Tag: Zaha Hadid

Iraqi Zaha Hadid’s legacy reinvented in Saudi Arabia’s clay-rooted museum?

She was the first woman and first Muslim to win a Pritzker Prize and was notorious for blowing through budgets, with no concern for environmental issues. Her clients did not find this problematic. Has the Zaha Hadad brand become penitent in its latest project?

Trojena’s $500 billion ski resort for a planet on fire

Saudi Arabia has “won” the bid to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games at what will be called its Trojena resort

Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid dead at 65

Zaha Hadid, the first female architect (and first Muslim) to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize, died yesterday in a Miami...

Iraq-born Zaha Hadid’s new towers on former radiation zone in Australia

Just about every week UK-based and Iraq-born architect Zaha Hadid unveils new plans for eloquent but often outrageous skyscrapers...

Zaha Hadid modernizes Islamic design with winning Heydar Aliyev in Azerbaijan

The London Design Museum bestowed upon Zaha Hadid the prestigious Design of the Year award for this incredible Heydar Aliyev Center in Azerbaijan, and...

Opus Tower: Zaha Hadid’s latest luxury composition in Dubai

We'd love to tell you that the Middle East's most famous contemporary architect is doing great green things for the region,...

Qatar axes four of 12 solar-powered World Cup 2022 stadiums

Qatar plans to spend roughly $200 billion to prepare for the hundreds of thousands of fans who are expected...

FIFA official publicly rules out a Qatar summer World Cup

Three years ago, Qatar won the right to be the first Middle Eastern country to host a World Cup...

Comparing Qatar Stadium to a Vagina is “Ridiculous” Says Zaha Hadid

I never thought that I would agree with Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi starchitect who has failed time and again...

5 Steps to a Carbon Neutral World Cup in Qatar

Qatar has promised a carbon neutral 2022 World Cup, but we know from the Masdar City experiment how hard...

Zaha Hadid’s 2020 Olympic Stadium Thwarted by Japanese Peers

A consortium of Japanese architects got together to protest Zaha Hadid's winning design for the main stadium of the 2020...

Zaha Hadid Greens Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic Stadium Design

Japan has won the bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and Zaha Hadid has been picked...