91-475: McEvedy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Allegra McEvedy (born 1970), English chef, broadcaster and writer Colin McEvedy (1930–2005), English writer, historian, psychiatrist and cartographer Pat McEvedy (1880–1935), New Zealand rugby union player See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
182-470: A "sculpture-like overbuilding" of the historic Stadtbahn railway, was designed by Hadid's practice ZHA . Hadid, together with British architectural artist Brian Clarke , developed an unexecuted collaborative proposal for the project that incorporated integral artworks by Clarke as part of the Neo-Futurist structures, with interrelated glass mosaic and traditionally-leaded stained glass forming part of
273-511: A building that seems to suck the surrounding landscape into a vortex of movement and swirling space... appears both as alien object in a landscape of incomprehensible vastness (and often overwhelming banality), and as an extrusion of the peculiar nature of this landscape." Nicolai Ourousoff, architecture critic of the New York Times , wrote that "stepping into the main hall is like entering the soft insides of an oyster...The concave ceiling
364-990: A community restaurant in Notting Hill, and later as Head Chef of The Good Cook in Kensington High Street . In summer 2000 she set up the first outdoor café in the Zaha Hadid Pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery . Between 2002 and 2004, she was the inaugural Chef in Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts . McEvedy opened Blackfoot, a pork-focused restaurant in Exmouth Market , London, in December 2013; it remained open until February 2016. McEvedy co-founded Leon ,
455-536: A cross between a bridge and a tower, which by its form gives a sense of movement and speed. At the end of the 1990s, her career began to gather momentum, as she won commissions for two museums and a large industrial building. She competed against Rem Koolhaas and other well-known architects for the design of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati , Ohio (1997–2003). She won, and became
546-620: A design museum at the Vitra factory in Weil-am-Rhein . In 1993, he invited Hadid to design a small fire station for the factory. Her design, made of raw concrete and glass, was a sculptural work composed of sharp diagonal forms colliding together in the centre. The design plans appeared in architecture magazines before construction. When completed, it only served as a fire station for a short period of time, as Weil am Rhein soon opened their own fire station. It became an exhibit space instead, and
637-554: A field also occupied by other top architects including Norman Foster and Santiago Calatrava . Between 2005 and 2008, she designed and built the Bridge-Pavilion of Zaragoza , which was both an exhibit hall and a bridge, created for Expo 2008 , an event on the themes of water and durable development. The concrete bridge span on which the pavilion rests is 85 metres long, as measured from the Exposition site to an island in
728-698: A five-metre wide passage to the old museum. There are no right angles – only diagonals – in the concrete shell of the museum. The floor-to-ceiling glass walls of the gallery make the garden the backdrop of the exhibits. In 2004, she won the Pritzker Architecture Prize , the most prestigious award in architecture, though she had only completed four buildings – the Vitra Fire Station, the Ski Lift in Innsbruck Austria,
819-831: A healthy fast-food restaurant group, with Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent. Leon opened its first outlet in Carnaby Street in 2004. Six months after opening, Leon was named the "Best New Restaurant in Great Britain" at the Observer Food Monthly Awards. In March 2009 McEvedy gave up her role at Leon to focus on writing and television work, but she remains a shareholder in the business. McEvedy published her first book, The Good Cook ( Hodder ) in 2000, and in October 2006 published her second, Allegra McEvedy's Colour Cookbook ( Kyle Cathie ). It won
910-767: A heart attack at the age of 65 at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami , where she was being treated for bronchitis . The statement issued by her London-based design studio announcing her death read, "Zaha Hadid was widely regarded to be the greatest female architect in the world today". She is buried between her father Mohammed Hadid and brother Foulath Hadid in Brookwood Cemetery in Brookwood, Surrey , England. In her will she left £67m, bequeathing various amounts to her business partner and family members. Her international design businesses, which accounted for
1001-496: A height of 74 metres. Hadid wrote that "its fluid form emerges from the folds of the natural topography of the landscape and envelops the different functions of the centre", though the building when completed was largely surrounded by Soviet-era apartment blocks. Peter Cook in Architectural Review called it "a white vision, outrageously total, arrogantly complete ... a unique object that confounds and contradicts
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#17327808344621092-525: A museum of design, conference rooms and other common facilities, as well as the bureaux and a marketplace for designers which is open 24 hours a day. The main building is 280 metres long with seven levels, including three levels underground. The smooth-skinned, giant mushroom-like structure floating atop sloping pylons is made of concrete, aluminium, steel and stone on the exterior, and finished inside with plaster reinforced with synthetic fibre, acoustic tiles, acrylic resin, and stainless steel and polished stone on
1183-414: A museum. No straight line was used in the project of the complex. The shape of the building is wave-like and the overall view is unique and harmonic. Such an architectural structure stands for post-modernist architecture and forms oceanic feeling. The lines of the building symbolise the merging of past and future. While the building itself was widely praised, Dame Zaha was criticized in many circles when she
1274-515: A new modern architecture style through her extremely detailed and professional "superfluid" sketches. At the time people were focused on postmodernism designs, so her designs were a different approach to architecture that set her apart from other designers. She then began her career teaching architecture, first at the Architectural Association, then, over the years at Harvard Graduate School of Design , Cambridge University ,
1365-462: A new precinct so that it sits at the heart of an urban extension of the city, creating community-based activities in and around the stadium on non-event days.” According to the designers, it was inspired by the sails of traditional Dhow boats, used by pearl divers from the region, weaving through currents of the Persian Gulf . The Scorpion Tower of Miami, now known as One Thousand Museum ,
1456-601: A plan for an opera house in Cardiff , Wales, (1994). The Cardiff experience was particularly discouraging; her design was chosen as the best by the competition jury, but the Millennium Commission , acting as funding body, refused to pay for it, and the commission was given to a different and less ambitious architect. Hadid's response to the decision was to ask "Do they want nothing but mediocrity?". Her reputation in this period rested largely upon her teaching and
1547-569: A research center, a computer center, a conference center, a library and the Musalla, a place for prayer. Al-Janoub Stadium is a retractable-roof football stadium in Al-Wakrah , Qatar that was inaugurated on 16 May 2019. This was the second of the eight stadiums inaugurated for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar . Zaha Hadid Architects stated that “The stadium was designed in conjunction with
1638-532: A scene of the 2016 Batman vs. Superman movie. Many of Hadid's later major works are found in Asia. The Galaxy SOHO in Beijing, China (2008–2012) is a combination of offices and a commercial centre in the heart of Beijing with a total of 332,857 square metres, composed of four different ovoid glass-capped buildings joined by multiple curving passageways on different levels. Hadid explained, "the interior spaces follow
1729-422: A series of levels and floors which seem to cascade, sheltered by tilting concrete beams and a roof supported by steel beams in the shape of an 'H'. The open interior inside was intended, she wrote, to avoid "the traditional segregation of working groups" and to show the "global transparence of the internal organisation" of the enterprise, and wrote that she had given particular attention to the parking lot in front of
1820-530: A ship-like structure of glass and steel on a white concrete perch, seems to have landed atop the old port building constructed in 1922. The faceted glass structure also resembles a diamond, a symbol of Antwerp's role as the major market of diamonds in Europe. It was one of the last works of Hadid, who died in 2016, the year it opened. The square in front of the building was renamed to Zaha Hadidplein (Zaha Hadidsquare) to honor her death. On 31 March 2016, Hadid died of
1911-560: A single cube which appears to hover above the ground, eroded by a fluid void. The Mercury Tower is the tallest building in Malta. The Tower is 122 metres (400 ft) tall, with 32 floors of mixed residential and hotel space. The most iconic feature of the building is the twisted area between levels 9 and 11 that provide its distinctive appearance. This development is one of the last concept designs signed off by Zaha Hadid personally before her death in 2016. The "Masaryčka Connects" project
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#17327808344622002-521: Is a synthesis of two distinct parts – the 19th century classical brick structure named The Magazine (a former gunpowder store), and a 21st-century tensile structure. This is the second art space (after the MAXXI Museum in Rome) where Zaha Hadid Architects worked on the melding of both old and new elements. Zaha Hadid's Magazine extension on the original Grade II building was aided by the reinstatement of
2093-701: Is currently headed by Joseph Bahout The Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre are two skyscrapers in Nanjing , Jiangsu, China. Tower 1 is 314.5 metres (1,032 ft) tall and Tower 2 is 255 metres (837 ft). Construction began in 2012 and ended in 2015. Of all her works, Hadid designed only one government building, the Port Authority Building , or Havenhuis, in Antwerp , Belgium , completed in 2016. Most new government buildings attempt to express solidity and seriousness, but Port Authority,
2184-542: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Allegra McEvedy Allegra Sarah Bazzett McEvedy MBE (born 23 November 1970) is an English chef , broadcaster and writer. McEvedy was born and raised in Hammersmith . Interviewed by The New York Times , she said, "Mine was all about what we’d had for breakfast and the great ice cream we had in Florence that afternoon." Her father Colin McEvedy
2275-420: Is his son." The former Soviet secret police general ruled for 30 years, first as its Communist leader and then as its president. Amnesty International accused him of human rights abuses, balloting irregularities and intimidating the opposition while in power. Several architecture critics who admired the work itself felt that Dame Zaha should have raised questions about this repressive leader even as she accepted
2366-428: Is located in a new business district of the city, with a new 103-storey glass tower behind it. It covers 70,000 square metres and was built at cost of US$ 300 million. The complex comprises an 1,800-seat theatre, a multipurpose theatre, entry hall, and salon. A covered pathway with restaurants and shops separates the two main structures. This building, like several of her later buildings, was inspired by natural earth forms;
2457-656: Is now on display with the works of Gehry and other well-known architects. It was the launching pad of her architectural career. Hadid designed a public housing estate in Berlin (1986–1993) and organised an exhibition, "The Great Utopia" (1992), at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Her next major project was a ski jump at Bergisel, in Innsbruck Austria. The old ski jump, built in 1926, had been used in
2548-525: Is of flow and movement and it resembles a demented piece of transport architecture. Inside, black steel stairs and bridges, their undersides glowing with white light, fly across a void. They take you off to the galleries, which are themselves works of frozen motion. The design is intended to generate what Hadid called "confluence, interference and turbulence", In 2002 Hadid won an international competition for her first project in China. The Guangzhou Opera House
2639-407: Is pierced by thousands of little lights—it looks like you're sitting under the dome of a clear night sky." Ourousoff noted that the finished building had construction problems: many of the granite tiles on the exterior had to be replaced, and the plaster and other interior work was poorly done by the inexperienced workers, but he praised Hadid's ability "to convey a sense of bodies in motion" and called
2730-410: Is the second building Hadid designed for the major Chinese property developer, located half-way between the centre of Beijing and the airport. The towers slope and curve; Hadid compared them to Chinese fans, "whose volumes turn one around the other in a complex ballet." The tallest building is 200 metres high, with two levels of shops and 37 levels of offices. A single atrium level three storeys high joins
2821-479: The 2012 Summer Olympics in London as "inspired by the fluid geometry of water in movement". The building covers three swimming pools, and seats 17,500 spectators at the two main pools. The roof, made of steel and aluminium and covered with wood on the inside, rests on just three supports; it is in the form of a parabolic arch that dips in the centre, with the two pools at either end. The seats are placed in bays beside
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2912-569: The American University of Beirut before moving, in 1972, to London to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture . There she studied with Rem Koolhaas , Elia Zenghelis and Bernard Tschumi . Her former professor, Koolhaas, described her at graduation as "a planet in her own orbit." Zenghelis described her as the most outstanding pupil he ever taught. 'We called her the inventor of
3003-683: The Office for Metropolitan Architecture , in Rotterdam , the Netherlands. Through her association with Koolhaas, she met the architectural engineer Peter Rice , who gave her support and encouragement during the early stages of her career. Hadid became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom. She opened her own architectural firm, Zaha Hadid Architects , in London in 1980. During the early 1980s, Hadid's style introduced audiences to
3094-559: The Russian avant-garde , Hadid adopted painting as a design tool and abstraction as an investigative principle to "reinvestigate the aborted and untested experiments of Modernism [...] to unveil new fields of building". She was described by The Guardian as the "Queen of Curves", who "liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity". Her major works include the London Aquatics Centre for
3185-819: The Tabernacle in Notting Hill , Green's, The Belvedere in Holland Park , Alfred's, the Groucho Club and The River Café . She obtained her first Head Chef position at Tom Conran's restaurant The Cow, in Notting Hill, at the age of 24. During a spell in the United States, facilitated by being awarded a special visa as 'an alien with extraordinary ability in the culinary arts', McEvedy worked at Rubicon and Jardinière in San Francisco , and ran
3276-647: The University of Chicago , the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, the University of Illinois at Chicago , and Columbia University . She earned her early reputation with her lecturing and colourful and radical early designs and projects, which were widely published in architectural journals but remained largely unbuilt. Her ambitious but unbuilt projects included a plan for Peak in Hong Kong (1983), and
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3458-433: The 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics. The new structure was to contain not only a ski jump, but also a cafe with 150 seats offering a 360-degree view of the mountains. Hadid had to fight against traditionalists and against time; the project had to be completed in one year, before the next international competition. Her design is 48 metres high and rests on a base seven metres by seven metres. She described it as "an organic hybrid",
3549-547: The 2012 Olympics, the Broad Art Museum , Rome's MAXXI Museum , and the Guangzhou Opera House . Some of her awards have been presented posthumously, including the statuette for the 2017 Brit Awards . With several awards and accolades to her name, she has also been recognized by the 2013 Forbes List as one of the "World's Most Powerful Women" Several of her buildings were still under construction at
3640-429: The 89 degrees. Nothing was ever at 90 degrees. She had spectacular vision. All the buildings were exploding into tiny little pieces." He recalled that she was less interested in details, such as staircases. "The way she drew a staircase you would smash your head against the ceiling, and the space was reducing and reducing, and you would end up in the upper corner of the ceiling. She couldn't care about tiny details. Her mind
3731-662: The Car Park and Terminus Hoenheim North in France, and the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati. In making the announcement, Thomas Pritzker , the head of the jury, announced: "Although her body of work is relatively small, she has achieved great acclaim and her energy and ideas show even greater promise for the future." Between 1997 and 2010, Hadid ventured into the engineers' domain of bridge construction,
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3822-549: The Ebro River. The bridge carries or is attached to four tunnel-like exhibition spaces she termed "pods", which spread onto the island, for a total length of 275 metres. The pods are covered with a skin of 26,000 triangular shingles, many of which open to let in air and light. The bridge-pavilion, characteristic of her designs and buildings of the period, is composed entirely of diagonal slopes and curves, with no right-angles of orthogonal forms. By its curving shape and low profile,
3913-583: The International Association of Culinary Professionals 2007 Cookbook award in the Chefs and Restaurants category. In October 2008 her third book, Leon: Ingredients & Recipes (Conran Octopus); Giles Coren of The Times said it was "Without doubt, the coolest food book I have ever seen." McEvedy was the Chef in Residence at The Guardian starting 2007. However, her last article there
4004-587: The Tate in London and press coverage of her work began to not only get her name out into the architecture world, but allowed people to associate a particular style of architecture with Hadid. One of her first clients was Rolf Fehlbaum , the president-director general of the Swiss furniture firm Vitra , and later, from 2004 to 2010, a member of the jury for the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize . In 1989, Fehlbaum had invited Frank Gehry , then little-known, to build
4095-511: The UAE. Traffic on the bridge commenced three days following the opening ceremony. The National Museum of Arts of the 21st Century ( MAXXI for short), in Rome, was designed and built between 1998 and 2010. The main theme of its architecture is the sense of movement; Everything in the structure seems to be moving and flowing. Hadid took inspiration from the surrounding orthogonal site grids to determine
4186-640: The Zaha Hadid Building, is located in New York City . Designed by the architect Zaha Hadid, the building was her only residential building in New York and one of her last projects before her death. Research and Office Complex was designed by Zaha Hadid. Hadid received the commission after a 2009 design competition. It opened in October 2017 and received a LEED Platinum certification. The complex consists of five interlocking buildings,
4277-534: The architect herself referred to it as the "two pebbles". It appears akin to two giant smooth-edged boulders faced with 75,000 panels of polished granite and glass. Edwin Heathcote, writing for the Financial Times , noted Hadid's concentration on how her design could transform the urban landscape of Guangzhou, as the building rose as the centre of the new business area. He wrote in 2011 that Hadid "produced
4368-681: The bridge-pavilion fits smoothly into the grassy landscape along the river. Between 1997 and 2010, she constructed a much more ambitious bridge, the Sheikh Zayed Bridge, which honors Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan , between the island of Abu Dhabi and the mainland of Abu Dhabi , as well as to the Abu Dhabi International Airport . Both the design of the bridge and the lighting, consisting of gradually changing colours, were designed to give
4459-542: The building "a Chinese gem that elevates its setting." The Riverside Museum (2004–2011), on the banks of the River Clyde Glasgow , Scotland, houses the Glasgow Museum of Transport . Hadid described the 10,000-square metre building, with 7,000 square metres of gallery space, as "a wave", "folds in movement", and "a shed in the form of a tunnel, open at the extreme ends, one end toward the city and
4550-407: The building contains a cafe, a shop, or a museum entrance. The tilting columns reach up through the building and also support the roof. The museum structure resembles an enormous ship, with sloping walls and asymmetric scatterings of windows, and the interior, with its angular columns and exposed steel roof framework, gives the illusion of being inside a working vessel or laboratory. In 2002, she won
4641-462: The building to an historic arrangement as a free-standing pavilion within an enclosure, with the former courtyards covered. The North Gallery extension features Hadid's distinct hallmark of curves, and houses a series of skylights which welcome natural light into the space as well as retractable blinds when less light is needed. Hadid also worked in collaboration with architect and heritage specialist Liam O'Connor, whose reconstructions and conversions of
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#17327808344624732-471: The building, with the intent, she wrote, of "transforming it into a dynamic spectacle of its own". In 2001, she began another museum project, an extension of the Ordrupgaard Museum near Copenhagen, Denmark, a museum featuring a collection of 19th century French and Danish art in the 19th-century mansion of its collector. The new building is 87 metres long and 20 metres wide, and is connected by
4823-399: The bulk of her wealth, were left in trust. Skyscraper proposed for Midtown Manhattan sited at 666 Fifth Avenue. On 25 March 2017, Kam Dhillon reported a yet-to-be completed skyscraper design designed by Hadid prior to her death in 2016 in an article titled "Zaha Hadid Architects Unveils Monumental Skyscraper Project for NYC". The first major project to be completed shortly after her death
4914-413: The central core of the building, bringing a rigid frame and a sense of movement to this completely new typology of tower.” The 94,000-square metre building, which resembles a ship’s prow, is the highest in the town at 147 m and has a capacity of 2700 desks, an 800-seat company restaurant, a 190-seat auditorium, a maritime museum, a fitness room and training rooms. Hadid described her Aquatics Centre for
5005-591: The centre "the Olympics' most majestic space". The Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan , Hadid's second project in the United States, has a space of 4,274 square metres, dedicated to contemporary art and modern art and an historical collection. The parallelogram-shaped building leans sharply and seems about to tip over. Hadid wrote that she designed the building so that its sloping pleated stainless steel facades would reflect
5096-541: The cladding and fenestration of the complex. Clarke developed a new type of mouth-blown glass for the scheme, which he christened 'Zaha-Glas'. Later reduced to three buildings, the project, which experienced delays in construction, was completed in 2006, without the artwork. In 2000, she won an international competition for the Phaeno Science Center , in Wolfsburg , Germany (2002–2005). The new museum
5187-408: The commission, and other critics questioned the UK granting its most prestigious architecture award to a building which memorialized a vicious Soviet dictator. The Dongdaemun Design Plaza (2007–2013) is among the largest buildings in Seoul , South Korea. Its name means "Great Gate of the East", in reference to the old walls of the city. The complex of 86,574 square metres contains exhibition space,
5278-421: The competition to design a new administrative building for the factory of the auto manufacturer BMW in Leipzig, Germany. The three assembly buildings adjoining it were designed by other architects; her building served as the entrance and what she called the "nerve centre" of the complex. As with the Phaeno Science Center , the building is hoisted above street level on leaning concrete pylons. The interior contains
5369-430: The curving and outward-leaning walls of glass. At £269 million, the complex cost three times the original estimate, owing principally to the complexity of the roof. This was the subject of much comment when it was constructed, and it was the first 2012 Olympic building begun but the last to be finished. It was praised by architecture critics. Rowan Moore of The Guardian said that the roof "floats and undulates" and called
5460-465: The first woman to design an art museum in the United States. At 8,500 square metres, the museum was not huge, and her design did not have the flamboyance of the Guggenheim Bilbao of Frank Gehry , built at the same time. But the project demonstrated Hadid's ability to use architectural forms to create interior drama, including its central element, a 30-metre long black stairway that passes between massive curving and angular concrete walls. In 1994, Hadid
5551-400: The imaginative and colourful paintings she made of her proposed buildings. Her international reputation was greatly enhanced in 1988 when she was chosen to show her drawings and paintings as one of seven architects chosen to participate in the exhibition "Deconstructivism in Architecture" curated by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley at New York's Museum of Modern Art . This, a conference at
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#17327808344625642-445: The impression of movement. The silhouette of the bridge is a wave, with a principal arch 235 metres long, standing 60 metres above the water. The total span of four lanes is 842 metres (2,762 feet) long, and also includes pedestrian walkways. The bridge was inaugurated on November 25, 2010, by the late UAE President Sheikh Khalifa. The ceremony was also attended by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, marking her second state visit to
5733-516: The interior. Hadid wrote that the principal characteristics of her design were "transparency, porousness, and durability." It also features many ecological features, including a double skin, solar panels, and a system for recycling water. The Library and Learning Center was designed as the centrepiece of the new University of Economics in Vienna. Containing 28,000 square metres of space, its distinctive Hadid features include walls sloping at 35 degrees and massive black volume cantilevered at an angle over
5824-510: The kitchen at Robert De Niro 's New York City restaurant Tribeca Grill , regularly doing 500 covers a night. Whilst in New York she catered for an exclusive Democratic Party fundraiser, personally cooking for President Clinton . However, she became disillusioned with cooking "posh food for rich people", and put into action a plan to specialise in affordable dining when she returned to the UK. Upon returning to London, McEvedy joined The Good Cook group, initially as Head Chef of The Tabernacle,
5915-430: The month preceding her death, she became the first woman to be individually awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects ( Ray Eames and Sheila O'Donnell had previously been awarded it jointly with Charles Eames and John Tuomey respectively). Zaha Hadid was born on 31 October 1950 in Baghdad , Iraq , to an upper-class Iraqi family. Her father, Muhammad al-Hajj Husayn Hadid ,
6006-471: The original space were designed in consultation with English Heritage and Westminster City Council. The extension houses internal exhibition spaces as well as the museum shop and offices for the curatorial team. The Innovation Tower in Hong Kong (2007–2014) is part of Hong Kong Polytechnic University . The building of 15 floors has 15,000 square metres of space, with laboratories, classrooms, studios and other facilities for 1,800 students and their faculty. It
6097-476: The other toward the Clyde." Like many of her buildings, the whole form is only perceived when viewed from above. The facades are covered with zinc plates, and the roofline has a series of peaks and angles. The interior galleries caused some controversy; visitors who came to see the collection of historic automobiles found that they are mounted on the walls, high overhead, so it is impossible to look into them. Rowan Moore of The Guardian of London wrote: "Obviously
6188-456: The overall form. The facade belongs to her earlier period, with smooth curving white walls and an austere black and white colour scheme. The building is perched on groups of five very thin pylons, and one gallery with a glass face precariously overhangs the plaza in front of the museum, creating shade. Rowan Moore of The Guardian of London described its form as "bending oblong tubes, overlapping, intersecting and piling over each other. The imagery
6279-414: The plaza in front of the building. She described the interior as follows: "The straight lines of the building's exterior separate as they move inward, becoming curvilinear and fluid to generate a free-formed interior canyon that serves as the principal public plaza of the Center, as well as generating corridors and bridges ensuring smooth transitions between different levels." The Serpentine Sackler Gallery
6370-428: The project architect who completed the building after Hadid's death, said, "We thought of the building as an oyster, with a hard shell top and bottom, and a softer, liquid, more organic interior." At the opening of the new building, posters of Hadid were placed around the city, saying, "Goodbye Zaha Hadid; Genius and Modernity, Inspiration and Transformation, Light That Takes Shape." 520 West 28th Street , also known as
6461-400: The reasonable ... a wave form sweeping up, almost lunging, into the sky ... here is architecture as the ultimate statement of theatre ... It is the most complete realisation yet of the Iraqi-born architect's vision of sweeping curves and flowing space." Consisting of eight storeys, the centre includes an auditorium with 1000 seats, exhibition space, conference hall, workshop and
6552-458: The same coherent formal logic of continual curvilinearity." The complex, like most of her buildings, gives the impression that every part of them is in motion. The Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku , Azerbaijan (2007–2013) is a gigantic cultural and conference centre containing three auditoriums, a library and museum, with a total space of 10,801 square metres on a surface of 15,514 square metres, and
6643-551: The skills to run their own restaurant. In August 2006, she formed a civil partnership with Susi Smither. The couple dissolved their civil partnership in 2012. She was engaged to Jack Monroe but the relationship ended in 2015, before they married. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to the hospitality industry. McEvedy's mother died when she
6734-551: The space is about movement...Outside it is, typologically, a supermarket, being a big thing in a parking lot that is seeking to attract you in...It has enigma and majesty, but not friendliness." Hadid's first built tower, the CMA CGM Headquarters in Marseille , France, is most immediately notable for its dual vertical form. According to Zaha Hadid Architects, "The curving profiles on the exterior facades work with
6825-399: The surrounding neighbourhood from different angles; the building continually changes colour depending upon the weather, the time of day and the angle of the sun. As Hadid commented, the building "awakens curiosity without ever truly revealing its contents". Elaine Glusac of The New York Times wrote that the architecture of the new museum "radicalizes the streetscape". The Museum was used in
6916-546: The three buildings at the base. The Issam Fares Institute is located in the campus of the American University of Beirut (AUB). It won the Agha Khan Award in 2016, the same year Hadid died. It has a 21 meters cantilever in order to preserve the existing landscape. The institute aims to harness, develop and initiate research of the Arab world to enhance and broaden debate on public policy and international relations. It
7007-826: The time of her death, including the Daxing International Airport in Beijing, and the Al Wakrah Stadium (now Al Janoub) in Qatar, a venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup . Hadid was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize , in 2004. She received the UK's most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize , in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in February 2016,
7098-661: The two judges in the BBC TV series Junior Bake Off . She also judged the 2016 Junior Bake Off alongside Nadiya Hussain . In 2016, she was one of the judges of BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards, judging the Cook of the Year award. In 2018, she hosted the CBBC series Step Up to the Plate with Fred Sirieix , in which they tested eight young people in each episode to see if they have
7189-614: Was a consultant psychiatrist , historian and writer; her mother was a writer. She was privately educated at St Paul's Girls' School , attending the school at the same time as Daisy Garnett, later food columnist of The Observer . McEvedy completed her classical French training in 1991 at the Cordon Bleu in London. She also obtained the Higher Certificate from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust . She later worked at
7280-541: Was a wealthy industrialist from Mosul . He co-founded the socialist al-Ahali group in 1932, a significant political organisation in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the co-founder of the National Democratic Party in Iraq and served as minister of finance after the overthrow of the monarch after the 1958 Iraqi coup d'état for the government of General Abd al-Karim Qasim . Her mother, Wajiha al-Sabunji,
7371-433: Was aged 17. As a consequence of this, and the stress arising from coming out as gay , she found adjusting to adult life difficult and was expelled from school, though she nevertheless took and passed her A-levels. Allegra McEvedy has been a Patron of The Fairtrade Foundation since 2012. Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA ( Arabic : زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd ; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016)
7462-460: Was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a key figure in architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Born in Baghdad , Iraq , Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and then enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. In search of an alternative system to traditional architectural drawing, and influenced by Suprematism and
7553-470: Was an artist from Mosul while her brother Foulath Hadid was a writer, accountant and expert on Arab affairs. Hadid once mentioned in an interview how her early childhood trips to the ancient Sumerian cities in southern Iraq sparked her interest in architecture. In the 1960s, Hadid attended boarding schools in England and Switzerland. Hadid was unmarried with no children. Hadid studied mathematics at
7644-565: Was awarded Britain's most prestigious prize in architecture, the Design Museum "Design of the Year," the first woman to do so. The building was named for the former ruler of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev , and commissioned by his son, Illham , who became president after his father's death in 2003. Hugh Williamson , director of Human Rights Watch for Europe and the Central Asian division, called Aliyev "an authoritarian leader and so
7735-448: Was built on the site of the university's former football pitch. The extremely complex forms of the building required computer modelling. Early designs experimented with a facade made of reinforced plastic, textiles or aluminium, but Hadid finally settled upon metal panels with multiple layers. The building seems to lean towards the city. The floors inside are visible from the exterior like geological strata. Wangjing SOHO tower in Beijing
7826-552: Was commissioned by the city of Vienna to design and construct a three-part scheme for the urban redevelopment of an area adjacent to the Danube Canal. Situated along the Spittelauer Lände, the series of buildings interact with and cross over the railway viaduct by Viennese Modernist architect Otto Wagner , a protected structure. In its initial design consisting of five buildings, the mixed-use scheme, described as
7917-506: Was on the broader pictures—when it came to the joinery she knew we could fix that later. She was right.' Her AA graduation thesis, Malevich's Tektonik , was a concept and design for a 14-level hotel on London's Hungerford Bridge executed as an acrylic painting, inspired by the works of the Ukrainian suprematist artist Kazimir Malevich . After graduation in 1977, she went to work for her former professors, Koolhaas and Zenghelis, at
8008-470: Was only a little larger than the Cincinnati Museum, with 9,000 square metres of space, but the plan was much more ambitious. It was similar in concept to the buildings of Le Corbusier , raised up seven metres on concrete pylons. Unlike Corbusier's buildings, she planned for the space under the building to be filled with activity, and each of the 10 massive inverted cone-shaped columns that hold up
8099-543: Was printed in February 2015. She was the chef in the 2008 BBC television series The Supersizers Go... with Giles Coren and Sue Perkins recreating historical British dishes such as Eel pie , Paraffin Cake and Tansy . A six-part BBC Two series, Economy Gastronomy , presented by McEvedy and Paul Merrett , began in August 2009 and was accompanied by a book of the same title. In 2015, she replaced Mary Berry as one of
8190-627: Was started while Hadid was still alive. It is noted by its curved external columns standing the full length of the building. Its twin Scorpion Tower has also been built in Dubai. The Beijing Daxing International Airport opened in September 2019. The Opus designed by Zaha Hadid is a mixed-use 20 storey tower, housing residences, offices, a mix of restaurants, retail spaces and a five-star hotel. The building comprises two structures that form
8281-462: Was the Salerno harbor station in Salerno, Italy , her first major transportation building. She won the competition for the building in 2000, but then the project was delayed due to funding and technical issues. Hadid scouted the site from a police boat in the harbour to visualise how it would appear from the water. The final building covers 50,000 square feet and cost 15 million Euros. Paola Cattarin,
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