chicago ILLINOIS

zaha hadid architects: as part of the burnham plan centennial celebrations, the burnham pavilion by zaha HADID architects triggers the visitors’ curiosity and encourages them to consider the future of chicago. the design merges new formal concepts with the memory of burnham’s bold, historic urban planning. superimpositions of spatial structures with hidden traces of burnham’s plan are overlaid and inscribed within the structure to create unexpected results. “the burnham plan centennial is all about celebrating the bold plans and big dreams of daniel burnham’s visionary plan of chicago. it’s about reinvention and improvement on an urban scale and about welcoming the future with innovative ideas and technologies.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

peter MITTERER: the new bouwkunde delft replaces the burnt down faculty of architecture and is situated between the historic city center and the tu campus. the project aims at supplanting the traditional binary circulation logic of educational buildings by a more differentiated network logic. representation spaces and production spaces are accordingly split into linear strings and flexible nonlinear pockets. the intersections of layers and strings become hybrids of circulation elements and public functions, resulting in a maximization of possible social and creative interaction.

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london ENGLAND

kartal pendik masterplan installation - displayed at ‘zaha hadid’ exhibition

zahaHADID ARCHITECTS: a part of an exhibition of large scale sculptural installations by zaha hadid in new york, the masterplan installation takes hadid’s citywide plan for the asian side of istanbul, and morphs the gallery ceiling to create a gravity-defying grotto.

all photographs courtesy of bettina johae

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vienna AUSTRIA

diploma s07
zaha hadid studio

centro de la biodiversidad

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2009

taschen: born in baghdad, iraq and educated in london, where her practice is based, hadid has been shaking up the foundations of architecture for over 30 years and is now the subject of a massive taschen monograph. covering her complete works to date, and all of her exciting new work from dubai to guangzhou, this xl tome clearly demonstrates the progression of hadid s career including not only buildings but also furniture and interior designs with in-depth texts, spectacular photos, and her own drawings. also included is a special section with translucent vellum paper allowing multiple layers of designs to be viewed at once or separately.

rome ITALY

MAXXI - national museum of XXI century art completed.

jonathan GLANCEY: it took wright 15 years to realise the guggenheim; it has taken [zaha] HADID 10 to complete maxxi, as the museum is known (a play on the roman numerals for 21st century). there have been at least six changes of national government in italy since the project was first announced in 1998, from left to centre to right, and the future of many such public projects has often seemed doubtful. but now here it stands, in the residential and military flaminio district, almost exactly as HADID and her team first imagined it.

vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
philippOSTERMAIER: taipei810° is based on a competition brief for a performing arts centre in taipei which is demanding to embed 3 theatres in one building. from a typological research of theatres which centres around the relation of audience to stage a formula for 3 generic types emerged:180° opera + 270° thrust stage theatre + 360° theatre in the round = 810° theatre. these 3 theatre - types are created through the parametric malleability of delaminating shells , making them at the same time individually differentiated but also recognisable as parts of a whole.

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