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Kunsthaus graz is an arts centre commissioned as the flagship of the Austrian city of Graz’s tenure as European city of culture for 2003, described by its architects as a “friendly alien”, it is perhaps the most extreme example of the “blob” style of architecture that was briefly fashionable at the turn of the millennium.

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The Nestlé Chocolate factory in Mexico City's Paseo Tollocan near Toluca has never been a site anyone went to see for its beauty. It is what is inside that has always interested chocolate-lovers.

A seminar room in London University Hospital takes an unusual spikey form!

OMA’s design for 111 First Street, a mixed-use tower for the waterfront in Jersey City, USA.
The 52-storey tower features three slabs containing live-work spaces for artists; a hotel and apartments; and more apartments. The three stacked volumes are set at 90 degrees to each other.

The directors of the National Malus (crab-apple) Collection invited Heatherwick Studio to develop the design of a structure called the Sitooterie for their site in Essex. Derived from the Scottish, a ’sitooterie’ is a small building in which to literally “sit oot”.

The structure is a cube punctured by over 5000 long thin windows that project from all its surfaces and lift it off the ground. The cube, which measures 2.4 x 2.4 metres, is precision-machined from 15mm anodised aluminium and the windows are 18mm square-section aluminium tubes glazed with transparent orange acrylic.

As the long thin windows all point at the exact centre of the cube, it only takes a single light source, located at this central point, to send light through every tube, causing the windows to glow orange. A small number of them also project into the cube to form seating.

The planned demolition of an abandoned tobacco warehouse, focus of a bitter dispute involving developers, Jersey City officials and artists who moved in, was likely to anger preservationists bent on saving the city’s industrial district. So city officials called on a big name yesterday, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, to unveil plans for a 52-story “vertical city” of condos and art studios that will dramatically change the city skyline as it replaces the warehouse.

The $400 million project at 111 First St. calls for a mix of apartments, living and work condominium studios for artists, a hotel, stores, parking and a gallery. It’s the first large-scale residential project in the United States for the Dutch-born architect’s firm, the Office of Metropolitan Architecture. Koolhaas, internationally known for designs of striking, practical buildings from Beijing to Seattle, said the new building would blend with the historic warehouse district surrounding it.

The two-acre project, which would replace the P. Lorillard Co. tobacco warehouse, involves a tower of three stacked buildings at First and Washington streets, the Dutch-born architect said. The lower level will include entertainment businesses, retail space, parking and condominium lofts and galleries for artists. A hotel and market-rate condo apartments will be built above those.

The tower takes its unusual shape by facing the middle section at a 90-degree angle from those above and below it. This unique configuration will allow for gardens, open terrace areas for residents, a wading pool and outdoor spaces.

The Cube will be a five-star condo hotel, a unique and innovative landmark tower that will occupy a prime location within Dubai Sports City, right in the midst of the future home for the most thrilling sports events taking place all year round. The Cube will consist of 27 stories of generously-sized 561 ultra-modern condo hotel units, with large balconies, unparalleled views and quality finished of the highest possible standards, including use of marble and bright natural stone.

The Trinity project is an important regeneration project for one of the most degraded fringe locations in the Eastern edge of the City of London. Despite being based on basic rectangular shapes, some sectors of the building’s envelopes are gently tilted in space to adjust the otherwise prismatic volumes to the geometrical specifications of the site, allowing the buildings to: Adjust to the irregular contours of the site; Reflect the sky daylight into the courtyard; Provide a partial cover of the public space; Provide a consistent coronation to the volumes.

Zaha Hadid’s design for the Dancing Towers confirms the role of Business Bay Development at the very forefront of Dubai’s rapidly changing future. The three towers rise above the creek and project themselves as an icon for the surrounding developments and for the gulf region.
The tower’s striking design creates a new presence that punctures the skyline with a powerful recognizable silhouette. The fluid character of the towers is generated through an intrinsically dynamic composition of volumes.
The towers are inter-twinned to share programmatic elements and rotate to maximize the views from the site towards the creek and neighbouring developments.
The design quality of the towers to act as a symbol and icon extends beyond their scale and location. These qualities are derived from the boldness of the architectural concept, from the choreographed’ movement that combines the three towers in one overall gesture and weaves’ with a series of public spaces through the podium, the bridges and the landscape beyond.

Sheik Saud and Rakeen of Ras Al-Khaimah has appointed the Norwegian architecture firm Snhetta the prestigious task of creating an iconic gateway building for the new capital city of Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. The approx. 300,000 m2 complex will contain a Congress Center, Exhibition Halls, Shopping Center, 5+ Star Hotel, 5 Star Hotel, and a 4 Star Hotel.
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Project for Istanbul, 2005/06: Compressed Complexity
Title: Vertical Shopping
Students: Mitterer Peter, Moroder Matthias
Studio Zaha M. Hadid, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

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Zaha Hadid's Expocentre exhibition halls and residential tower project in Russia
Closely located to the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), the largest investment and construction project in Russia, and Europe as a whole, the Expocenter Project offers the city a new exposition venue, hotel, and residential development. The main function of the horizontal space is to house the exposition and conference halls. The exposition halls cantilever to the sides at the upper levels, providing for a snow-free outdoor event space; and concealing the traffic at the southern part of the building. Such a venue with 26,340 sqm net exhibition space, which is located in the center of Moscow, will be in high demand for such high-class exhibitions and events.

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The new building on Szervita square will enhance Budapest by providing a new landmark. Both building and Square are an iconic attraction for the inner city of the contemporary Budapest.

"Our goal is to give the inner city an injection of contemporary elegance. A state of the art building with high quality work spaces would strengthen the multifunctional character and urban vitality of Budapest’s city centre. We perceive the need to balance divers’ requirements: Keeping the importance of the cultural heritage in mind the issue is to reconcile the functional, economic and historic preservation needs of the city centre. We feel that aesthetic and atmospheric rejuvenation is always an essential part of preservation - preserving the vitality of a historic city centre. "

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The 2004 Pritzker Prize Zaha Hadid wins the international architectural competition for museum of mediterranean nuragic and contemporary art!The project for the museum at Cagliari (Sardinia - Italy) dedicated to Nuragic and contemporary art aims to make known and underline the value of an ancient civilisation that is as fascinating as it is little known.The richness of the remains from the Nuragic age, their variety of form - that ranges from small bronzes to large stone statues uncovered at Monti Prama, near Oristano (West Sardinia) - the force and originality of artistic expression that characterises them, compared by some to the finest from the twentieth century avant-garde, are yet to be fully understood and appreciated.

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Add Valencia, Spain, to the list of cities now constructing an iconic, sculptural sports stadium. Work began last March on a new 75,000-seat home for the local soccer squad. Designed by Reid Fenwick Asociados, with Arup Sport, it will be one of the largest and most eco-sensitive stadiums in Europe—and, its designers hope, a point of civic pride when it opens in 2009. “Football is such an emotional sport, it’s almost like a religion,” says architect Mark Fenwick, referring to European soccer. “We had to pack all of that emotion and feeling into a building that would be theirs and only theirs.”

Capacity: 75.000 seats
Scheduled inauguration: 2010
Cost: 300 million €
Internal skin: Structure finished in wooden battons
External skin: Glass and titanium

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Zaha Hadid Architects announce the design of the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre:a new cultural institution for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on behalf of the Tourism Development and Investment Company of Abu Dhabi (TDIC).Zaha Hadid unveiled the design of the new Performing Arts Centre at a press conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE today.

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The Opus will appear to hover from the ground. Constructed of three separate towers the building will appear as a singlular unified whole, with a distinctive void. The interiors of which will be clad with a fully engineered curved class curtain wall to allow for eye-catching views into the void. Reflexive fritting patterns in the form of pixilated striations will be applied onto the glass facade to provide a degree of reflectivity and materiality to the cube while assisting in the reduction of solar grains inside the building.

"The Opus project combines art and performance with form and functionality, the strategic location, stunning exterior and the extensive range of facilities make the Opus project a strategic buy for potential investors who can expect considerable returns on their investment" said Mehdi Amjad, president and CEO of Omniyat Properties.

The floor plan for the development is 1.7million sq ft and has over 22 stories of commercial and retail office space. The design includes 17 levels of office space, four levels of retail, a top floor relaxation area and roof garden as well as a five-story basement. The new 22-storey cubed shaped mixed use building has been described as setting new standards in a global context and makes a unique contribution to the business bay section of Dubai. Construction on the project is due to start later this year with an expected completion date of 2010.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates