dezeen

did she copy that from sarah schneider?
just… don’t! you know, copyright…

i would go over this, zaha, really!

money can’t buy you love

amazing as always.
you can almost picture yourself in the penthouse room gazing at a meteor passing over the nearby forest of Tunguska with a glass of Martini in your hand, shaken, not stirred.

What a shame there’s no pool to jump into from the constructivist diving board! Intruiging to see a famous de-constructivist doing a quite literal take on Soviet revolutionary design.

Zaha’s publicist should get a raise. No contest in the most-publicised-architect-of-all-time stakes. That aside, this looks like a very interesting, very expensive house.

Looks like Mr. Spock residence

this is really ugly!
horrible!

Good god

If this looks good for anyone then they must be kiding:)

daaaeeeeemmmn!

So typically Zaha… Haven’t we seen this ten thousand times before??

Leave now, Zaha… it’s time enough….
Can’t find my words to say my boredom.
Let’s say you’re an architecture student and you just want to be fired
from the studio you’ re working in .

Looks like some russian mob boss wanted their own Dr. No hide-away. Complete with a surveillance tower and a pool full of sharks.

zaha’s most favorite : clone stamp tool

ugly, terrible

Spaceship has just landed!!

rather spending a cold night in that russian forest, then staying inside this “house”

by the way, valthewu>

This project was first published at least 2 years ago in GA Japan.
This project has been in the works for a while now…

Honestly, I’m really getting fed up with her curvy designs (the only curvy design she did that i personally like is the Abu Dhabi Opera House)… I hope she goes back to designing something like her Vitra Fire Station or the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art soon…

I like the rendering of this one though, and for some reason it has the Bergel Ski Jump accent to it (doi?!).

It’s nice that they included some renderings of the home post apocalypse

please stop posting zaha work…it is making your website look crappy.

Thanks Zaha for giving “us” this occasion to vent our frustration and hate, if not we’d implode.

what the hell is this?
Any work of a first degree student has more innovation and style!

Really agree with “tman”

money can’t buy you architecture…

Horrible.

The vanguard of an alien invasion fleet, surely?

Looks like a flight terminal. But you pays ur money, and you gets ur architecture

in my opinion, this is zaha’s worst project. you can dispute andlessly about aestetics of her blob flux buildings, but this one just doesn’t look good from any kind of viewpoint

ZAHA make the cacky world!

In spanish…….es suficiente no mas zaha……is not avant garde………..is ugly

wow, why all the hate?

Im with T-man. Please stop posting her inevitable decline.

I’m torn as to whether this looks more like an air traffic control tower or a Star Destroyer out of the original Star Wars. Abismal by either account!

I need to second tman.

Dezeen is my daily stop for architecture.
I love this website.
Posting any Zaha work will just ruin it.

this kind of design can work, but here it doesn’t.. at least to my opinion.. for example: the glass facade of the tower isn’t logical >>> due to the blobs in it they’ve created some spaces where one can put his chair (see rendering of tower interior) and which have a glass facade just next to another glass facade where one can put another chair (see same rendering) in the same space.. to me this is no benefit for the project: lots of facade build for the ‘nice look’ of the project, but why not put these spaces together to have a more comfortable, largere space??? this is just one example, but this project is full of it.. so: or you have to have lots of money to spend, or you have to have no insight of what can be a pleasent space to stay in (apart from the excellent view).. good for zaha’s bank account, but no good for one who will inhabit this space..
I know: building doesn’t only have to be about efficiency to make an interesting space, but here it’s unefficient in every sense of the word.. and it’s not even poetic or whatever.. architecture can (and has to) be so much more..

This is an awesome project.

What I find really annoying about this site, is the amount of venomous armchair critics / architecture students who routinely slam the projects posted, with a particularly vile disregard for Zaha Hadid’s enormous talent and long difficult struggle for recognition. She’s been practicing architecture for some 30 years, which is probably longer than most posters have been alive, and has only recently been getting the attention she so rightly deserves.

Post some constructive criticism or stop being so jealous and get a life.

Rely on what I’ve been seeing in Dezeen, Zaha Hadid Brand wouldn’t last long. And…do me a favor, Dezeen (or anyone). Follow up with all the Hadid’s gorgeous rendered projects, and monitor to see how many of them actually get built.

looks like the Fortress of Solitude fell over.

plan good - section not good

This looks like an inhabitable version of the Olympic ski jump in Innsbruck.

Hey guys…Normally reading your comments I can see where you are coming from, but on this design I think you just read Zaha and didn’t even give it a chance. Normally I’m not a fan because her work has overblown and pretentious concepts as a mask for something highly unusable but I really like this one from her. The living spaces look very practical and the design still makes a statement, you can recognise the Zaha style but it has something different about it. I think she’s got it right this time, well done to her

i dont see the rocket booster

tired. . . . looks like a star destroyer. someone said that above, but i had to repeat its because its true. dynamic plan, section reminds me of the stack of pancakes i had at norm’s for lunch today. first saw the thing a while ago in ga projects. . . . . doesn’t look like the images have progressed much since then. honestly, i’m sure it’ll be interesting, but with the budget it must have how could it not be? yes, mravka, zaha is an enormous talent, but it seems like shes spread herself thin over the last few years, and increasingly the work is looking intellectually lazy. this is just a pile of chubby, blobby roof shapes. where is the rigour of her earlier work?

hah. oh look, something by zaha…let’s all critizise everything she does!! you guys are idiots!

and joaquin, alot of the stuff does get built these days!!

ps. i love ‘the’ zaha!

It’s a bit old fashion house for Zaha…

Totally agree with mravka and J.

You guys see the word “Zaha” and the claws come out.

If Dezeen stopped posting work by Zaha you would all have to find another scapegoat.

If you’re SO much better than her, then get off this forum and deliver the goods! Stop being so negative and petty.

Zaha is an ICON and your jealous comments aren’t going to change that.

people that criticize zaha hadid are as jealous as you are blind

first reaction: ‘my god thats ugly’

second reaction while writing a comment about the first: “do you have huevos zaha?”

I respect designer with huevos.

still an obscurity though

oh…yes, zaha is an ICON - but often an icon of inefficient and”far-fetched ” architecture.
I think free forms should explain oneself - but where is the initial point of this draft?
Who wants to complete the facade structure - there are hundreds of slices….
The fact is zaha has also innovative projects like “Hydar alijev or chanel
pavillion or hungerburg shells - but this is a no go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok the only interesting things the woman did were actually her unbuilt work!.
god schumacher you have created a monster!!!!

note to impassioned zaha defenders: its okay to like pretty things. but it doesn’t mean the rest of us are jealous. pretty buildings can be boring, and this one is. is there a defense for this project that does not include speculation about the character flaws of others?

She’s a star and this is her Hollywood work, labeled “Zaha”, for her wealthy, architecture chalenged_consumer with a minimum of conceptual sweat.

P.S. Doesn’t this look very Mendelsohn to you guys?

And could someone point a benefit for sloping glass planes like these in architecture projects? How do i open the front door from the inside? Do i have to strech to reach the door knob? Does it have a sensor like a gass station?

And u Zaha fans. Please come with constructive arguments to destructive criticism. Don’t just ask others to be constructive.

SOMEBODY STOP HER!!! SHE IS DETERMINED TO DESTROY THIS PLANET WITH WITH HER UGLY BUILDINGS - LIKE WE DIDN’T HAVE ENOUGH!

i drew that tower when i was 7 years old…i was infatuated with star trek (1st generation) and drew a house with two of the necks of the spaceship (enterprise) that supported the disk like thing…my child like infatuation with spaceships and architecture has been authorized thirty years later by zaha! and it looks dumb. especially the mullions…yikes! i have no problem with the curvy forms, etc, but her drive to radicalize space just aint gonna happen with designs that question the predominant geometric conventions (no small feat, but been done many times) and not predominant architectural conventions in general. those are the result of cultural paradigms, and to not be critical of typical cultural and social conventions (what a nice kitchen island! a spacious dining room!) leaves her stylizing, not radicalizing. glad shes here though: even challenging the conventions of typical architectural geometries (and all geometries in general) is beneficial to the practice.

this will be a most commented post

agree with mravka… kiss

peace!

hahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!

bravo ! it’s really a spectacular idea . .
but, for a residential . . , I don’t think so . . .
architecture could create everything,
but don’t let architecture “rape” your humanity . . .

i love to check out the zaha post one to see what some of the upcoming projects from the office are but mostly to see how it gets everyone all bent out of shape.

i just wanted to note that if you made it to the bottom of the post before posting your flames.. you woul notice this bit of text:::

“Credits - current execution stage

Project architect: Helmut Kinzler

Project designer: Daniel Fiser

Project team:
Anat Stern
Daniel Santos
Thomas Sonder”

While yes this project was created by zaha in some fashion or another the design and development was worked on but the above mentioned. so i don’t understand how all of the projects can be critizied with this “sameness” when in fact they are all developed within different teams of people?

this was published in GA projects at least 1.5 years ago

shape is additive, u need to stop it and do something smart!

wow. what sublimated desires can do to the visible world..
don’t you see me, hear me, don’t you see me, hear me, don’t you see me, hear me..

Maybe because its in Russia, but this reminds me of the recent devastations in Georgia.

seems to say: this architecture is working without any human beings.
it doesn’t need them, stands for itself, is it’s own reference.

but what’s the fucking use then? wasn’t architecture once meant
to serve essential human needs?

but an ego like zaha’s, is definitely far beyound
human matters and scales.. reminds me of leni riefenstahl,
the obsession above everything.

Yucky.

a teacher of mine told me she walks with a loudspeaker
through the office and asks about the drawing on the walls “who drew this?????”. So u see, the design team desn’t have a big word in what gets done. This is to answer to jl.

“a teacher of mine….” not you andi.

nice vacation home!!but i would prefer more of her nature-reflecting curves or straight lines rather than this robotic - machine kind of shelter..cant just digest this futuristic stuff..we need to get into more of natural structures for a change.
!!

The omnipresent Zaha Hadid never fails to amaze some of us mear mortals. whether you love her or loath her she will no doubt be one of the most influential design figures of the 21st century. Her aproach to structural design analysis and research and development into new and improved ways of not only manufacturing but applications of new products is in itself outstanding.

I actually really like it, with the exeption of the gun tower. The free form shapes in the interior, complimented by the awsome furnature is very classy. So what its futuristic, thats what architecture should be about anyone. Zaha is leading the world into the future.
Stop bagging her out, if you actually bothered to look at the design all you so called architecture students or know it alls, you see how it utalises every aspect, making it functional to.

oh by the way i love the seamless glass.

oh and the space ship look..

jesus! looks like the Sphinx. zahahaha!

Le Roi c’est mort ,viva le Roi.
Having been an outcast for many years, now she has reached fame.
Lets look for another “hero”.

all you people stop hating on zaha!!!

zaha is god of form and presentation.

Hi everybody, I’d like to know if someone here is able to tell me who is the owner of this “sculptural” house… I already tried to find some information on ” capital hill residence” without any result … thanks for helping me

Its absolutely wonderful - and its being built in Москва. I cant wait till its finished.

looks more like a ski jump from my part og the world