Spiral tower zaha hadid death

  • British architect Zaha Hadid has died aged 65, following a sudden heart attack.
  • Zaha Hadid, the celebrated Iraqi-British architect, has died of a heart attack at a Miami hospital, the BBC first reported.
  • Dame Zaha Hadid, the world-renowned architect, whose designs include the Glasgow's Riverside Museum, has died aged 65.

    • •

    20 of Zaha Hadid's Most Iconic Buildings

    Zaha Hadid (1950 - 2016) was a world-renowned architect. She won several awards and was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Prize. Hadid who always had an avant-garde design style believed every planerat arbete should have a strong idea and she let architecture loose with its sweeping fluid shapes full of meaning. Hadid's buildings are a reminder of a remarkable life's work. Listed below are only 20 of many outstanding Zaha Hadid buildings. They are ordered by the building's completion date.

    Vitra Fire hållplats (1993)

    In 1993, Zaha Hadid designed a small fire station for the German city of Weil am Rhein. It was one of Hadid's first realized projects. Its design, made of exposed raw concrete and glass, featured sloping and oblique surfaces, skarp diagonal shapes intersecting towards the center. Once completed, it never served as a fire station, as the government requirements on a fire station were changed. It was later used as a museum exhib

  • spiral tower zaha hadid death

    • •

    Zaha Hadid’s Bergisel Schanze ski jump in Innsbruck, Austria (photo by Ralf Roletschek, via Wikimedia Commons)

    Zaha Hadid, the celebrated Iraqi-British architect, has died of a heart attack at a Miami hospital, the BBC first reported. She was being treated for bronchitis at the time of the fatal heart attack. A statement on her website confirmed that she had died early this morning. She was 65.

    Zaha Hadid (photo by Simone Cecchetti, via Flickr)

    Hadid, who was born in Baghdad and was based in London, is known for her distinctive and futuristic buildings, which are characterized by clean, swooping, and dramatic lines. Her first completed project to formalize what would become her signature aesthetic, appropriately, was a ski jump in Austria. Since then she has created increasingly dramatic buildings the world over, from a BMW manufacturing facility in Leipzig and the zig-zagging Guangzhou Opera House to the plunging Aquatics Centre for the 2012 London Olympic and

    •

    A portrait of architect Zaha Hadid in the main lobby of the One Thousand Museum building in Miami on Wednesday Photo: AFP

    In the heart of Miami, among the towering skyscrapers that rise above Biscayne Bay, the eye-catching new luxury condo building by late star architect Zaha Hadid dominates the skyline.

    The unique curved "exoskeleton" design of the One Thousand Museum building has created buzz. The futuristic structure is the only residential space in downtown Miami with a helipad.

    The high-rise also honors the legacy of the Iraqi-British architect, who died in Miami in 2016 at age 65, when the 62-story tower was built up to about the eighth floor.

    "We felt a big obligation to make sure we got this particular project right because Miami was her second home," said Chris Lepine, who took over as director of the $300 million project after her death.

    "She spent a lot of time here, had a lot of friends."

    Hadid - sometimes dubbed "Queen of the Curve" for her love of the form - was