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November 15, 2012

Report card: Zaha Hadid's MAXXI turns out to be a good place to see art. There's a giant, white, habitable sculpture sitting in the midst of Rome's nondescript Flaminio district just north of the city center. Its exterior juxtaposes sinuous curves and sharply angled planes, and its interior flows in smooth, serpentine capaciousness. It's Zaha Hadid's National Museum of XXI Century Arts (better known as MAXXI), and doubtless it's a work of art itself. But museums aren't supposed to be stand-alone masterpieces. They're supposed to display and enhance other works of art to visual and contextual advantage. The 228,000-square-foot MAXXI

Snapshot: Arum

Asad Syrkett

October 16, 2012

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Generally, Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid deals in organic forms more amoebic than botanic.

China Awards 2012: Guangzhou Opera House

Best Public Project: Honor Award

Laura Raskin

July 16, 2012

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The Guangzhou Municipal Government’s brief for a new opera house was ambitious: the building had to be able to host Chinese and Western operas of the highest caliber, as well as be a welcoming civic center, open and accessible to all.

Evelyn Grace Academy

Raising the Bar in Brixton: Winner of the 2011 Stirling Prize, this daring charter school aims to bridge architectural and social divides in a regenerating historic neighborhood.

Christopher Turner

January 16, 2012

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Set back from the road, Zaha Hadid's Evelyn Grace Academy in South London zigzags across its small site with jagged angles of bare concrete, glass, and silver-spray-painted aluminum.

Critics Take Jabs at Zaha's Olympic Stingray

Jan-Carlos Kucharek

July 29, 2011

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With its temporary wings and 3,000 tons of structural steel, Zaha Hadid's Olympic Aquatics Centre opens in London to mixed reviews.

Snapshot: Twirl

Rita Catinella Orrell

June 16, 2011

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Twirl, an installation by Zaha Hadid Architects on display for two weeks during the 50th anniversary of the Milan Furniture Fair in April, was intended to be a contemporary interpretation of the State University of Milan’s 18th-century courtyard.

Clifford A. Pearson

October 16, 2010

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Turn the clock back to 1999 and you find Zaha Hadid and her partner Patrik Schumacher working on a critical set of projects, four of which (including MAXXI) eventually got built and two that never moved off the page or computer screen.

MAXXI/National Museum of XXI Century Arts

MAXXI: Zaha Hadid Taps into Rome's past while creating its most contemporary building in decades.

Clifford A. Pearson

October 16, 2010

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In Rome, history flows through every urban artery, providing a strong pulse to obscure outposts and tourist destinations alike.

Josephine Minutillo

October 16, 2010

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Many museum buildings have incorporated systems that allow daylight to illuminate their galleries, but none as robustly as MAXXI, where almost every roof surface is glazed. To support such a roof above the museum’s winding galleries, whose bays average 40 feet wide, reinforced-concrete walls on either side sandwich a series of trusses. While these trusses run parallel to the gallery walls, transversal steel beams connect the walls. Originally conceived as a precast-concrete element, each of these longitudinal sections, typically six per bay, is composed of a steel truss encased in 1⁄2-inch-thick fiberglass-reinforced concrete panels. The nearly 8-foot-deep assembly, which rises

A Long-Awaited Groundbreaking for Hadid's Broad Museum

John Gallagher

March 9, 2010

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Roughly a year behind its original schedule, the Zaha Hadid-designed Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will break ground on March 16 on the East Lansing campus of Michigan State University. When finished in 2012, it will be the second Hadid-designed building in the United States, after the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects Click on the slide show icon to see additional photos. Related Links: Hadid Tapped for MSU Museum Fire Erupts at Hadid Opera House Hadid Chosen for Vienna Library Hadid First Woman to Win Pritzker The

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