FAMOUS ARCHITECTS

And Their Contributions to the World

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FAMOUS ARCHITECTS
And Their Contributions to the World

NORMAN ROBERT

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Norman Foster was born in Manchester. After graduating from Manchester University
School

of Architecture and City Planning in 1961 he won a Henry Fellowship to Yale

University, where he was a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and gained a
Masters Degree in Architecture.
In 1963 he co-founded Team 4 and in 1967 he established Foster
Associates, now known as Foster + Partners. Founded in London, over

the

past four decades the practice has been responsible for a strikingly
wide range of work, from urban master plans, public infrastructure,
airports, civic and cultural buildings, offices and workplaces to private

houses and furniture design.

Norman Foster was awarded the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1983, the Gold
Medal for the French Academy of Architecture in 1991 and the American Institute of Architects
Gold Medal in 1994. Also in 1994, he was appointed Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the
Ministry of Culture in France. In 1999 he became the twenty-first Pritzker Architecture Prize
Laureate; and in 2002 he was elected to the German Orden Pour le Mrite fr Wissenschaften
und Knste and in Tokyo was awarded the Praemium Imperiale. He was granted a Knighthood in
the Queens Birthday Honours List, 1990, and appointed by the Queen to the Order of Merit in
1997. In 1999 he was honoured with a life peer age in the Queens Birthday Honours List, taking
the title Lord Foster of Thames Bank.

As an architect,
you design for the
present, with an
awareness of the
past, for a future

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Numerous Honorary Degrees

from universities around the world
1990 Knighthood
1998/2004 Stirling Prize
1999 Life Peerage
1999 Pritzker Prize
2006/2008 Most Admired Architect

(AJ 100)
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2007| HIS
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Global practice
Over 1250 team members assigned

to 7 teams
80+ Projects in over 50 countries
Received over 470 awards and
citations- NORMAN FOSTER

Won more than 86 competitions

MRT Station Singapore

Architecture

This is a structure built in the space age architecture style,

with its innovative columns and pillars free design allowing for a
sense of open space, not hindered by concrete walls. All the
pillars actually support the structure by being hidden behind the
train tracks and away from the circulated spaces. Thus, an
immense free space has been created in order to facilitate
mass circulation of people on a daily basis.
The main construction materials included glass, steel and titanium. It was opened
to public in January 2001, and it is built with full access for people with disabilities as
well.

02 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Hearst Tower, New York City

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The Hearst tower can be found on the top of the 1928 constructed office building.
The tower only has 46 floors, and is 182 meters high. It was constructed between 2003
and 2006, and it is considered one very important environmentally friendly or green
building in the world (it was actually the first such structure in New York).
The design allowed for using much less steel frame than normally such a building
would require (with about 25% less), thanks to its diagrid-weaved pattern. Other
environmentally friendly patterns include the limestone heat conductive floors of the
atrium, and the huge rainwater collector tank, which allows for water reutilisation inside
the building (for watering purpose and for the cooling system mainly). It is also the very
first building in New York to receive the Gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design) Certification. The Hearst tower is one of the most wonderful
combinations of traditional and futuristic architecture which are blending in perfect
harmony (the base built in the 20s and the tower in the 21st century).

03 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Reichstag, New German Parliament

A landmark for the German people, the Reichstag went through a restoration session in
1993.

Based

on

the plans of

Norman
Foster,

the

dome was rebuilt in the form of a glass cupola, with a spiral walkway represented through a
conical structure. It stands as the most prominent landmarks of Berlin today, receiving millions of
visitors from all around the world.
The conical structure within the interior uses mirrored facades to reflect the sunlight and
spread it within the building. Moreover, this is an environmentally friendly building, being highly
energy efficient.

04 | HIS MASTERPIECE | City Hall, London

This modern architectural style, slightly tilted structure has been opened to public
in 2002, and it was built following the master plans of Norman Foster and associates.
Its overall cost for construction was 65 million, and it is a highly energy efficient
building. It has a bulbous shape, which serves to reduce the actual surface area, thus
allowing energy saving.
The design of the building heavily borrows from the design of the Reichstag
Dome in Berlin, with its helical stairway structure and the oval/rounded shape of the
building. Also, thanks to the materials used and the overall design, the building is a
symbol for transparency, just like Reichstag is.

05 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Clyde Auditorium Glasgow

This beautiful, contemporary style building is a very popular concert venue of

Glasgow Scotland, also known as The Armadillo (because of its resemblance to the
armadillo mammal). It has been opened to public in 1997, and it has 30,000 seats. The

shape of the building was not only chosen for pure design, but it also has a very
practical side: to get the best acoustic experience.
Many critics have compared the Clyde Auditorium with the Sydney Opera House;
there are indeed many similarities, however the Sydney structure did not serve as a
prime model for the architects to design the Scottish Auditorium. The exterior shell-like
structure is made of titanium alloy, which is the sole material that allows the creation of
such beautiful, perfectly sleek and curved designs.

06 | HIS MASTERPIECE | St. Mary Axe London

Known as the Gherkin Building (or even sometimes the Cucumber), this wonderful
architectural landmark is not only beautiful but also a very environmentally friendly
building. It was completed in 2003 based upon the master plans of Norman Foster and
associates. The building is very famous for its natural ventilation system which thanks to
the huge shafts or cylinders placed on each floor the natural air can circulate in the
building.
With the use of passive solar heating system, in winter the building warms up the air it
subtracts from the outside. In summer periods, the shafts work as huge warm air pumps,
thus creating a cool atmosphere within the building. Energy is also being saved, because
these huge shafts also have the purpose of letting natural light into the building.

07 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Millennium Bridge, London

This suspension bridge opened to public on June 10 th 2000, automatically becoming

a landmark of the new millennium. The structure is 325 meters long, is made of steel, and
has a 4-metre wide aluminium deck. The design of the bridge allows a very good visibility
of the River Thames and the surroundings, because the suspension cables are placed
below deck level, instead of hanging up in the air. When Foster and Partners, Arup and
Anthony Caro entered the competition with their design, the project was called The Blade
of Light.

09 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Free University, Berlin

This university is among the top 3 academic institutions in Germany, where social
and natural sciences research and doctoral programs are conducted. Its construction took
around 8 years until final completion (1997-2005), and given its oval egg-shape like
design, some call it a fine piece of Eggchitecture.
Some critics argue that the ultra modern library building with curved shapes, does
not match the rectangular, traditional structures that one can find on campus. However, the
entire project seems to have fitted in perfectly, being a symbol for change, future and
environmentally friendly strategy implementations.

10 | HIS MASTERPIECE | American Air Museum

The structure is homage to the lost American airmen during the Second World War,
but also to brave fighters who fought in Vietnam and Korea. The museum is built in
contemporary architectural style by Foster and Partners, and inside one can catch a
glimpse of famous aircrafts such as the B-52 Stratoforttress or the P-47 Thunderbolt, and
most of them are suspended up in the air, which gives a very realistic sensation like these
aircrafts are actually up in the sky, flying.
The structure is built to imitate a hangar, and the mirrored glass wall faade gives
the entire building a sense of lavish modernity.

F R A N K

L L O Y D

W R I G H T

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Frank Lloyd Wright was a modern architect who developed an

organic and distinctly American style. He designed numerous
iconic buildings.
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Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland

Center, Wisconsin. After college, he became chief assistant to
architect Louis Sullivan. Wright then founded his own firm and developed a style known as the

Prairie school, which strove for an "organic architecture" in designs for homes and commercial
buildings. Over his career he created numerous iconic buildings. He died April 9, 1959.
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Frank Lloyd Wright was born June 8, 1867, in Richland Centre, Wisconsin. (Although he
often stated his birthday as June 8, 1869, records prove that he was in fact born in 1867.) His
mother, Anna Lloyd Jones, was a teacher from a large Welsh family who had settled in Spring
Green, Wisconsin, where Wright later built his famous home, Taliesin. His father, William Carey
Wright, was a preacher and a musician. Wright's family moved frequently during his early years,
living in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Iowa before settling in Madison, Wisconsin, when
Frank Lloyd Wright was 12 years old. He spent his summers with mother's family in Spring Green.
An outdoorsy child, Wright fell deeply in love with the Wisconsin landscape he explored as a boy.
"The modelling of the hills, the weaving and fabric that clings to them, the look of it all in tender
green or covered with snow or in full glow of summer that bursts into the glorious blaze of
autumn," he later reminisced. "I still feel myself as much a part of it as the trees and birds and
bees are, and the red barns."
In 1885, the year Wright graduated from public high school in Madison, his parents
divorced and his father moved away, never to be heard from again. That year, Wright enrolled at
the University of Wisconsin at Madison to study civil engineering; in order to pay his tuition and
help support his family, he worked for the dean of the engineering department and assisted the
acclaimed architect Joseph Silsbee with the construction of the Unity Chapel. The experience
convinced Wright that he wanted to become an architect, and in 1887 he dropped out of school to
go to work for Silsbee in Chicago.
F R A N K

L L O Y D

W R I G H T S

D E A T H

Frank Lloyd Wright passed away on April 9, 1959, at the age 91, six months before the
Guggenheim opened its doors. Wright is widely considered the greatest architect of the 20th
century, and the greatest American architect of all time. He perfected a distinctly American style of
architecture that emphasized simplicity and natural beauty in contrast to the elaborate and ornate
architecture that had prevailed in Europe. With seemingly superhuman energy and persistence,
Wright designed more than 1,100 buildings during his lifetime, nearly one third of which he
designed during his last decade. The historian Robert Twombly wrote of Wright, "His surge of
creativity after two decades of frustration was one of the most dramatic resuscitations in American

art history, made more impressive by the fact that Wright was seventy years old in 1937." Wright
lives on through the beautiful buildings he designed, as well as through the powerful and enduring
idea that guided all of his workthat buildings should serve to honor and enhance the natural
beauty surrounding them. "I would like to have a free architecture," Wright wrote. "Architecture
that belonged where you see it standingand is a grace to the landscape instead of a disgrace."

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most influential and imaginative architects of the
20th Century.

His architectural career lasted almost 70 years.

In 1887, he moved to Chicago and worked for Joseph Lyman Silsbee, a prominent
architect of that time, for whom he designed his first building.

After working for Silsbee, Wright spent six years working directly under Louis
Sullivan, the most influential American architect at that time.

Frank Lloyd Wright developed the theory "Form and Function Are One."

His early homes and buildings inspired the Prairie School of Architecture, a group of
architects whose style was developed to accommodate the Midwestern lifestyle and
environment.

In 1932, Wright opened his home up for young architects to study with him, creating
the Taliesin Fellowship.

During his final years, he designed two of his most famous projects, the
Guggenheim Museum and the Marin County Civic Center.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed 1141 homes and buildings, of those 532 were
completed by his death.

Frank Lloyd Wright had a global impact on modern architecture, influencing design
styles not only in America, but also in Europe and Asia.
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R S O N A L

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L E G

A C Y

He married Catherine Wright in 1889. The couple had six children. After several
years of marriage he abandoned his wife and family to be with a married woman
Mamah, who was murdered later on by a mentally unstable servant. His first wife
divorced him in 1922.

His second marriage was to Maude Noel in 1923. This marriage lasted only four
years before ending in 1927.

His final marriage was to Olga Ivanovna in 1928. They remained married till his
death.

After a career spanning seven decades, he died in 1959 at the age of 91.
M A J O R

W O R K S

The Fallingwater, a house designed by him was named the "best all-time work of
American architecture in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects. The home
was partially built over a waterfall which adds to its aesthetic appeal.

He designed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum which is a cylindrical museum

building considered to be one of the most important landmarks of the 20th century.

The architect should strive continually

to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms
should then be carefully considered that
comfort and utility may go hand in hand
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
01 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio ,
Oak Park, Illinois
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The

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio (1889/1898) served as Wright's private residence and
workplace from 1889 to 1909the first 20 years of his career. Wright used his home as an
architectural laboratory, experimenting with design concepts that contain the seeds of his
architectural philosophy.
Frank Lloyd Wright used his first home to experiment with design concepts that contain the
seeds of his architectural philosophy. In his adjacent studio, Wright and his associates developed
a new American architecture - the Prairie style. Trained interpreters offer insights into Wright's
family life and architectural career.

02 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago,

Illinois

The Robie House on the University of Chicago campus is considered one of the most
important buildings in the history of American architecture. It was created by Frank Lloyd Wright
for his client Frederick C. Robie, a forward-thinking businessman. Designed in Wright's Oak Park
studio in 1908 and completed in 1910, the building is both a masterpiece of the Prairie style and
renowned as a forerunner of modernism in architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House is both a masterpiece of the Prairie style and an icon of
modern architecture. Trained interpreters offer insights into amazing contemporary spaces
designed by Wright over a hundred years ago. Visitors can explore the home while witnessing the
current restoration which is returning the building to its original splendor.

03 | HIS MASTERPIECE | The Rookery , Chicago, Illinois

Set in the heart of Chicagos financial district, at 209 South LaSalle Street, Daniel Burnham
and John Roots Rookery Building is a Chicago landmark, containing a luminous and brilliantly
articulated central light court remodeling by Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1905, Wright was
commissioned to remodel the Rookery light court and lobbies. He realized a stunning balance
between Burnham & Roots ornamental ironwork and his own vision to create a spectacular
environment.

The Rookery building stands testimony to the resilience and creative spirit of latenineteenth century Chicago. The rebirth of the city in the wake of the Great Fire of 1871 gave rise
to the multi-storied office building that would transform the landscape of Americas cities. Amidst
the atmosphere of experimentation and innovation that defined post-fire Chicago, the architectural
firm of Burnham and Root rose to prominence. Daniel H. Burnham and John Wellborn Root
formed their partnership in 1873. By the time they received the commission for The Rookery, in
1885, the firm had already established a strong reputation in tall commercial structures.

04 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Unity Church , Oak Park, Illinois

Unity Church was the first public building of any type in America to be built entirely of
exposed concrete. Its use was dictated in part by the need to keep construction costs low, but
Wrights principle of integrity called for the building to be thoroughbred, meaning built in character
out of the same material, and therefore reinforced concrete was the only material possible.
Most critics consider this sanctuary one of Wrights highest achievements. The ceiling is
opened above the central cube into a grid of beams, into which are set 25 stained-glass skylights.
Clerestories run full width across the tops of each balcony just under the roof. Light enters the
sanctuary only from above and is filtered by the colors and patterns of the leaded windows and
skylights. As Wright said, the space is flooded with light from above to get a sense of a happy
cloudless day into the room the light would, rain or shine, have the warmth of sunlight.

05 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Taliesin III , Spring Green, Wisconsin

I knew well that no house should ever be put on a hill or on anything. It should be of the
hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

The residence of Wright and his family and, later, the summer home of the Taliesin
Fellowship, Taliesin rests on the brow of a hill overlooking a valley of the Wisconsin River. Taliesin
has been described as the architects autobiography in wood and stone.

06 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Honeycomb House, Stanford, California

This Usonian house built for Paul R. Hanna is planned on a hexagonal grid system with
most walls meeting at 120-degree angles. Many interior walls are wood and can be easily
assembled or disassembled for reconfiguration of living space.
The plan of the Paul R. Hanna Residence is a variation of the L-shaped Usonian plan and
is based on a hexagonal grid system which results in more flexible interior space than a system
based on the square or rectangle.
The hexagons upon which the system is based prompted the name Honeycomb House.
The house is not a hexagon, but has a free-flowing plan that curves around the hillside it rests
upon. Walls are set at 120-degree angles which are much more open than the 90-degree angles
found in typical residential structures.The non-masonry walls of the house could be easily
assembled or disassembled, allowing for flexible alteration of interior space.
The Hanna Residence is located in Stanford CA and is maintained by Stanford University.

07 | HIS MASTERPIECE | S.C. Johnson Administration Building ,

Racine, Wisconsin

The great workroom of the Johnson Building has been called one of Wrights most
astonishing spaces. The slender, hollow concrete columns are each capable of supporting six
times the weight imposed on them.
The design Wright developed for the S. C. Johnson Administration Building was of great
simplicity, in his words. On the 245 square foot site, he placed a double-height great workroom
measuring more than 120 feet by 200 feet, with columns spaced at twenty feet in both directions,
surrounded by a 17-foot deep mezzanine and a solid brick wall at the outer edge.
To enter the building, one moves from the garage portico, its columns only 8.5 feet tall, to
the lobby with columns rising to over 30 feet, and finally into the workroom, where the columns
rise to 25 feet in height.

08 | HIS MASTERPIECE | S.C. Johnson Research Tower , Racine,

Wisconsin

Utilizing principles of design and construction that he initially conceptualized in the 1920s,
the Research Tower was Wrights first cantilevered high-rise structure. Together with the earlier
Administration Building, it is considered one of his greatest designs.
Wright designed a tower for the S. C. Johnson research laboratories to balance the
predominantly horizontal composition of the Administration Building. The project gave him the first
chance to build the cantilevered high-rise ideal he had earlier conceived in the 1920s. The design

of the Research Tower consists of fourteen levels, seven of which are square plans with a circular
mezzanine above. The central structural and circulation core accommodates the elevator and
stairway channels as well as necessary ventilation and services. From the central core, the floor
slabs are cantilevered out like branches of a tree. The entire outside surface is sheathed in glass
tubes like the adjacent Administration Building to admit light without a view. The single reinforced
concrete foundation for the central core is called the tap root and was based on an idea
originally proposed in 1929.

09 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New

York, New York

Of the museums interior Wright said, We are not building a cellular composition of
compartments, but one where all is one great space on a continuous floor no meeting of the eye
with angular or abrupt changes of form It has been called one of the great architectural spaces
of the 20th century. The spiral form that characterized the design from the earliest stage went
through several versions; with tiers of the same size, or growing progressively smaller toward the
top, or expanding in size as the building rose.

10 | HIS MASTERPIECE | Fallingwater (1935), Bear Run,

Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania

In Fallingwater, which was built as a weekend retreat for Edgar J. Kaufmann, we see
Wrights greatest expression of organic architecture the union of the structure and the land
upon which it is built. Fallingwater is considered Wrights masterwork.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed an extraordinary house known as Fallingwater that redefined
the relationship between man, architecture, and nature. The house was built as a weekend home
for owners Mr. Edgar Kaufmann, his wife, and their son, whom he developed a friendship with
through their son who was studying at Wright's school, the Taliesin Fellowship.
The waterfall had been the family's retreat for fifteen years and when they commissioned
Wright to design the house they envisioned one across from the waterfall, so that they could have
it in their view. Instead, Wright integrated the design of the house with the waterfall itself, placing it
right on top of it to make it a part of the Kaufmanns' lives. William Allin Storrer describes
Fallingwater as the best-known private home for someone not of royal blood in the history of the
world. Perched over a waterfall on Bear Run in the western Pennsylvania highlands, the rural
retreat constructed for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., has also been called the fullest realization of
Wrights lifelong ideal of a living place completely at one with nature. Reinforced-concrete
cantilever slabs project from the rocks to carry the house over the stream. From the living room, a
suspended stairway leads directly down to the stream. On the third level immediately above,
terraces open from sleeping quarters, emphasizing the horizontal nature of the structural forms.
Wright himself described Fallingwater as a great blessing one of the great blessings to be
experienced here on earth.

D A M E

Z A H A

H A D I D

ZAHA HADID

Born in Baghdad Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid commenced her college studies at the American
University in

Beirut, in the field of mathematics. She moved to London in 1972 to

study

architecture at the Architectural Association and upon graduation in

1977,

she joined the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). She also

taught at the Architectural Association (AA) with OMA
collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis.
She began her own practice in London in 1980 and won the
prestigious competition for the Hong Kong Peak Club, a

leisure and recreational center in 1983. Painting and drawing, especially in her early period, are

important techniques of investigation for her design work. Ever since her 1983 retrospective
exhibition at the AA in London, her architecture has been shown in exhibitions worldwide and
many of her works are held in important museum collections.
Known as an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban
design, her work experiments with new spatial concepts intensifying existing urban landscapes
and encompassing all fields of design, from the urban scale to interiors and furniture.
She is well-known for some of her seminal built works, such at the Vitra Fire Station (1993),
Weil am Rhein, Germany, the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome (1999) Greenwich, UK, a ski
jump (2002) in Innsbruck, Austria and the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003) in
Cincinnati, Ohio. Parallel with her private practice, Hadid has continued to be involved in
academics, holding chairs and guest professorships at Harvard University, Yale University, the
University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia University, the University of Visual Arts in Hamburg and
the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
The first woman and first Muslim to receive the Pritzker Prize in architecture in 2004. She
was also awarded the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. She was known for her futuristic designs
and use of curving formations with fragmented geometry and numerous points of perspective.

Hadids personal list of achievements numbers over 100 prestigious awards and
honors. She received her first award in 1982, the Gold Medal Architectural Design
for her British Architecture.

In 2004, she became the first woman and one of the youngest recipients of the
Pritzker Prize for architecture. This award is commonly known throughout the world
as architectures highest honor.

In 2012, Hadid was given the honor of Dame Commander of the Order of the British
Empire.

In 2014, the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, designed by her, won the Design
Museum Design of the Year Award.

M A J O R

W O R K S

In 2003, she completed the building of the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for
Contemporary Art. This was the first American museum designed by a woman and
proclaimed the most important American building to be completed since the cold
war by the New York Times.

In 2010, her Maxxi building design was awarded the Stirling Prize. The national
museum is located in Rome and is said to be a masterpiece fit to sit alongside
Romes ancient wonders, (The Guardian)
T R I V I A

Before her fame as an architect, she had a successful teaching career at several
institutions. These included the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the
University of Illinois at Chicagos School of Architecture.

Zaha Hadid was once the highest paid architect in the world. At the time of her
death, her estimated net worth was a staggering $215 million

Good education is so important. We do

need to look at the way people are taught.
It not just about qualifications to get a job.
It's about being educated.
- ZAHA HADID
01 | HER MASTERPIECE | Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse
Road, Glasgow, Scotland,

Situated, as the name would suggest, beside the river in Glasgow, The Riverside is one of
Hadids most beautiful British buildings. The zinc-clad zig-zagging roof echoes the ripples on the
nearby water of the river Clyde. Such a dynamic building is suitable for a museum of transport and
both internally and externally the building meanders and flows around the space it occupies.
Hadids unusual approach to the Riverside Museum has made it an icon of the Glasgow skyline.
Housing a museum of transport with over 3,000 exhibits, the building has a 36 metre-high
glazed frontage overlooking the River Clyde. Visitors build up a gradual sense of the external
context as they move through the museum from exhibit to exhibit. The building, open at opposite
ends, has a tunnel-like configuration between the city and the Clyde.

02 | HER MASTERPIECE | Vitra Design Museum, Charles-EamesStrae 2, Weil am Rhein, Germany

In 1981, a fire crippled the Vitra Design Campus, about a decade later Hadid was
commissioned for the important role of ensuring that this never happened again and the Vitra Fire
Station was built. Completed in 1993, this was Hadids first built project and with this small building
she made her mark on the world of architecture. With the soaring planes of deconstructivisim and
the interplay of space, void and line, Zaha Hadid has created what will be regarded as a pivotal
structure in the career of a great architect.

03 | HER MASTERPIECE | Ordrupgaard, Vilvordevej 110,

Charlottenlund, Denmark

Zaha Hadid is an architect who listens to her environment. With the riverside, she mimicked
the river Clyde and at the Ordrupgard Extension in Copenhagen, she listened to the undulations
of the surrounding landscape. The garden is also reflected in the semi-transparent panes of glass
which provide both privacy and a connection to nature. During the design, Hadid took great care
to reflect the proportions of the original 1918 building and the resulting effect is one of modernity
and elegance.

04 | HER MASTERPIECE | Phaeno Science Centre, Willy-BrandtPlatz 1, Wolfsburg, Germany

The iceberg of architecture, Phaeno Science Centre is stunning and timeless. Few people
can turn concrete, steel and glass into a hypnotic work of architecture, but Zaha Hadid has
certainly accomplished this. The glacial windows and cool white concrete are captivating, but
inside, a soaring latticework ceiling to the gallery and huge concrete columns give the space a
monumental feeling shared by the great cathedrals of Europe. Perhaps this can be seen not as a
church of religion, but a Cathedral of Science.

05 | HER MASTERPIECE | Guangzhou Opera House, 1 Zhujiang

West Road, Tianhe, Guangzhou, China

For decades, opera houses have been great representations of contemporary architectural
style. From Paris to Sydney each one embodies unique elements of their age; the Guangzhou
Opera House is no exception. Like great facets of crystaline rock, the opera house rises from the
urban streets. The sharp, angular glass, steel and concrete hide the rippling interior. Like the hard
wingcase of a beetle hides a tender body, so the exterior hides a soft inside. The glittering light of
the ceiling and the acoustic design, make this site perfect for its purpose as a centre for opera.
From the architect. Like pebbles in a stream smoothed by erosion, the Guangzhou Opera
House sits in perfect harmony with its riverside location. The Opera House is at the heart of
Guangzhous cultural development. Its unique twin-boulder design enhances the city by opening it
to the Pearl River, unifying the adjacent cultural buildings with the towers of international finance
in Guangzhous Zhujiang new town.The 1,800-seat auditorium of the Opera House houses the
very latest acoustic technology, and the smaller 400-seat multifunction hall is designed for
performance art, opera and concerts in the round.

06 | HER MASTERPIECE | Hungerburgbahn, Hhenstrae 145,

Innsbruck, Austria

Hungerburgbahn is a hybrid funicular railway. Each of the four stations on the line were
designed by Zaha Hadid. The Hungerburg station in particular is glorious. Half sprouting fungus,
half enameled icicle, its mountainside location is the perfect site for a cloud-like work of
architecture. There is something ephemeral, yet solid about this building. Its dynamic curving form

along with the glossy white surface are a gift to the world of architecture. It is soft, yet it is hard; it
is swaying and static; it is transient and timeless so many juxtapositions, so beautifully
assembled.

07 | HER MASTERPIECE | Heydar Aliyev Center,1 Heydr liyev

prospekti, Bak, Azerbaijan

One of Hadids most renowned works, the Heydar Aliyev Center is 619,000 square feet of
architectural brilliance. With a large conference hall at its heart and a gallery and museum as well,
this building is an embracing and comfortable site that unites all these aspects together. In 2012,
this curvaceous center rose to fame when it was featured on their stamps, becoming a symbol of
Azerbaijan and winning the Design Museum of the Year award in 2014.

08 | HER MASTERPIECE | MAXXI, Via Guido Reni, 4A, Roma, Italy

MAXXI Natoinal Museum of the 21st Century Arts is a multifaceted space dedicated to
experimentation and innovation in the arts and architecture. In 2010, this building of overlapping
tubular forms won the RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture. Since then the Guardian has declared it
Hadids finest work built to date. The curling tunnels, wide interior avenues and intersecting walk
ways give the building an aesthetic rhythm rarely seen in architecture today.

09 | HER MASTERPIECE | Dongdaemun Design Plaza | Seoul,

South Korea

This powerful, curving structure is now a major landmark in Seoul, South Korea. An
embodiment of Neo-Futurism, in many ways this is a sister to Glasgows Riverside Museum. Both
take on flowing forms with dynamic lines of light and a distinct Hadid style. In contrast to
Riverside, there are no sharp angles in Dongdaemun Design Plaza soft, smooth curves only. At
night, the building is lit up like Hokusais Great Wave, sparkling with pixelated light.

10 | HER MASTERPIECE | Pierresvives, 907 Rue du Professeur

Blayac, Montpellier, France

A building that unifies the archive, library and sports department has to fulfill three identities
in one work of architecture. This accomplishment is one of Hadids great triumphs. The concrete
and geometric qualities of Pierresvives are reassuring aspects for archives and libraries, but the
lunging, projecting forms embody the sports aspect. This is a building that brings together these
disparate purposes and creates a single architectural force establishing itself in the canon of
architecture

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