When the gigantic tower rises, each of its sides rotate 45 degrees as if dancing with each other, and the pivoting design on both sides creates raised openings that allow natural light to flood the interior space.
On May 31, 2017 Google marked her achievements with a doodle in front of the Antwerp harbor extension designed by Zaha Hadid. His architectural design firm Zaha Hadid Architects employs 400 people and is based in a former Victorian school in Clerkenwell, London.
Early years and career Hadid began her studies at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, where she received her BA in mathematics, travelled to London to study at the Architectural Association in 1972, an important center for progressive architectural thought in the 1970s, with whom he will work as a partner in the Metropolitan Architecture Office.
Zaha Hadid Architects was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 and is internationally renowned for her architectural, theoretical and academic work and a BA in Mathematics from the American University of Beirut. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics in college and joined the School of Architecture of the Architectural Association in 1972.
Hadid wanted an alternative to traditional architectural drawing and influenced by Suprematism and the Russian avant-garde, adopted painting as a design tool and abstraction as a research principle to “re-examine the failed and untested experiments of modernism […. ] to open up new areas of construction”. His father was a London-educated industrialist who led a progressive party that promoted secularism and democracy in Iraq.
Hadid continued to create bold and experimental designs for the Millennium Dome exhibition spaces in London and for the Serpentine Gallery annual summer pavilion in Innsbruck, donating a new attraction to the Austrian National Gallery with the iconic Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts.
In 2010, Hadids’ daring creative design for the MAXXI Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture in Rome was awarded the Stirling Prize for Best British architect building built in the last year – the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). When the architect CBE died in March 2016, he left a pioneering legacy spanning decades of award-winning architecture around the world.
In the five years since the death of Zaha Hadids, much has been written about the glorious and impressive legacy of the legendary British-Iraqi architect. Hadid was born in Baghdad in 1950, the Queen of the Curves, has radically reshaped the shapes of modern architecture and design and broke gender stereotypes by becoming the first woman in 2004 to receive the Pritzker Prize, the highest honour in her field.
The architect who became a woman in 2012, was unmarried and had no children and left to a trust her international design business, which accounts for most of her fortune, Zaha Hadid a fortune of 67 million pounds according to her will.
