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Featured architect: Zaha Hadid

January 15th, 2008

Zaha Hadid has won a competition to design the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. More »

January 6th, 2008

Architect Zaha Hadid was appointed last month to design a new building on the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. More »

November 29th, 2007

Zaha Hadid Architects have completed four stations on the Nordpark Cable Railway in Innsbruck, Austria. More »

November 14th, 2007

Here is a full set of model photos, renderings and drawings of El Juzgado de lo Civil (Civil Courts of Justice) in Madrid, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. More »

October 16th, 2007

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Zaha Hadid Architects have formally launched the masterplan for Zorrozaurre, a 60 hectare peninsula in the Nervión river in the former port area of Bilbao, Spain. More »

September 17th, 2007

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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. More »

August 29th, 2007

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Here is a set of 12 photos taken by architectural photographer Hélène Binet of Zaha Hadid’s Dune Formations installation at the Venice Art Biennale earlier this summer. More »

August 14th, 2007

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Art dealer Kenny Schachter’s Rove Gallery website presents several artworks by Zaha Hadid depicting her forthcoming architectural projects.

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The works, which represent projects including the Dancing Towers in Dubai (top image), Szervita Square in Budapest (above) and the as-yet unpublished Dubai Opera House (below), are in acrylic and stained-glass paint. More »

July 30th, 2007

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Rove, the website of art dealer Kenny Schachter, presents new images of the Z.Car concept vehicle he commissioned from architect Zaha Hadid. More »

July 20th, 2007

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We’ve updated our blog for the Design Museum’s Zaha Hadid exhibition with new content, including photos and movie footage of Metapolis II, a ballet featuring stage designs by Hadid that opens at the Lincoln Center in New York next week (above and below).

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There’s also a movie of Hadid’s speech at the private dinner following the opening of her exhibition at the Design Museum, and an acerbic essay by Times architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff.

July 13th, 2007

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We’ve just updated our Zaha Hadid blog with a time-lapse movie showing the construction of the Lilas installation at the Serpentine Gallery (see previous post). The blog also features loads more exclusive content including a video interview with Zaha and a film of the Zaha Hadid exhibition opening party at the Design Museum.

July 12th, 2007

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Time to wind up the Zaha conspiracy theorists again… here are some photos of Lilas, the architects’ installation at the Serpentine Gallery in London, which opens to the public today.

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The temporary structure was built to host the Serpentine’s annual summer party, which was held last night (above and below). More »

July 2nd, 2007

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We haven’t had anything by Zaha for at least two days so here is her new chandelier design for Swarovski. More »

June 25th, 2007

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The citizens of Basel, Switzerland, have voted by a clear majority against architect Zaha Hadid’s proposed Neues Stadt-Casino, meaning the auditorium will now not be built. More »

June 24th, 2007

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The Zaha Hadid – Architecture and Design exhibition opens at the Design Museum in London this Friday, and we’ve updated the exhibition blog with more material about the show and about Zaha Hadid Architects in general. More »