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TRULY ZAHA!!. I would love to know the design process, method & softwares , used by zaha in architecture.

This starts to make me sick now.
Towers really need a better termination at the top. They are fluid vertically, but top is just too rigid. Same with the landscape, too broken, it just not tie together with the undulating vertical forms. Needs more work, a LOT more!

OH NO! MORE ZAHA! AGAIN!?

Ok… kiding!

I’m not a Zaha fan. I’m more like a Zaha un-fan. Yet, I kinda like the looks of those towers!

Hey Zaha… enough is enough no?

sincerely, too inexpressive.
just twisted, non workwed shapes. doesn´t work for me.
seems like they where just produced in a rush.

whats the difference between hadid and calatrava?
every day i love you less and less

Corbu would love them! However I much prefer Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid
in Beijing as representative of some fresh thinking. Still, Zahaha’s towers are pretty cool.

Reminds me of FOA’s Bundle Tower competition entry for the WTC site.

The production of good images does not entail good architecture. I can accept the towers as they are but the landscaping is abysmal.

Whats the difference between hadid and calatrava? Calatrava is an engineer who produces good architecture. Hadid is an artist who produces good images.

dont really see the similarity with any calatrava project. But these towers look surprisingly similar to Frank Gehry’s NY Times building proposal a few years ago, i guess there’s only so much one can do with developer formula highrises.

Is it just me, or is Zaha quickly becoming a caricature of herself? The landscape looks like what would happen of someone attempted to design a Zaha theme park.

I hate to continue the ever-present negativity on here, so I will say that she will be regarded as a contemporary master for better or worse…I just think her current work would benefit from some further exploration of functional space. A simple glance at the dismal failures that were the (eerily similar) high rise, cluster type housing projects of the 50s-70s would start to suggest the potentially sad future of such a pricey, if well-intentioned undertaking.

These towers look better than 99% of the residential buildings in Singapore, but…

I don’t like how all the residential buildings in Singapore are so spaced out. Forget about walking anywhere because it will take you forever. Oh, and nobody ever uses the grass spaces between buildings, yet you need to hire landscapers to take care of all those green spaces that nobody ever uses.

I prefer to see towers with podiums that connect to each other with retail stores on the ground floor.

Who will love being there, among them? I’m sure it will be alright to be inside them, but looking at them makes me feel a little dizzy. Originality is not the same as quality.

Calatrava’s work is usually glorious; Hadid’s usually only cool.

LOL - great answer I-Acevedo.

what a piece of shit… one thing i have to give credit to them… they are consistent… shit but consistent!

I guess there is no return from here….Zaha’s studio started the irreversible, magnificent transformation towards a pure commercial office. This is just a plain and honest commercial job. Tees kind of images and architecture smell of factory and tastes of serial production. Gone are the days where Zaha’s studio was a revolutionary place, daring to say something unique and different from anyone else. What is the need to go from a 30 odd something studio to 300 or whatever is?….pure commercial expansionist crap. I have much more respect for studios like Future Systems (Jan Kaplicky) or FOA who never gave up and sold their souls to produce commercial crap like this. If I was Foster (yuck!) I would pat Zaha’s back, shake her hand and say “Welcome to club, Zaha, you have made it…”. She really did

You’re right Hugo. It’s so FOA, maybe that’s why it’s not as bad as other Zaha’s.

ostermeier-architecture…

la ville radieuse!

I don’t quite understand the contexuality of these towers. Sadly almost all high rise project don’t focus on contexuality. The forms of the towers are interesting, not overstated. But the irregular jagged layout of the landscaping again doesn’t speak to the requirements of simplified order daily living. If this was a public plaza or an amusemnt park, I get it but for your daily resident, irregualr shapes become stressful real quick. There still is some truth to form following function that needs to be addressed

boring….boring… the same ….the same

NO! NO! NO!

why are these that appealing? seriously, if the ‘zaha’ name/brand weren’t attached to them and it was, instead, ‘joe blow’, would it have even been posted at all?

to me, it’s a bad parody of zaha, which is pretty sad coming from her own office. i love some of her work, but as she’s been throwing out so much of it in recent times, the quality seems disturbingly hit or miss. this, for me, is a clear miss…

haha zadid…i miss your vitra.

zahahahahahaha…..

I actually want to see the interiors.. Looks quite unconvincing frm the exterior point of view. And the landscaping looks like someone threw a paint bucket from the top floor, too abstract and complex. I have to agree with DH, they need more studies. Btw the apartment buildings looks like office buildings to me.

doesn’t really look that nice. me thinks zaha should stick to low rise buildings spanning the horizontal instead of vertical. leave the high-rises to architects pushing the high-tech.

I’m with you Zenza!
I’m a BIG UN-FAN of Zaha. Big time!
At least Calatrava it’s for real!
Will be a very expensive project.
Clients are ready to pay that kind of money?
…I feel dizzy already.

may be Melissa rubber shoes and this 7 buildings in Singapore are too much …As Ubik Starck, she leaves in a plane…

Calatrava is an engineer who produces good formal gestures with awful architectural details and he is ultra-kitsch. Most of his building are failures and derelicted.
Zaha Hadid’s office is one of the biggest in the world with OMA, SOM, KPF, Foster’s…The difference is that it’s full of young people from everywhere just coming out from the AA.
The real miracle is their architecture’s integrity with her past work and ideas, given that they actually build projects.
You should be optimistic to know that a big company can produce this kind of architecture instead of playing it safe and produce the usual post-modern/modern corporate/generic (pink-tiled-green-mirrored-glazed) architecture.

You can do this for tower shape, but what about this floorplans…?

I agree with DB- and will add that if you cannot use paper and pen before cad work then something is lost in the process. Compare Ferrari car design now to when guys actually hand produced full size models in clay

has anyone considered a tropical climate in the bloody design?
think green zaha.
shade the facade

These Singapore developers deserve what they get. Buying a brand name that is declining really fast. Instead they could have gone for the next generation of more interesting architects. Well, Capital Land, you’ll be the global laughing stock. Well done.

this is simply a bad idea. her work is best limited to 2,000 m2 pavillions. formally and urbanisitically her designs function like a broach on a sweater- we shouldn’t ask her to design the sweater however.

yikes….Zaha?? really?

Reding comments on zaha’s work are actually quite entertaining. Probably the most opposite comments are here. Anyway, most people incline toward a NO. I must say NO too, not to follow the crowd, but to me most of her work, including this one, is a NO.

I’m a big fan of Zaha but this time… White Paper you are right!

i think zaha should move on from the whole wavy-ness

calatrava soars, that is the difference

I wonder how come someone who created such powerfull paintings, that reversed architecture in the late 80’s, can live with such a cheap images/projects… what happens to a person that you can give up something you really believe in, that moves boundaries, for $$$?? perhaps I’m still too young and too ambitious to understand, but too me this is cheaper than cheap.. zaha for sale.. anyone?

better than the junk my office is building in Singapore. Christmas bonuses for all the Juniors.

It’s amazing how negative everyone is about this. Can people please try and look at the bigger picture instead of immediately slagging it off?

It is NOT simply about judging a rendering - it is what it can or does signify for a specific culture.

Bear in mind the social implications of this project in a place like Singapore. I’m guessing most of you have never even been there so you could not possibly understand the state of our highrises (not good, aesthetically UNpleasing,boring,aged…)

Singapore is a very young country (43 years old) and has a very very weak arts/architecture scene. No one has ever dared to do building’s such as this until now because of wanting to stick to the convetional.

ASIA IS all about brands and names. It is inevitable that a developer such as capitaland would want to have a renowned architect to do such a huge project. There is no doubt that Zaha’s name gives the project added value and that the brand conscious yuppies of Singapore will snap up these units like hotcakes.

Being a Singaporean myself,having a project like this in Singapore signifies a step the right direction. It is about being more open minded and looking at the bigger picture.

They may not get it right the first time but it has to be done.

teabag: soo, just let a named architect do a bad design and leave it there or maybe demolish it in 5 years? If you can’t get it right, don’t do it.

not as good as the projects she designed before

Zaha…….Never quite there, yet more corporate by the minute…

From an urban planning perspective, this is no different than Corbusier’s “asterisks in the park” concept that has proven a complete failure.
At least for the poor in housing projects in places like greater New York.
Of course, this is clearly for the rich, so I guess they’ll have drivers, grocery delivery, dry cleaning service, etc etc etc.

i believe the next comin Pritzker Prize winner will be calatrava!
qualification of unesco heritage site will be pullbacked if the properties is not maintained/managed well!so how about if Pritzker Prize will be pullbacked???????

teabag - i have to correct you, as a foreign architect who has worked in singapore for several years, this is not a case of helping a young country put itself onto the map, and you do a dis-service to the immense design talent already in singapore. this is simply a case of a misguided ignorant developer jumping onto a bandwagon trying to differentiate their product and compete with keppel land who have got libeskind to do some insane towers at keppel bay. trust me singapore already has enough talent on the island to produce something far superior to this, but as usual are never given the chance to flex their design muscle - because clients are fixated on foreign names and brands. they never stop to think that perhaps singapore architects are quite capable of doing something fresh and exciting for themselves. if you look at the new 50 storey hdb tower by arc-studio, this local architect beat foster oma etc..only when asian clients lose their fixation with foreign architects and start to nurture their own talent will be see less of this ‘wallpaper’ syndrome with foreign architects churning out second rate designs for a climate and market they clearly dont understand. singapore deserves much better than this.

At least Zaha Hadid did won a Pritzker Prize. Calatrava sucks big time.

pretty poor show i think,
the way the towers terminate really doesn’t work,
and wavywavywavy building meeting the ground
in the way these do just makes them appear like vases.
pretty sure if zaha’s office designed vases they’d look like this.
as for wavywavy facades… wow big deal, the floor plates
inside don’t change at all, the way people use the building hasn’t
changed at all, in fact what is the difference between this and
a standard condo development?
the name and wavywavy facade