Zaha Hadid Was One of the Most Polarizing Architects of Our Time
Zaha Hadid has died suddenly at age 65 from a heart attack. As the first woman architect to achieve notable celebrity,…
Zaha Hadid's New Skyscraper Looks Like a Big Huge Earplug
You might’ve seen Zaha Hadid’s name in the news recently. After Japan’s Sports Council announced a design to her…
Japan's Olympic Stadium Debacle May Change the Way Cities Build Sports Venues
After years of controversy, Japan’s Sport Council has chosen a new design for an Olympic stadium in Tokyo. It will be…
Japan Just Cancelled Its Outrageously Expensive Olympic Stadium Design
And in doing so, made itself a poster child for rethinking the insane costs of major sporting events like the Olympics,…
What Ugly Building Can You Just Not Help Loving?
We know they’re bad for us. We know we shouldn’t like them. BUT STILL WE DO. What building that everyone else considers…
Damn, a Giant Piece of Concrete Just Fell Off a Zaha Hadid Building
In an anecdote straight out of Final Destination: Architectural Terror (coming 2016), Austrian newspaper Die Presse and …
New building in the Arabian desert looks like an alien spaceship fleet
This is Zaha Hadid's latest building, the headquarters for UAE's environmental management company Bee'ah, in the…
The Fight Over Tokyo's Olympic Stadium Is Getting Very, Very Ugly
We already knew that Japanese architects (and the public) are no fans of Zaha Hadid's massive Olympic stadium—they've…
Zaha Hadid Has Designed the World's Worst Billboard
Well, here it is: the world's worst billboard. Not that billboards are ever, like, especially great. And that's why for…
These Alien Skyscrapers Will Rest on the Site of an Old Uranium Plant
The Pritzker Prize-winning starchitect Zaha Hadid just released images of her latest design—three matching towers for…
6 Buildings Competing For the UK's Top Architecture Prize
The Stirling Prize is one of the most prestigious of all architecture awards. Named for the great British architect…
How Vacant World Cup Stadiums Could Be Turned Into Housing
The World Cup ends this weekend, leaving Brazil with the heady task of deciding what, exactly, to do with the 12…
Here's What Saving $1.3 Billion On a New Stadium Looks Like
Yesterday we learned that London-based architect Zaha Hadid had rethought her design for Tokyo's Olympic Stadium, after…
Cities Are Finally Fighting Back Against Insane Olympic Costs
A petition with tens of thousands of signatures. Protestors in the streets. Fiery op-eds. All this public unrest in…
The Best Buildings In The World?
The winners of Architizer's A+ Awards have been announced, and some of the picks are awesome. Here's a round-up of the…
Architect Zaha Hadid Says 500 Worker Deaths Are Not Her Problem
Qatar's overtly yonic soccer stadium, a global architectural symbol of the forthcoming 2022 World Cup, has seen its…
6 Jaw-Dropping Superyachts Designed by Architects
Generally speaking, architects are brilliant and creative people with a wide range of talents. That sort of versatility…
Too bad this awesome stadium for Qatar's World Cup is made by slaves
I like Zaha Hadid's design for Qatar's flagship World Cup football stadium, but I hate everything else about it, from…
The Grim Secret Behind Qatar's Lavish New Stadiums: Human Rights Abuse
Don't hate Zaha Hadid's new World Cup stadium because it looks like a vagina. Hate it because it'll likely be built…