Zaha Hadid goes extra large in the Chinese city of Chengdu, now word has it the architect plans to build the “world’s largest standalone structure,” to be unveiled next year.
Zaha Hadid goes extra large in the Chinese city of Chengdu, now word has it the architect plans to build the “world’s largest standalone structure,” to be unveiled next year. "The Hadid-designed Contemporary Art Center is projected to be the largest and most comprehensive arts and cultural center in West China, with a 30,000-sqm museum of contemporary art, a 12,000-sqm exhibition hall, and an 1,800-seat grand theatre." More info at Jing Daily and Go Chengdoo
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Why? Why?
That's all I can say in response. WHY?
As always streamlines, digital forms... with no reality check whatsoever .
Degradation of creative search. Simple as that. http://archialternative.com/2010/10/19/ff-degradation/
futuristic sperm
zoolander?
whoa, it's totally a sperm, circling an ovum... trying (a little too) hard to become an architectural zygote.
It is a spoon show. Go ride it. Most of your design instructors do. I am betting there will be scaled iterations of this particularity as soon as next semester.
I don't think the design of the building at least from whats visible, as an object, is so bad... but the rendering is just very unattractive.
All the purple from the headlights and lame curves in the landscape are what ruin it for me.
Zaha sucks at landscape. Really just a pattern applied in Illustrator, looks like the "blend" command on the building foot print usually.
Well looking at the website Zaha's contribution is actually the best in the bunch. Side by side with that other monstrosity.
If this is the future of China, it's bleak.
Actually, as the linked article states, Hadid is NOT building the "world's biggest standalone structure," she is building a Contemporary Art Center that will be one of three separate elements in a complex, of which one element will be the "world's biggest standalone structure." The world's biggest structure is a Mediterranean themed complex complete with huge pools, hotels and IMAX theaters (obviously Hadid doesn't do "themed" work). Hadid's separate Art Center will be large, but not hyperbolically so.
It is such a big project with 1.5 million square meter of floor plan that I have never seen before. The building that is shown in the picture is not fascinating as much as the other Zaha’s project. It is just like a spoon that left over on the ground. This building could be anywhere. It doesn’t have special characteristics that can reflect the Chinese culture.
zaha is already extra large- she's always been a fatso. as for this design, it looks like a mashup between a tea strainer and a computer mouse. what a piece of garbage- just the sort of thing china loves and possibly deserves.
It is such a big project with 1.5 million square meter of floor plan that I have never seen before. The building that is shown in the picture is not fascinating as much as the other Zaha’s project. It is just like a spoon that left over on the ground. This building could be anywhere. It doesn’t have special characteristics that can reflect the Chinese culture.
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