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$1 Billion Iraqi Parliament Will Rise Over Saddam’s Half-Built Mosque

The Architect’s Journal reports that Zaha Hadid will be the architect of Iraq’s future parliament building, confirming rumors that have swirled for months. The supremely expensive building is the London-based architect’s third planned project in the country where she was born. Hadid, you might remember, came in third in a 2012 design competition for the…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 15

Tokyo Is Rethinking Its Gargantuan Olympic Stadium

A coalition of Japanese architects have said what everyone else was too polite to say: That Zaha Hadid-designed stadium is just too big, too expensive, and too impractical. Japanese officials have announced plans to scale back the design, which would cost $3.1 billion to build according to a recent budget update. For reference, that’s more…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Oct 25

Zaha Hadid’s First Storefront Puts a Living Legend Up Close

Even if you don’t get down with her brand of extreme formalism, it’s hard to deny that Zaha Hadid is a living legend. Hadid is one of the only female architects to have ever won the Pritzker Prize (well, unless you count those who were mysteriously excluded by the Pritzker jury) and the force behind…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan May 29

Inside Naomi Campbell’s New Spaceship House

Naomi Campbell’s new spaceship is almost done. The stunning 28,524-square-foot (2,650-square-meter) mansion feels like a smoothed Star Destroyer, with two 65-foot (20-meter) towers as the ship’s bridge overlooking lush hills covered with birch and pine forests. The photos and the scale is nothing short of stunning. The interior is as futuristic as the exterior, with…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 25

Stunning Ice Sculpture Table Will Never Melt Away

You won’t have to worry about global warming, or your broken air conditioner, causing architect Zaha Hadid’s beautiful Liquid Glacier table to melt away. It might look like a perfect frozen sculpture, but it’s actually made from long-lasting clear acrylic. You don’t even have to be particularly careful with it, since unlike both glass and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 28

The View From the London Olympics’ Diving Board Looks Piss-Your-Speedos Scary

Another London 2012 Olympics venue’s been checked off the list, and Zaha Hadid’s aquatic center is quite simply the most stunning yet. All swimming events, plus diving and water polo will be held here in front of 17,500 spectators. https://gizmodo.com/londons-olympics-basketball-stadium-looks-inflatable-bu-5811685/?tag=olympics Not to mention the millions of viewers tuning in from around the world on their…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 16

Grand New Opry

The Guangzhou Opera House. Just completed after seven years of construction, the insta-landmark comprises two separate buildings and overlooking Guangdong Province’s Pearl River. And its main auditorium, which seats 1,800 and looks like something not even the holodeck could dream up, is as acoustically advanced as it is beautiful. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 7

Future Faucet Looks Like It Should Be In a Museum

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. https://gizmodo.com/zaha-hadids-dubai-opera-house-design-makes-me-see-cylon-5013802 The touch sensitive controls can deliver filtered or unfiltered hot and cold water via two channels in the faucet neck—and…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 4

Interior Design That Looks Like an Alien Nest is Covering Your Wall

Click to viewIf you’ve always wanted to decorate your house to look like a shinier, cleaner version of the queen’s knobby, textured nest in Aliens, here is a template for you. Architect Zaha Hadid has created artistic interpretations of several buildings she’s designed, and they all look like beautiful monsters and spaceship interiors. See more…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 30

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

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…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 20

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

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…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jun 6

Haute Couture Spaceship Travels From City to City in Segments

In order to send a spaceship-like pavilion on a journey across the world, Zaha Hadid architects created this Chanel Pavilion, a portable 7500 square foot art venue that will travel from Hong Kong to New York to Moscow to Paris over the next year. The steel structure breaks apart into segments that are no more…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Mar 17

Teardrop Skyscrapers and a Metonymic Park in Seoul 2016

Eight years and $31 billion from now, Seoul, Korea’s Yongsan business district’s cityscape will feature a whole new set of super-tall, futuristic buildings. The project is led by a seemingly odd alliance between Samsung Corporation and the National Pension Fund Service. The nearby metonymic Dongdaemun World Design Park will open in 2010. It’s designed by…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Jan 29

Space-Age Igloo Train Station at Ski Resort

Austria got a major facelift last month with the completion of the Nordpark Cable Railway, which connects four major rail stations with a wildly popular ski resort at Innsbruck. The fantabulous igloo theme and the space station-like interiors are all thanks to star architect Zaha Hadid, who previously designed a ski jump in Innsbruck that…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Jan 16

A Transluscent Addition to the Hong Kong Skyline

Hong Kong Polytechnic University needed a major image boost. So administrators hired hot shot London-based architect Zaha Hadid to create a brand new building, the Innovation Tower, which will house its design school. Starting in 2011, students will disappear into the spaceship-like main lobby via escalator and continue up to four stories of translucent workspaces…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Jan 9

$1 Billion Iraqi Parliament Will Rise Over Saddam’s Half-Built Mosque

Tokyo Is Rethinking Its Gargantuan Olympic Stadium

Zaha Hadid’s First Storefront Puts a Living Legend Up Close

Inside Naomi Campbell’s New Spaceship House

Stunning Ice Sculpture Table Will Never Melt Away

The View From the London Olympics’ Diving Board Looks Piss-Your-Speedos Scary

Grand New Opry

Future Faucet Looks Like It Should Be In a Museum

Interior Design That Looks Like an Alien Nest is Covering Your Wall

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

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

Haute Couture Spaceship Travels From City to City in Segments

Teardrop Skyscrapers and a Metonymic Park in Seoul 2016

Space-Age Igloo Train Station at Ski Resort

A Transluscent Addition to the Hong Kong Skyline

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