Gizmodo: zaha hadid

Future Faucet Looks Like It Should Be In a Museum

Sean Fallon — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:20:00 EST

Award winning architect Zaha Hadid has applied her love of curvy, metallic design into this cutting edge faucet. Seriously, it could easily be part of a sculptural exhibit at some fancy modern art museum.

The touch sensitive controls can deliver filtered or unfiltered hot and cold water via two channels in the faucet neck—and the best part is that you will actually be able to by this sometime in the near future. Well, those of us with a lot of money to blow on a faucet that is. [Triflow via Dezeen via DVICE]

Metal Bar to Serve Space Cocktails at Home, Travel to the Future

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:20:00 EDT

How much do I like this home metal bar, this beautiful sculpture/unidentified drinking object created by architect Zaha Hadid for London's Home House? Let me count the ways:

1. Manhattan:

2 oz blended whiskey
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
1/2 oz dry vermouth
1 dash bitters

Stir with ice, strain, add cherry.

2. Margarita:

3 oz tequila
2 oz triple sec
1 oz fresh lime juice

Shake with ice, strain.

3. Dry Martini:

1 2/3 oz gin
1/3 oz dry vermouth

Stir with ice, strain, add olive.

4. Caipirinha:

Crushed lime and sugar to taste
Crushed Ice
Cachaça

Mix in glass.

I can keep on going, but I have a date. With a glass. [IHT via dvice]

Zaha Hadid's Dubai Opera House Design Makes Me See Cylon Raiders

AddyDugdale — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:20:00 EDT

I'm just wondering if British architect Zaha Hadid is a Battlestar Galactica fan. It seems so, as her design for the Dubai Opera House is reminiscent of those croissant-shaped fighters that zing through space, facing down Starbuck et al. The development will go up on an island in Dubai Creek, and as well as hosting an auditorium with room for 2,500 people to hear fat ladies singing, it will house an 800-seat playhouse, arts gallery, performing arts school and six-star themed hotel. [Dezeen]