynamic lines of light and a distinct Hadid style. In contrast to Riverside, there are no sharp angles in Dongdaemun Design Plaza \u2013 soft, smooth curves only. At night, the building is lit up like Hokusai\u2019s Great Wave, sparkling with pixelated light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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