Zaha Hadid: The Opus

The queen of archi­tec­ture (as one of our vis­i­tors dubbed her), is at it again. This time in the form of a com­mer­cial & retail devel­op­ment in the Busi­ness Bay dis­trict of Dubai (UAE), revealed on the 22^nd of May, 2007, by Omniyat Prop­er­ties and Zaha Hadid Architects.

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Zaha’s sig­na­ture decon­struc­tivist design is obvi­ous from all angles. The exte­rior has the shape of a cube, from which a big piece has been carved out; the open­ing goes all the way, through the core of the struc­ture, until it reaches the other end of the build­ing. It will cre­ate a sort of frame through which you will be able to appre­ci­ate Dubai’s sky­line in an inter­est­ing way, she says.

As usual in Zaha’s build­ings, the shapes of the inte­rior spaces blur the line between struc­ture and func­tion­al­ity. The ceil­ings, floors and walls’ shapes flu­idly extend into usable seat­ing, work­ing and gen­eral liv­ing envi­ron­ments. The Inte­rior, in a way, seems taken out of what I would call “a futur­is­tic sci­ence fic­tion movie, like none we’ve ever seen before; per­haps one directed by Tim Bur­ton? As usual, every­where you see the clean lines that define Hadid’s inde­fin­able shapes. This women doesn’t cease to amaze me.

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