Invited as one of five pre-selected architect led teams, Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) was awarded first prize in an open international design competition which included 19 entrants amongst others Lord Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid.
The new National Library in Astana, named after the first President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, encompasses an estimated 33,000 sq m.
BIG’s design merges four forms – a circle, a rotunda, an arch and a yurt – into an ‘infinite loop’ with a single double-looping surface plane covering the entire building.
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Rafael López de Heredia Tondonia Winery is one of the oldest and more famous winery in the Spanish region of La Rioja. To celebrate their 125th anniversary they decided to rehabilitate a very old store that the winery founder took to Brussel’s World Fair in 1910 and had been disassembled ever since.
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Zaha Hadid Architects recently unveiled a new project in Beijing: Chaoyangmen Soho. The prestigous project will be a large residential and commercial structure.
From Zaha Hadid:
‘Soho City is the attempt to invent a new city nucleus on the south-east corner of the Fourth Ring, taking up the opportunity afforded by the new exhibition center planned there on the land of the Beijing Logistic Port. The urbanistic premise of this venture is that Beijing – despite its overarching concentric geometry – can only develop its vitality as a polycentric metropolis. Soho City will not add to the patchwork of urban dormitories that threaten to suffocate Beijings’s metropolitan potential.
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Zaha Hadid Architects recently completed their chamber music hall within Manchester Art Gallery for the duration of the Manchester International Festival 2009. The architects have created a chamber music hall for solo performances of Johann Sebastian Bach’s chamber music masterpieces. The project’s form, a suspended ribbon of translucent lightweight synthetic fabric (150 g/m2) articulated by an internal steel structure, translates the intricate relationships of Bach’s harmonies into an architectural spatial condition.
Festival Director Alex Poots exclaimed, ‘Zaha Hadid Architects consistently come up with challenging and innovative ideas. It has been wonderful to see the realization of this project and experience such intimate performances from the leading concert musicians within it.’
The concert series in the new chamber music hall will run until Sat, July 18. Daytime entry to the installation is free. It will be open for viewing July 4 – Aug 31, Tue – Sun (and Bank Holiday Mon) 10am – 5pm.
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In April 2009, London-based Zaha Hadid and Amsterdam-based Ben van Berkel of UNStudio have designed architectural exhibits to be installed in Millennium Park this summer to honor the forward-looking spirit of the Plan of Chicago. They emphasize the importance of boldly imagining a better future for all, as Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett did in 1909 by making bold plans and big dreams in their Plan of Chicago.
The two pavilions are the centerpiece of this year’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Plan of Chicago, also called the Burnham Plan after its main author, Daniel Burnham.
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Zaha Hadid Architects have won a competition to design Cairo Expo City in Cairo, Egypt.
After presenting the design to Egyptian Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Zaha Hadid Architects was announced as architects of the new Cairo Expo City. Zaha Hadid Architects will be designing Cairo Expo City together with global multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold.
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In April 2008, Zaha Hadid architects have won a competition to design the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The competition was part of a feasibility study by the Guggenheim Foundation and the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, Russia.
Architects Daniel Libeskind and Massimiliano Fuksas also submitted proposals.
All three submissions have been on display at the exhibition Imagining the Future: Design Proposals for a New Museum in Vilnius at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius.
The museum is scheduled to open in 2011.
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