PS: when I started to read comments, I noticed that some repeat “badpan, badpan…”. I got the impression there is bunch of people traumatized from the hospital and see this “badpan” through Zaha’s project!

Francois Beydoun

None of these comments are going to change the way architecture is done now a days, nor the way it will be done, the only way of making architecture evolve and change is by making more architecture, so if anyone has something to teach us about how buildings should be done why don’t they come up to the plate and show us how it’s done based on real life experience. Beginning by which there is not only one proper way of making architecture but many and this is one example of it, and if Zaha Hadid is that successful is because she is doing her thing right, don’t forget she is a pritzker price winner. And at least she is proposing her own thoughts on architecture, and not just because her works are not right angled doesn’t mean they´re not functional. Or would you find that a well distributed building built on pure solid crap would be better considered functional.

That is only a thought based on physical functionality but if you go beyond, as Klaus commented, there is magic in the building, it’s attractive, entertaining, and seductive, there is a further functionality. Off course it won’t satisfy everybody but that’s why every architect has its own signature, and somehow architecture can delight a wider variety of tastes. But to this specific case, Zaha Hadid’s forms have much more coherence to me rather than let’s say Le Corbusier forms since they resemble our own human forms, our physiognomy, because I can’t find a right angle in my body. As a general concept architecture, is meant for human beings and I believe this kind of shapes embrace us and make us fill part of the environment, which to me satisfies any purpose.

Let there be variety in architecture, Calatrava, Gehry, Hadid, Nouvel, Koohlaas etc instead of making everything so tight and right angled. I think that squared architecture is just a reflection of the human boring and squared life based on the same parameters as always, instead Zaha Hadid’s architecture reflects freedom in formal aspect with fluid lines and volumes that change and move along her designs, this reflects joyfulness, diversity and an open mind.

this is what you people on blogs like this call architecture.

when will you people ever learn?