It is the most important american building to be completed since the end of the cold war said architecture critic herbert muschamp. At the building s opening in 2003 it was the first american art museum designed by a woman and it was also hadid s debut in the united states. The most recent completed project by the esteemed firm is the changsha meixihu international culture and art centre located in changsha.
Another day another zaha hadid architects masterpiece. Creator of ambitious wonders and a fair share of blunders in her best buildings the laws of physics appear suspended while other designs struggle when forced to meet reality. 950 projects 44 countries 400 staff 55 nations welcome to the interactive archive of zaha hadid architects.
We create transformative cultural corporate residential and other spaces that work in synchronicity with their surroundings. We work at all scales and in all sectors. She received the uk s most prestigious architectural award the stirling prize in 2010 and 2011 in 2012 she was made a dame by elizabeth ii for services to architecture and.
She was the first woman to receive the pritzker architecture prize in 2004. 31 october 1950 31 march 2016 was a british iraqi architect. زها حديد zahā ḥadīd.
Dame zaha mohammad hadid dbe ra arabic. Hadid s structures are famous for their use of fragmented geometry and multiple entry points such that the building looks different from different perspectives. Zaha hadid was a prolific and visionary architect and designer as well as the only female recipient of the pritzker prize for architecture since its 1979 inception.
