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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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.