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ZAHA HADID 1950-2016 Architect
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UK-‐ based Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed the following images of its designs for the King Abdullah Financial District Metro StaOon, which will serve as a key interchange on the Riyadh Metro.
مترو الرياض جزء من مشروع الملك عبد االله للنقل العام بمدينة الرياض, حيث سيتم انشاء ستة خطوط مترو رئيسية تخترق عاصمة السعودية
الرياض من جميع الاتجاهات
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1950-‐2016 Zaha Hadid. YBSC COMMUNICATION
rend hommage à une grande architecte du XXIe siècle avec laquelle nous avons pris grand plaisir à collaborer ces dernières années.
Zaha Hadid, founding partner of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 and is interna @ onally known for her built, theore @ cal and academic work. Each of her dynamic and innova @ ve projects builds on over thirty years of revolu @ onary experimenta @ on and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design. Working with senior office partner Patrik
Schumacher, Hadid’ s interest is in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape, and
geology as the prac @ ce integrates natural
topography and human-‐ made systems that lead to experimenta @ on with cu \ ng-‐ edge technologies.
Such a process oJen results in unexpected and dynamic architectural forms. The MAXXI: Na @ onal Museum of 21st Century Art
in Rome, BMW Central Building in Leipzig and Guangzhou Opera House are excellent
demonstra @ ons of the prac @ ce’ s quest for complex, dynamic space. Currently, the prac @ ce is working on a mul @ tude of projects including; the KAPSARC Research Centre in Riyadh, the Aqua @ cs Centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games, High-‐ Speed Train
Sta @ ons in Naples and Durango, the CMA CGM Head Office tower in Marseille and urban master-‐ plans in Cairo, Istanbul, China, Singapore and the Middle East. Zaha Hadid Architects con @ nues to be a global leader in pioneering research and design
inves @ ga @ on. Collabora @ ons with ar @ sts, designers, engineers and clients that lead their industries have advanced the prac @ ce’ s diversity and knowledge, whilst the implementa @ on of state-‐ of-‐ the-‐ art technologies have aided the realiza @ on of fluid,
dynamic and therefore complex architectural structures.