Zaha Hadid Rules !

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http://www.pritzkerprize.com/2004/
i am so happy about this,

― anthony, Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The site seems not to be working and she's kinda butt.

― LC, Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

what do you mean but

― anthony, Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.pritzkerprize.com/2004/mediakit.htm

― anthony, Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

we need to discuss her genius

― anthony, Saturday, 27 March 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I like her work conceptually and I love the renderings. I'm sure that a walkthrough of her spaces would be fantastic. However, I'm converned about the way her buildings look in the context of surrounding areas. There's something very sci-fi about them and I'd love to see them as moonbases or in other solitary settings - but I am concerned about how that Rome building is going to affect the neighborhood...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 27 March 2004 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

She's the one who did the sets for the Pet Shop Boys' Nightlife tour a few years back, right? Nice, that.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

she rules? i think she's a pretentious fool. tell me one good thing about her stuff.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

its techincally marvelous, and theortically interesting, she is alos one of the most concerend with beauty, her buildings are lovely and spiky and spiny and complex...as for spaces, it v. much takes care of space, for example how the CCAC is recessed from the street, providing a subtle varrition of street scape, or how the cardiff opera house seduced and resettled the hills it was on. (also has a concern with use and audience)

― anthony, Saturday, 27 March 2004 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Zaha Hadid is one amazing lady. She worked for Rem Koolhuis, dresses head to toe in Miyake, and designs her projects on Islamic design principles without banging on about it.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 27 March 2004 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)

tell me about the islamic thing...
also her buidlings look like miyake, and thats not a bad thing.

― anthony, Saturday, 27 March 2004 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

also, her most famous building is the ski jump in Insbruk (sp), which sheds every element of decoration it can, and is the most functional building imaginable.

― anthony, Saturday, 27 March 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

no, thanks.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 27 March 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

i think zaha hadid's architecture is truly inspirational and very futuristic...i have been admiring her work ever since my formative years..i think the pritzker prize is very well deserved.....

― shweta sawhney, Monday, 19 April 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

revive. i want to know why jed thinks she's a pretentious fool.

― ^@^ (map), Friday, 13 October 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ameinfo.com/images/news/3/26603-dancing.jpg

― jelkino (jergins), Friday, 13 October 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh hell.

http://www.ameinfo.com/88718.html

― jelkino (jergins), Friday, 13 October 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

i love her but damn those don't look good. too silly?

― jelkino (jergins), Friday, 13 October 2006 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit, was all ready to come back and admit the truth, which is that i was completely disillusioned with architecture when i posted that zaha was a "pretentious fool" 2 years ago and that my statement said much more about me than it did her. she's certainly no fool - she's very canny. HOWEVER seeing those towers just brings all the bile back to the surface: those things are hideous and stupid. what a cunt.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

she was up for some award a few years ago and it was featured in one of those channel 4 5 minutes after the news thing. it was a firestation and so they got a real fireman to tell them what he thought. he pointed out that acute angles on the main line from the rest area to the place they keep the vehicles is A Bad Idea. and i have to agree.

http://www.0lll.com/lud/pages/architecture/archgallery/hadid_vitra/images/vitra_06.jpg
http://figure-ground.com/travel/image.php?vitra_fire/0028

haha, it's now a chair museum.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

the fire station is one of a series of buildings (along w/ others by "celebrated" architects) that make up the vitra factory/museum complex. vitra make a lot of chairs

it is rubbish, though, yes

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

it may not have worked as a fire station but it doesn't even really look good either.

hello rjg.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

hi jed!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 October 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

so is the prevalent knock on her that her buildings aren't functional?
because i've seen plenty of designs (not including the dancing towers) that don't strike me as any more impractical than tons of others that get built. she built bmw's leipzig plant! surely she's not serially unrealistic?

― ^@^ (map), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't looked at that one very closely but it gave me the impression of being very heavy and rigid and not very much at all like the renderings would suggest.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.arcspace.com/books/Digital_Hadid/4.Hadid.jpg
http://www.bcn.es/publicacions/b_mm/imatges/bmm_62/img_h180/P-072-2.jpg
http://www.artinfo.ru/ru/news/images/Photo-main/zaha_hadid-BMW-Leipzig.jpg
http://images.scotsman.com/2005/01/26/transportmuseum.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Many architects are good at tricking clients with unrealistic renderings and models, but Hadid is absolutely the master.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i think her buildings as autechre eps phase is best kept to museums.

xpost

― ^@^ (map), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

i should change my login name to "Brian Miller OTM".

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

So I want to buy a monograph of her work that especially includes color pictures of her paintings as well as good photography of her major works. Great text is a plus. Any recommendations? I'm mainly asking because I'm not sure I can see the Guggenheim catalogue before buying it and I'm wondering if someone has seen it and can compare it to the other books?

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 26 April 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

I have a recommendation but don't think it'll help much

― RJG, Thursday, 26 April 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, I know your stance on Hadid (and also cars)!

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.rovesite.com/galleries/zcar/img/STRAIGHT_TOP.jpg
http://features.conceptcar.co.uk/british-motorshow-2006/images/zcar-rendering.jpg

thanks for reminding me

― RJG, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

lysol douch.jpg

the reality:

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/images/c5onroad.jpg

much like the buildings, really.

― jed_, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

Haha. Again, I'm most interested in her paintings. Architecture is usually a disappointment.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

Her niece directed me in a play, once.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

I like her buildings. That one on Cincinatti especially.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

the cincinatti one is the only one I like anything about

― RJG, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

cincinnati

― RJG, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder what the computer model of it looked like

― RJG, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

I support anyone whose name sounds like someone laughing.

― braveclub, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

Cincinnati, of course - that's one of those words that looks weirder the longer you look at it. I just ordered WKRP in Cincinnati on DVD as well, so no excuses for my poor spelling

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

She's a bit much for me.

― admrl, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

i just read an article about married architect couples and there was a great quote from denise scott brown (robert venturi's other half and business partner) who was dismayed that it took so long for a woman to get a pritzker. denise was pissed off that robert got his pritzker while she has always been an equally integral part of the venturi scott brown equation.

― get bent, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

So, has anyone seen the guggenheim catalog?

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

not bothered about guggenheim, either

― RJG, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

i saw the guggenheim show and was pretty "eh" about it. i went back later to pick up the catalogue for someone as a gift, but they were out of stock and had a softcover version with ugly shiny pages. i bought another book that i cannot remember the name of, but preferred. i think it was published in 1998. sorry so vague!

― bell_labs, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

that's good actually, thanks!

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

i think the one in the big red plastic box (i think there are three different format books inside the box?) will have just about everything if your willing to pay top dollar.

http://www.amazon.com/Zaha-Hadid-Gordana-Fontana-Giusti/dp/0847826716

― jed_, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

actually four books.

http://www.thameshudson.co.uk/books/Zaha_Hadid/9780500342008.mxs/15/0/

― jed_, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

My goodness, architecture books are always so expensive.

― admrl, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

whenever I see that big plastic box, it's always scratched to fuck

― RJG, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

That is what university libraries are for, if you are not particularly concenred with the GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL mentality of ownership.

― Abbott, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

xpost natch

― Abbott, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

if you are not particularly concenred with the GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL mentality of ownership

This is ILX!

(j/k)

― admrl, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

"whenever I see that big plastic box, it's always scratched to fuck"

i carry sandpaper around in case i see a pristine copy.

― jed_, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

lolo

― RJG, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

So, has anyone seen the guggenheim catalog?

Spencer, I recall that the Hammer's bookstore in Westwood had a copy. I'd give them a call to check first...

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 27 April 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

oooh, thanks for the tip!

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 28 April 2007 09:36 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

R.I.P. :(

http://qz.com/651847/zaha-hadid-the-worlds-only-female-starchitect-has-died-at-65/

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 31 March 2016 18:34 (ten years ago)

Terrible.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 31 March 2016 18:46 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

sigh...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bitter-feud-rages-over-architect-zaha-hadids-67m-will-as-designer-says-hostile-trustees-stopped-him-a4121331.html

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 April 2019 17:09 (six years ago)

Her residential building on the High Line in NYC is striking.

― calstars, Saturday, 27 April 2019 19:23 (six years ago)

Schumacher? Schmuck-er more like, amirite?

― Ned Trifle X, Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:56 (six years ago)

yeah he's terrible

the details of that speech schumacher gave are O_o

her daughter directed me in a play on college. very weird to think anyone in her family could associate w someone like him.

― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 27 April 2019 22:24 (six years ago)

*looks upthread at earlier comment* Daughter or niece? Honest question!

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 April 2019 00:35 (six years ago)

Her residential building on the High Line in NYC is striking.

― calstars, Saturday, April 27, 2019 12:23 PM (five hours ago)

it is. I wonder what it’s like to be in one of the apartments, though, looking out at the surrounding banal high-rises. maybe the interior architecture is enough

― Dan S, Sunday, 28 April 2019 00:42 (six years ago)

I'm curious what the nearby Hudson Residences by Thomas Heatherwick surrounding the High Line will look like when they are finished. I saw them in progress last week

― Dan S, Sunday, 28 April 2019 00:44 (six years ago)

dirty white brick and bulging faceted windows, could be great, could be awful

― Dan S, Sunday, 28 April 2019 00:52 (six years ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/realestate/zaha-hadids-jewel-in-the-crown.html

― calstars, Sunday, 28 April 2019 01:06 (six years ago)

I love the Hadid High Line building but that article doesn't show any of the unusual details or any exterior shots

― Dan S, Sunday, 28 April 2019 02:04 (six years ago)

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