elk grove CALIFORNIA

Following the international competition held in 2006, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) were chosen to create initial conceptual proposals for the Civic Centre of the City of Elk Grove, California, a fast-growing suburb of Sacramento. The main objective of the Elk Grove Civic Centre Design Study was to explore a wealth of possible ideas for programmatic distribution; incorporating the city’s requirement for initial ‘visioning’ proposals that identify all the project components while keeping the opportunities for flexibility. The two hubs of the proposal, ‘urban’ (north) and ‘sports’ (south), are to be connected with a development housing all the civic elements of the programme – allowing the flexibility for all the commercial elements to be developed separately. This strategy also allows for a more economic sharing of services, maintenance and running costs of the civic programme.

london ENGLAND

press release: Zaha Hadid and Lemghari Essakl, Managing Director of l’Agence pour l’Aménagement de la Vallée du Bouregreg (The Bouregreg Valley Development Agency) signed an agreement for the architectural design of the Rabat Grand Theatre at a ceremony held in Rabat on November 5. During the event, Mr. Essakl also signed the project financing agreement with Mr. Salaheddine Mezouar, Moroccan Minister of Economy & Finance, Mr. Taieb Cherkaoui, Minister of the Interior, and Mr. Abdelouahed Kabbaj, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Hassan II Fund for Economic & Social Development.

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london UK

zaha HADID architects: Zaha Hadid Architects’ first completed project in England, the Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton, south London for ARK Schools presents itself as an open, transparent and welcoming addition to the community’s local urban regeneration process. ARK Schools was founded in 2004 to work with the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and local authorities to create new schools offering exceptional opportunities to local children in inner cities through their academies programme, with the aim of helping to close the achievement gap between children from disadvantaged and more affluent backgrounds.

photo by luke HAYES

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new york NEW YORK

100 artists, architects and designers have generously donated drawings, models and works of art to be auctioned off to support Modern Views: A Project to Benefit Farnsworth House and the Glass House. Participants include greg LYNN, david ADJAYE, asymptote, zaha HADID, thom MAYNE, eric owen MOSS, wolf PRIX, and james WELLING.

rome ITALY

MAXXI OPENS: 30 MAY 2010

MAXXI_National Museum of XXI century Arts is a
Foundation established by the Ministry of National Heritage
and Culture.
It is the first national museum dedicated to contemporary
creativity thought as a great campus dedicated
to culture, a laboratory of experiment, study and research.
Thus, in the adventure of an institution so projected towards the future,
it was decided to carry out a grand public work with the innovative
and spectacular architectural forms of the architect Zaha Hadid.

london UK

Marjan Colletti, Nigel Coates, Ziah Fogel, Zaha Hadid, Andrew Jones, Lebbeus Woods, coordinated by Ricardo de Ostos and Tobias Klein
Rendering Speculations Symposium
Date: 07.05.2010

Rendering Speculations, coordinated by Ricardo de Ostos (AA Inter 3/NaJa-DeOstos) and Tobias Klein (AA First Year/Horhizon), is an AA event in which seven invited guests, from a variety of different fields including architecture, conceptual art, video gaming and interface design, will discuss the topic of speculative visualisation and virtual design. Highlighting a variety of disciplines and approaches, the event seeks to locate architecture as a magnifying lens through which digital visions and speculations are imagined.

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east lansing MICHIGAN

michigan state university will break ground on the iconic eli and edythe broad art museum at 10 a.m. tuesday, march 16, at the museum site just west of the collingwood entrance on the msu campus. the ceremony will be followed by a program at 11 a.m. in the pasant theatre of the wharton center.

both events are open to the public. the broads, who have donated $28 million for the project, and zaha HADID, the award-winning architect who designed the building, are expected to attend.

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muharraq BAHRAIN

the first exhibition in the gulf by renowned architect zaha hadid
shaikh ebrahim bin mohammed al khalifa center for culture and research, bahrain 15 march – 30 april 2010

for her inaugural exhibition in the gulf, zaha hadid – fluidity & design, the pritzker prize winning architect presents her practice’s continued exploration and research towards a new architectural language of fluidity that encompasses all scales of design – a built manifesto informed by originality and innovation. evolving from the demands of greater complexity and variety in contemporary society, this new language is driven by the latest advances in computational design processes and state­of-the-art fabrication technologies.

image credit: luke hayes

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vienna AUSTRIA

studio hadid 3(x+y)=world ws09/10
studio instructor: patrick schumacher

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
bin LU, vadimir IVANOV, robert LOFFLER: the whole year task is designing from small fashion and industry designs (shoes + bag, arm-chair + lap-top, car + garage, beach villa + boat) to bigger scales building projects (stadium + podium). total fluidity on all scales for all programmes. the final products for this semester integrate all first 3 double-designs into a single complex. our abstract idea behind is the interaction between user and object and object to object.

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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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