Zaha Hadid Architects just finished the design of Changsha Meixihu International Culture & Arts Center, China. It’s an ambitious project to build Grand Theater which will become the largest venue in the city with capacity of 1800 seats. This building complex will host world-standard performance therefore it is completed with VIP hospitality as well such as: bars, restaurants, lobbies, cloakrooms, including supplementary area such as rehearsal rooms, backstage logistics, make-up rooms, and wardrobe.
As usual, you can plainly see the characteristic of Zaha Hadid through extreme curves and flows, it radiates beautifully through 3 main structures which are linked by pedestrian landscapes. Beautiful outward views and balconies at its exteriors aim to engage this site’s unique location and surrounding views into some of its gallery spaces. There’s an external plaza faces Meixi Lake Road which can be used for exhibitions, outdoor sculptures, or any other events.
Designer : Zaha Hadid Architects
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Zaha Hadid National Stadium design has won the first prize of Japan New National Stadium International design competition. At first, Tokyo National Stadium was built in 1964 for the purpose of hosting Tokyo Olympics as well as marking the progress of the nation of Japan post-war. Today, this design competition was held with aim to rebuild this symbol into new chamber for sports. This new stadium features more than just a large sports facility, it’s been designed to meet highest design specifications as well as functional requirements. It’s an iconic symbol that connects people moving through the site from different directions and points of access.
One thing for sure, this design meets the 3 challenges: modern international sporting venue that can accommodate up to 80,000 spectators, the complexity of the building should allow spectators to enjoy different sporting events in an exciting atmosphere, and the last challenge where this stadium should be ready for main venue 2019 Rugby World Cup.
Designer : Zaha Hadid Architects
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Marinekart Kart 338 is an innovative portable boat that weights only 55kg or around 120 pounds. Utilizing the most advanced technology, it’s pretty amazing this small sized boat features a very low weight, you can easily load it on roof-bars equipped vehicles or campers. It is developed using high resistance materials and manufactured using sandwich layers vacuum technology which is traditionally used for sailboat hulls for great strength and rigidity as well as ultra light weight. So, yes, the amazing 120-pounds already include the boat structure, steering, seatings, waterproof bag, patented remote control system of the engine as well as other crucial equipment for navigation and boat transport.
It’s a multipurpose boat that you can use for recreation, fishing, or having fun with the family. You can use Marinekart Kart 338 as water kart on a lake or sea, racing with your friends or families. Thank you to its 6 HP (4,41 KW) outboard engine, this boat can reach the speed of 35 km/h or 20mph. The high efficiency of this boat design provides low friction which improves fuel economy.
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Kenny Schacter has commissioned Zaha Hadid to design a limited edition speedboat for his personal use, Z-Boat. This is the man who has everything you’ve been dreaming of, checkout his jaw dropping collection, from plush alligator chair by Campana Brothers to 1983 Alfa Romeo and several Porsche models in his garage. At first sight, you might not recognize this boat as the work of Zaha Hadid, because there’s no fluid shape in shiny metallic finish just like her internationally known style, Hadid preferred to boast asymmetrical and fragmented design to provide more seating space for the passengers.
Z-Boat features 8-meter long body and all black finish. It’s being built by Shoreteam, a French manufacturer and there’s going to be only 12 of them to go on sale in 2013. If you are interested to buy this sexy and cool boat, for €375,000, it can be yours.
Designer : Zaha Hadid for Kenny Schacter via [ArtInfo]
Zaha Hadid Architects, keeping their usual fluid movement language intact, has designed Form in Motion, a groundbreaking exhibition center for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The design incorporates wavy geometries that give it a great touch of urbanism, while displays a swelling three dimensional environment both from inside and out. The design flow has been perfectly carried out by active combination of architecture, landscape and geology, and the point where these elements intersect by giving it a wave like movements with constantly shifting perspectives.
Designer : Zaha Hadid Architects
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The main inspiration of the innovative design of Roca London Gallery, UK has been derived from the power of water as a transforming element to carve a sequence of dynamics. This 1100 square meter gallery is featured with stunning architectural design that can offer an extraordinary futuristic feel to the visitors. It was designed not to be just a display center; also, this gallery will be a place where people can arrange exhibitions, seminars, meetings, presentations, debates and many more. The façade is the starting point of the water theme design that looks like a set of waves moving across the exterior.
Designer : Zaha Hadid Architects
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Arena Venom Opera House looks like coming from final fantasy games. In order to set apart from traditional opera house, this architect has designed futuristic, unusual, and complex structure that forms an opera house and concert hall in the middle of Stadtpark in Vienna.
Designer : Hend Almatrouk
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This Busan Opera House design proposal features a synthetic mountain architecture that stands in contrast to the horizontality of the Marine Culture District but still relates to the mountainous topography of the city. The opera house can be seen from all over the bay as a beautiful and strong silhouette that bounds to the characteristic of the city.
The opera house will be housing two main areas that contain 2000-seat opera and 1300-seat multifunctional theater. These volumes are loosely contained at the outer shell of the mountain where the opera house will sometime fuse with them or dissolve away to create views and passageways through its cavernous public space. The entry gateways of this mountain are positioned to face the amazing views of the city and the waterfront.
Designer : EMERGENT Architecture
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Laurentius library is a ring-shaped space-frame structure that houses more than 10,000 collection of books. Designed by Anton Markus Pasing, this library has its own background story. It was based on a clergyman who lived on a lonely highway near small community. This man loved reading books, however the loneliness became more and more depressing by days, therefore, he decided to build a library that contains books of religion, ethic, and philosophy accessible to everyone who is interested.
Designer : Anton Markus Pasing
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The 2012 Olympic basketball stadium has been designed as a temporary structure and is considered as the largest ever arena to be built for games. London as also constructed a main stadium worth £500 million and another expensive venue named, the Olympic Aquatics Center, which was designed by Zaha Hadid. The total sums from both the complexes as well as the Olympic village swayed London’s Olympic team to realize the stadium only as a temporary construction. Sinclair Knight Merz in partnership with Wilkinson Eyre as well as KSS has built a basketball arena, which is considered as the fastest structures to be constructed for games and ready a year in advance. The main decision to use the arena as a temporary structure for Olympics shows the common acuity that perception of structure equals epic architecture. While the stadium will have its 15 minutes next summer, it would be deconstructed and sent elsewhere for use.
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Zaha Hadid together with Lemghari Essakl signed a contract for the architectural plan of Rabat Grand Theatre at a ceremonial occasion that took place in Rabat on November 5. Mr.Essakl also signed agreements with few others during the event, namely Mr. Salaheddine Mezouar for project financing, Mr. Taieb Cherkaoui, for project Interiors and Mr. Abdelouahed Kabbaj for Economic and Social Development.
Occupying a total land area of nearly 47000 sqm with a floor area of nearly 27000 sqm, the innovatory Rabat Grand Theater is considered to be a cultural spot of the highest standards. With a capability of accommodating 2,050 seats and 520 smaller seats, the Grand Theatre features creative studios with a fully equipped outdoor amphitheatre capable of accommodating up to 7,000 people. As the name suggest, the cost of this project is estimated at £100 Million. It is expected that the Grand Theatre would be located at one of the largest development area of the Moroccan capital, the Bouregreg Valley. Wide range of housing, leisure and hospitality complexes is expected to be hosted by the end of the year 2014, which in turn would add more popularity to the Grand Theatre. With its pioneering and revolutionary infrastructure, Rabat will be one of the eye-catching destinations in this region.
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The Zaha Hadid’s works with bold shapes, a minimum of structural elements, fragmentation, and fluid lines, has inspired this bike’s design. The designer chooses to use carbon and Kevlar as the materials to reduce the impact of rigidity, provide greater strength and lightweight. This bike aims at young people who love innovations and appreciate performance as well as aesthetic value.
Designer : Marina Gatellli
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Core2sia is the name of this unique futuristic concept imagined by Hossein Ghahramani. The word “Core2sia” refers to the Italian word “cortesia” which translated means politeness, courteousness, courtliness. The number 2 inserted in the name reminds us that we are talking about a vehicle that has the ability to split in two, telling us that is something with 2 cores. Inspired by sea creatures and Zaha Hadid’s architecture lines, Hossein, developed his main idea of the concept. The main idea was to design a family car which consists of two vehicles in the same time inside a cover. The cover can be used as a cabin for camping when the cars are separated. The supple long shape of the two mini cars allows them to move easily in heavy traffic just as a motorcycle would find its way between other cars stuck in traffic. This interesting concept comes with more new features, one of these is the drive train.
Designer: Hossein Ghahramani
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The JS Bach Chamber Music Hall is a brilliant concept design installed at Manchester Art Gallery in order to house musical performances. The hall is built on a steel structure covered with a transparent fabric membrane suspended form the ceiling which divides and encloses the space aside from creating a stage, area for audience and passages for in and out of the hall. Above the stage, clear and acrylic panes are suspended, offering perfect disperse and reflect of sound. A massive ribbon swirls within the hall is carving out a visual and spatial response to the obscure relationships of Bach’s harmonies. Since the ribbon staggers above the performer and cascades into the ground along with wraps around the listeners, the original box shaped room is quite absent, rather, only fluid spaces are visible that are swelling, slipping and merging through one another. The design surely will enhance the diversity of Bach’s work via a coherent structural and formal logic integration.
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Award-winning architects Ben van Berkel (UNStudio) and Zaha Hadid have recently disclosed their designs for a couple of eco-pavilions that will be on everyone’s attention in the celebrations of Burnham Plan Centennial this summer in Chicago. The main goal of both pavilion’s design is to realize the importance of imagining a superior future for all. The Curvilinear pavilion designed by Hadid will be developed with stretched fabric over a frame made of aluminum. The tent-like shape has been planned to be collapsible and re-installed without any difficulties. On the other hand, Van Berkel crafted out various materials for his design including wood and steel.
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