Here are photos of Urban Nebula, a sculptural installation by Zaha Hadid on the South Bank in London, created as part of the London Design Festival.
The piece was completed today.
More about this project in our earlier story.
Photos are by Luke Hayes.
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs is making a series of daily online films about the London Design Festival for Swarovski Crystal Palace and Urban Nebula will feature later this week.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
This is fantastic. Any more pics of the fabrication process>?
September 17th, 2007 at 7:17 pmNot a Zaha comment… but, I dig the new Dezeen look!
You kept it simple! Ride on
September 17th, 2007 at 10:38 pmit looks something different from the pictures that had made by computer
September 18th, 2007 at 8:24 amAwesomeness!
I’m not the biggest Zaha fan, but this is great. Dynamic and intricate
September 18th, 2007 at 12:41 pmGreat ! just Great !
September 18th, 2007 at 3:05 pmMrs. Zaha,
Stick to creating sculptures, not buildings.
September 18th, 2007 at 4:28 pmSorry to be the spoiler, but didn´t like it at all. The material is heavy, the pieces are heavy themselves… it lacks the usual Zaha elegance, its something I´d expect from a more mass-oriented designer, not a movement oriented one as Zaha.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:48 amWell, she´s been changing a lot in these recent years, but even then, heavy on heavy turned out to be… heavy.
The one thing I like is its shine. The polished surface looks good on a black blackish stone-like material, but other than that, I´d be critic even about the hexagon-shaped structural module repeating and repeating…
Her recent stuff was definetly more refined and better designed - in the formal sense - than this one.
Anyways, just tu put some dark side into this “greaaaaaaaaat” comments hehehehhe
I would love to see construction / manufacturing pictures for this piece. I know dezeen loaded a couple a while back but this is a case of more would be nice.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:56 pmPS: The photography is too dark.
I helped build it, i think it looks pretty
September 21st, 2007 at 8:11 pm@ DrGoat: … ‘ofcourse’ you do! …
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:37 pm