What would Pope Urban VIII have made of Maxxi, the new museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid on the outskirts of Rome’s historic quarter? My guess is that he would have been ecstatic. This 17th-century pope, one of the most prominent cultural patrons in Roman history, understood that great cities are not frozen in time. He loved dreaming up lavish new projects over breakfast with...
The Maxxi Contemporary Arts Center, which was completed by London-based Zaha Hadid Architects last week, will open to the public after all collections have been moved in.
Taschen just released a beautiful book showcasing the work of Baghdad-bred, London-based architect Zaha Hadid, a rad (pun intended) woman who, several times over her thirty-year career, has achieved...
Zaha Hadid is meeting the Pope this week - apparently he wants to revitalise religious art and architecture - and it will be one of the stranger celebrity encounters. London Evening Standard
A list of the 500 'most influential' Muslims in the world has left me confused, and not just because my name isn't there I was in Cairo International Airport earlier this week, scrolling through Facebook to see what my friends were up to, when I saw Shahed Amanullah had updated his status to say he was one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world. I followed his link (pdf) to see who or what...
Zaha Hadid is known for her futuristic projects and for her numerous international competition awards. Her newest design is striking in terms of resources and scales. The National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, or the MAXXI Museum has recently been opened for the public in Rome, a city most know for its ancient values, [...] This is a post from the Freshome Magazine , who bring you the latest news...
-- Unveiling: Reviews are coming in for architect Zaha Hadid's National Museum of the XXI Century Arts in Rome, even though it is not quite finished. (Times Online) -- Legally binding: A Texas jury has upheld the final will of...
Photos by Eljor Kerciku The new National Museum of the XXI Century Arts (MAXXI) in Rome. It may take the nation that invented Fellini to truly embrace Zaha Hadid, the whirlwind architect who is by turns sugar and spitfire. Italians stress the “z” in “Zaha” as they do in “czarina,” and treated her like one during last weekend’s opening festivities for the National...
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"There have been at least six changes of national government in Italy since the [museum] was first announced in 1998, from left to centre to right, and the future of many such public projects has often seemed doubtful. But now here it stands ... almost exactly as [Zaha] Hadid and her team first imagined it."...
Unfortunately I won’t have a chance to see this show, but I had the chance to contribute a brief piece on Archizoom’s “Structure for Leisure in Prato–Permanent Luna Park in a Shopping Centre” to the catalogue for First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s , now on display the AA. The show explores the first projects that architects of that...
Few outlines of the Manchester International Festival 2009 The line-up sees spectacular and one-off events including music from Kraftwerk, Elbow, De La Soul and Antony and the Johnsons, singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright’s debut opera, an epic group show by Marina Abramović, dance by Carlos Acosta, mind-blowing work by Zaha Hadid and a daring walk-through production with original music by Damon Albarn.
Zaha Hadid designed the Moon sofa in 2007 for B & B Italia is surprisingly organic and tormented ,a continuous form which combines aesthetics and ergonomic features. A single shape which contains the back, the seating, and the armrests as if “sculpted” from a single block.
Roberto Casiraghi, the director of R.O.M.A. Road to contemporary art, wanted to respond to these requirements within this event. R.O.M.A is the first art exhibition dedicated to contemporary art organised in Rome from the 28th February to the 2nd March 2009 with the participation of more than 80 Italian and foreign galleries.
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