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...that period would come some of the thinking that, as it turns out, has transformed the built world over the past decade or so. Daniel Libeskind was once mostly a paper architect. So was Zaha Hadid. But it was a moment that didn't sit well with the partners who would come together as SHoP in 1996. "Theorizing about buildings had become more important than building them," says Coren Sharples. "If you actually built, you were selling out. It was very disheartening." Adds Pasquarelli: "There were the guardians of culture, and there were the architects who just served clients. There...
...Perhaps the cleanest fusion of technology and artistic intent at the Phaeno - apart from the Zaha Hadid?designed building itself, which is a triumph of experimental construction techniques and design aesthetics - is to be found in the 18 pieces brought by Arthur Ganson from his workshop at MIT in Boston. Ganson creates machines that are exquisitely engineered from low-tech materials to "express a feeling or a thought or a question." A wishbone hauling its own dream machine across the floor may not have a clear meaning, but that takes second place, he says, to "communicating the intensity and patience...
HONG KONG Mobile Art The buzz has already begun on Zaha Hadid's collapsible capsule designed for Chanel to house a traveling exhibit of contemporary art. But fans will have to wait until January...
Drop in on BMW's Leipzig plant, and you can see what he means. It's the firm's newest, having opened just two years ago, with a luminous open-plan central building that houses white-collar workers and managers. It was designed by London-based architect Zaha Hadid, and its most striking feature is a conveyor belt that meanders inside the building just below roof level, carrying a steady stream of cars from the body shop to the paint shop. You can see it from almost everywhere in the building, including the cafeteria...
Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture (Thames & Hudson) Jane Alison, curator of London's Barbican Art Gallery, and her fellow authors explore works by architects Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and other urban-planning innovators...