It will be the last posthumous completed project with direct involvement of Zaha Hadid before her death
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Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi and British architect, artist, and designer. She is recognised as a key figure in the architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and later enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. In search of an alternative to traditional architectural drawing, a…
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culture · Iraqi and British architect (1950–2016) · architect · designer · university teacher · jewelry designer · artist · sculptor · painter · also Zaha Hadid, Zaha Mohammad Hadid, Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, Zaha M. Hadid, Zaha Hadid CBE, Dame Zaha Hadid
Born 31 October 1950 · Died 31 March 2016 · Q47780
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2027· 1 entry
2026· 3 entries
“I don’t really feel I’m part of the establishment. I’m not outside, I’m on the kind of edge, I’m dangling there. I quite like it … I’m not against the establishment per se. I just do what I do and that’s it.”
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“transparency, porousness, and durability.”
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“its fluid form emerges from the folds of the natural topography of the landscape and envelops the different functions of the centre”
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2022· 2 entries
“The stadium was designed in conjunction with a new precinct so that it sits at the heart of an urban extension of the city, creating community-based activities in and around the stadium on non-event days.”
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To look after Hadid's legacy and a collection of over 15,000 works by or related to Hadid, and is the only architectural foundation dedicated to a solo woman of colour
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2020· 1 entry
And the construction of the fourth residential tower started in 2021 and was completed in 2024
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2016· 7 entries
Won Royal Gold Medal (2016).
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Died 2016-03-31.
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As having "the highly expressive, sweeping fluid forms of multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry that evoke the chaos and flux of modern life"
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In Antwerp, Belgium a square was named after her, Zaha Hadidplein, in front of the extension of the Antwerp Harbour House designed by Zaha Hadid
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In an article titled "Zaha Hadid Architects Unveils Monumental Skyscraper Project for NYC"
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“Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.”
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The gallery launched Zaha's final collection of furniture entitled UltraStellar
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2014· 2 entries
2015 and 2016, Hadid appeared on Debrett's list of the most influential people in the UK
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The Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, designed by her, won the Design Museum Design of the Year Award, making her the first woman to win the top prize in that competition
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2013· 4 entries
Was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4
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Hadid designed Liquid Glacial for David Gill Gallery which comprises a series of tables resembling ice-formations made from clear and coloured acrylic
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– (29 June – 29 September) – Zaha Hadid: World Architecture at the Danish Architecture Centre
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Hadid founded a charitable organisation, the Zaha Hadid Foundation
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2012· 5 entries
Awarded Distinguished Guest of Mexico City (2012).
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Awarded Jane Drew Prize (2012).
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Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2012).
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Hadid won an international competition to design a new National Olympic Stadium as part of the successful bid by Tokyo to host the 2020 Summer Olympics
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Was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in February 2016, the month before her death, she became the first woman to be individually awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of B
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded Stirling Prize for Evelyn Grace Academy (2011).
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The construction on the project only began in late 2018 and it is scheduled to be completed in 2025
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That Hadid "produced a building that seems to suck the surrounding landscape into a vortex of movement and swirling space
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2010· 6 entries
Awarded Stirling Prize for MAXXI (2010).
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For one of her most celebrated works, the MAXXI in Rome, and in 2011 for the Evelyn Grace Academy, a Z‑shaped school in Brixton, London
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Commissioned by the Iraqi government to design the new building for the Central Bank of Iraq
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Was named by Time as an influential thinker in the 2010 TIME 100 issue
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The construction on the project began in December 2016
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The construction on the Sky Park Tower only began in 2024
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2009).
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Worked with the clothing brand Lacoste to create a new, high fashion, and advanced boot
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2008).
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Was ranked 69th on the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women"
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2007· 2 entries
Hadid designed Dune Formations for David Gill Gallery and the Moon System Sofa for leading Italian furniture manufacturer B&B Italia
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– Dune Formations with David Gill Gallery – Venice Biennale
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded RIBA Charles Jencks Award (2006).
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Zaha Hadid founded Zaha Hadid Design (ZHD); her eponymous design studio
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Was honoured with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; that year she also received an Honorary Degree from the American University of Beirut
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2005).
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Her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland and she was elected as a Royal Academician
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2004· 4 entries
Awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004).
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The jury chairman, Lord Rothschild, commented: "At the same time as her theoretical and academic work, as a practising architect, Zaha Hadid has been unswerving in her commitment to modernism
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Won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious award in architecture, though she had only completed four buildings – the Vitra Fire Station, the Ski Lift in Innsbruck Austria, the Car Park and Terminus Hoe
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Hadid became the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (2003).
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2002· 3 entries
Won the competition to design a new administrative building for the factory of the auto manufacturer BMW in Leipzig, Germany
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Hadid won an international competition for her first project in China
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Hadid won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north master plan
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2001· 1 entry
Began another museum project, an extension of the Ordrupgaard Museum near Copenhagen, Denmark, a museum featuring a collection of 19th century French and Danish art in the 19th-century mansion of its collector
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2000· 2 entries
But then the project was delayed due to funding and technical issues
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Won an international competition for the Phaeno Science Center, in Wolfsburg, Germany (2002–2005)
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1994· 2 entries
Hadid was commissioned by the city of Vienna to design and construct a three-part scheme for the urban redevelopment of an area adjacent to the Danube Canal
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Was the Kenzo Tange Visiting professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
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1993· 1 entry
Invited Hadid to design a small fire station for the factory
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1989· 1 entry
Fehlbaum had invited Frank Gehry, then little-known, to build a design museum at the Vitra factory in Weil-am-Rhein
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1988· 1 entry
When she was selected as one of seven architects featured in the "Deconstructivism in Architecture" exhibition curated by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley at New York's Museum of Modern Art
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1977· 2 entries
Went to work for her former professors, Koolhaas and Zenghelis at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Studied at Architectural Association School of Architecture (1972–1977).
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1972· 1 entry
To London to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-10-31.
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1932· 1 entry
A significant political organisation in the 1930s and 1940s
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1926· 1 entry
Had been used in the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics
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