Zaha Hadid Architects are having a busy day: the second project the office has announced today is Lilium Tower, a 250m tower for Warsaw in Poland.
The project follows the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, which was unveiled a few hours ago.
Here’s a bit of text:
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The Lilium Tower, the winning design for a proposed addition to the Warsaw skyline has been announced by the client. The design is a light, transparent structure with a strong sense of identity and character.
Rising to a height of 250 meters, the tower’s slender form complements the Palace of Culture and other towers nearby, creating its own distinctive profile within an emerging cluster of tall buildings. The tower has a gross area of 130 000m2 consisting of luxury residential apartments and an apartment hotel.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
January 15th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
it must be a busy day for zaha hadids office… but i wonder if zaha is hearing sounds in the back of her head saying:
… i am corporate…corporate… but Chic corporate
January 15th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
One of my faves about Zaha projects.
January 15th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Why do we look at another Zaha creation where it’s alle the same…
January 16th, 2008 at 12:32 am
el diseño se observa muy fragil… y le falta un poco d concepto…
en mi opinion ubiese kedad un nucleo d cristal… para. poder optimizar .. eljuego d sombras en los boladizos y realzar los marcos ke se observannnn….
yo puedo mejorar tu diseño
January 16th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Not only is it all the same, but that’s totally pedestrian-unfriendly. Poor design.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Zaha is a brand
and is somtimes convincing
but not this time
January 16th, 2008 at 1:12 am
It looks more like a government architect doing a Zaha as opposed to a real Zaha.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Hasn’t Warsaw suffered enough?
January 16th, 2008 at 10:11 am
wtf is that plaza
January 16th, 2008 at 10:40 am
future systems did this scheme better 12 years ago. Theirs was zero carbon and had pink bits in it.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:26 am
it is already called the TAMPON in Warsaw
January 16th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
err….i think you guys are being a little too judgmental before looking at itfully.. don’t you think..? (*Antiheroes…. ?) Plus, it didn’t even provide plans and sections of how it works…
anyways… i think its great to see it in a different kind of light.. this is a little subtle part of Zaha.. reminds me of the Mies ideology with Zaha imagery ..
Call it what ever brand or anything … I think she is the epitome of future architecture … pushing technology boundaries with fantastic architecture…
Now that some people are anti-zaha.. it gives me all the reason to like he work even more.. hahaha (*jokingly.. i’m sure.. )
January 16th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
i think we can add this monument to the Mies van der rohe glass skyscraper in Berlin and to the H&M library in Cottbuss.
refer to http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=394
January 16th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Hadidn´t like this too…!!!
She is following Calatrava steps: boring, boring, boring…
January 16th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
not even one single tree?
January 16th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
cool! fantastic! terrific! stunning! wonderful! go on like this zazzà. Maybe we’ll get rid of you in a few years…
January 16th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
All these curvy buildings… come on! Do we really want to see cities with stuff like this? In reality, in the world we actually live (and not in the 3dmax or rhino 3d view), this is HARD and crazy expensive to build. There is no need whatsoever to do stuff like this. There’s actually way much simpler ways to make soooooo much more. All these CG generated shapes are just the construct of egotistical architects, not committed to the profession in a truly social way and ignorant of the necessities of the city.
(I’d love to be in one of the meetings where the guys at Zaha talk to the client about budget and how economical this will be given that all 10,000 glass panels are different from each other…)
January 16th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I think it’s a quite elegant addition to the Warsaw skyline.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I’m more distressed at the surrounding hi-rises that planners decided not to put windows in, looks like Poland’s over aspiring to western traditions - have they introduced window-tax?
January 16th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Why in Warsaw…this architecture hasn’t any context, it’s only a design product …making money!
In Warsaw…may be better the Sovietic “Cultural and educational building”!
January 16th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
exactly, Curvy. she immediately dates herself too. can’t wait to see what this looks like in 15 years.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
The Lillets Tower
Love it. It’s both vaginal and phallic at the same time. Talk about layers of meaning!
January 16th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Vaginal and phalic! Jejejejje! I had to admit this made me laugh.
As if you had to do a US$120,000,000 metaphor. Whooops!
January 17th, 2008 at 2:50 am
Is this the next HQ for power puff girls?
January 17th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Apart from the fact that the whole thing
looks a bit familiar. Did anyone of you
see the competition entry of the
Busan World Business Centre by UN Studio
in 2006?
January 17th, 2008 at 11:25 am
This is again blue tower in Warsaw… all of high buildings looks like shower. Not bad design but borring..
January 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
can somebody push the “STOP” button?
January 17th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
those renderings give me a hard on.
/jealous
January 17th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Wow another copy of a “Future Systems” design very original . . . .NOT !!
wanna see ?
surf to: http://www.future-systems.com
and look at
“226 ZED LONDON 1995″
January 17th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
She must have a huge penis!
January 18th, 2008 at 12:26 am
i don’t know what every one is complaining about… warsaw looks very clean.
January 18th, 2008 at 9:24 am
this vicissitude in warsaw`s sky line could be Attractive.
January 19th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Extremely elegant!!!
January 21st, 2008 at 4:23 am
it looks like butterfly on plan,perhaps flowers!…..cactus in 3d..smooth organic and diffrent from the context..outstanding and bold but yet highly individualistic…..she’s only represent a normal human being..
February 5th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
sexy!!!!!!!!!!
March 12th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
London’s got a gherkin, Warsaw will gain a tampon
May 14th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Come on, It’s ‘Lilium Tower’ because it sits in underground silo for most of the year? Appears only for Polish State Holidays, Women’s Day and Mother’s Day. Tell me it is true Zaha!
August 18th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
looks much better than surrounding buildings in the center. The Lilium Tower is supposed to be competition for sharp, soc-realistic and stalinist Palace of Culture.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
EXTRA! SUPER! YEAH! WARSAW
October 27th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
It seems it is very much en vouge to critisise Zaha these days… The building is simple & elegant and it is difficult to see how it managed to become a target of such violent critisism and mockery.
Dear Raffaella Ce: Rarely are the skyscrapers contextual. Zaha’s office has an anti-contextual label but - for goodness sake! - try to put some thinking and objective judgement into your review. Important thing to keep in mind is that commissions of this kind are meant to be generators of the “new” in their surroundings. Should London be ashamed of its Gherkin or Lloyd’s (to name a few)?
At this point I really less care about the design itself than this irritating and thoughtless slagging off. What we witness here is self-proclaimed experts performing publicly a verbal masturbation.
Guys, I’m sure you are more grown up than this.