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The building should be like a curve, with a flowing beauty. One by one, liberated from constraints.

She broke the rigidity brought by architecture and used a highly expressive design to show the sense of movement that the architecture originally lacked.

A woman who has always struggled for recognition, but she works in an industry that integrates the most complex ambitions and basic needs of mankind.

In Zaha's design, the most iconic feature is the "curve". No matter how stiff the building is, after her deconstruction, it can show a special sense of flow.

Do you know who the female designers of great buildings such as Beijing Daxing International Airport, Guangzhou Opera House, Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center, Wangjing SOHO and Shanghai Hongqiao Lingkong SOHO are? In fact, a large number of buildings with "flowing" effects we have seen in China are all created by a female architect.

She is the first female architect in history to win the Pulitzer Prize for Architecture (equivalent to the Nobel Prize for Architecture) and is known as the "female devil in architecture."

On March 21, 2004, the Haye Foundation awarded her the Pritzker Prize, known as the Nobel Prize in Architecture. She set two records-the first woman in the 25 years since the award was founded. The winner is also the youngest recipient. Carlos Jimenez, one of the judges and an architecture professor at Reith University, commented on her contribution: "She made architecture a siphon of urban energy, allowing us to see the bursting and flow of urban vitality."

In 2015, the Royal Gold Medal, the highest award in British architecture, announced that the gold medal would be awarded to Zaha Hadid, making Zaha Hadid the first female recipient in the history of the award.

In the construction industry dominated by men, Hadid was able to achieve such brilliant achievements thanks to his years of unremitting efforts. The road to success is never smooth sailing. Hadid has also suffered many major setbacks. As the jury pointed out, Hadid's path to world recognition was a "heroic struggle."

Hadid's architectural design is extremely bold and avant-garde. There are all kinds of odd-shaped buildings with wide-open brains. She does not believe in harmony. She said, if there is a pile of shit next to you, would you be in tune with it?

In 1993, she accepted her first commissioned project, a fire station in the Vitra Park in Weieramrein, Germany. This project is considered a key work to help Zaha get out of its trough. It shocked the architectural world and brought huge reputation.

Although Zaha Hadid has been called a "master of deconstructionism" since the late 1970s because of his bold designs, it is precisely because his designs are too bold that most designs only stay on the drawings, so he has also been called an "armchair" architect. The Vitra Fire Station completed in 1993 is the first architectural debut of Zaha's official completion. Even before the construction plan for the Vitra Fire Station was introduced, it was already famous for its fantasy and surrealist style.

The Vitra Fire Station is located on the campus of a company of the same name in Weil am Rhine, Germany. The building's sloping and staggered concrete floors reshape the streets that pass through it. The Vitra Park is a site that integrates many functional areas, including factories, showrooms and the Virat Design Museum. Zaha was initially responsible for the design of the fire station, but the project eventually included border walls, a sports space and a bicycle shed.

These facilities are located at the bend of the main road running through the park, and this road, as well as the fire station at the end of the road, are used as a linear landscape space that echoes the surrounding functional areas. Zaha's design allows the Vitra Fire Station to not only exist as an object in the park, but uses this building to define its environment. The walls and roof of this building are all linear structural characteristics. From the appearance, this building is composed of many plane elements, and these planes and lines are tilted and folded to divide various internal functional requirements.

She has always been known for "opposing right angles" and pursuing the integration and flow of architectural space. What enabled her to achieve this style was not only basic skills and imagination, but also computer-aided design software brought by computers. The former brings artistic drawings, while the latter achieves precise calculations. To be precise, it should be to liberate architectural designers from a series of processes such as calculation of load-bearing parameters.

Today's China is undoubtedly one of the most popular testing grounds for architects around the world. In 2011 and 2012 alone, my country consumed more cement than the United States consumed throughout the 20th century. So the real place where Zaha Hadid can show her talents is my country. She wants to thank us for giving her a platform to reach the top.

People were surprised by the visual impact of star buildings and the bubble brought by more blind construction.

Zaha Hadid's works may seem ordinary, but they boldly use space and geometric structure to reflect the complex nature of urban architecture.

God's curve, the "queen" of architecture. She spent more than 30 years creating countless buildings that shocked the world.

Zaha Hadid (1950-March 31, 2016), born in Baghdad in 1950, is an Iraq-born British architect. Winner of the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Award. He studied mathematics in Lebanon. In 1972, he entered the AA school of the Architectural Alliance College in London to study architecture. In 1977, he graduated from AA Diploma and received an undergraduate degree from the Architectural Alliance College.

Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 into a wealthy and enlightened family in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. Her parents believed that education could make people independent and put a lot of expectations into their daughter. Her father's son, a family friend, was an outstanding architect, and the next door brother had a great influence on the young Hadid. In addition, his mother's taste also deeply influenced Hadid. Since childhood, Hadid has watched his mother come to the house to "make a big difference"-because her mother bought new furniture that was innovative.

In 1968, Hadid studied mathematics in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. In 1972, her family moved to London for her studies, and she began to study at the famous architectural institution-Architectural Alliance College. At the time, her mentor was the famous Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. At that time, Hadid was famous for her fiery temper, but that was why tutors and classmates liked her and the source of explosive power in her work.

In 1977, Hadid joined the Metropolitan Office of Affairs (OMA) after graduation, where he worked as a student for two years and a partner for six months. He then founded a personal studio and began to participate heavily in international competitions. Sharp sharp points and long arc curves like flowing silk scarves began to appear in her designs, bringing unprecedented visual impact to everyone.

In 1982, Hadid won the first prize in the international architecture competition held in Hong Kong, strengthening her belief in continuing in this industry. However, Hadid's work was rejected in the first review. It was Japanese architect Shinzo Isozaki who had unique insight and salvaged her plan from the pile of waste paper. "I was attracted by her unique performance and thorough philosophy," Isozaki said when evaluating the plan.

Hadid was very inspired. She has taught at prestigious universities such as Harvard and Yale. Her design works cover almost all design categories, including doors and windows, furniture, sculptures, lamps, chairs, cups and tableware. Her paintings are even more avant-garde and have been exhibited around the world. Their works are permanently collected by industry professional institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt. These all reflect the broad vision of a female designer.

Someone made an analogy like this,"Hadid is the best-selling mark in today's architecture world." She seemed to be sailing smoothly, so that a reporter from Lebanon TV once asked when interviewing Hadid: "You are a lucky person, right?" Hadid replied seriously: "No, I worked hard with perseverance. I spent several times more strength than others, and I never let myself go a day."

Computer-aided design can display on a computer screen an object that an engineer wants to design or a building that an architect wants to design. The originator of this technology was Ivan Sutherland, an engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who discovered the principle of how users and computers interact through graphics in 1963. Without the magic of computer-aided design, the modern material world would not have existed. It allows people to instantly modify models of products ranging from screwdrivers to cars, accurately specify their various parameters, and monitor the actual production process.

Nicholas Carr once mentioned his criticism of computer-aided design in his book "The Glass Cage": Before the advent of computer-aided design, the source of art for architects was painting. Freehand sketches are similar to computer-rendered drawings, both of which have obvious communication capabilities. But drawing is not just a way to express ideas, it is a way of thinking. Modern architect Richard McCormack said: "I can't imagine what I have left except painting. I regard painting as a process of criticism and discovery."

Zaha said similar things, and her partners praised the surprisingly clean and decisive lines in her writing. Many people use computer-aided design work not to create, but to cover up or avoid problems. There is no inevitable connection between "how a thing should be done" and "whether it is useful to do it", but to solve problems in a context such as architecture, these two points must be taken into account. Drawings drawn by humans can, but computer-aided design cannot.

Parametric design extended from computer-aided design is not unique to Zaha Law Firm. As early as when Frank Gehry designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, he used a software generally used for aerodynamic analysis, which made parametric software famous.

But even so far, many architectural colleges only use it as a tool, while Zaha Office is a practical testing ground. It not only uses it on a large scale, but also promotes its advantages and functions. She began to practice this technology-based architectural design method at the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg, which was completed in 2005, because it required more complex software support and established a special partnership with Volksbell's Science and Technology Center.

Later, including Zaha's first completed projects in China, Guangzhou Grand Theater, Galaxy SOHO, Snake Gallery, Aliyev Cultural Center in Azerbaijan, Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul and Nanjing Youth Olympic Center, Zaha applied parametric design technology to almost all of her designs. But as we said earlier, Zaha's design is not the result of software, but a reflection of true creativity and control.

Zaha is a person who hopes to build a house into a work of art. This is certainly a kind of ambition, but not all ambitions have artistic expression as the ultimate purpose.

Interestingly, no matter how Zaha interprets her works, the outside world, even her project employers, interprets these products entirely based on their own perspective. For example, the Guangzhou Grand Theater is described by Zaha as a "pebble washed by water", but the outside world is immersed in fanaticism for this cultural landmark. Everything is just as graphic designer Liu Zhizhi said: "Due to the emergence of Zaha Hadid, the nouveau riche class finally found enough new, special and strange architectural styles to show that they really understand what the future and contemporary era are..."

From the start of the project to its completion, the main point of contention for the Guangzhou Grand Theater came from its cost, which was accused of being an image project that burned money. According to reports from southern media in 2009, the building was designed and planned in 2004 with the goal of building one of Guangzhou's seven landmark buildings. The total project cost (excluding land price) at the time of planning was approximately 850 million yuan, and by 2009, the total investment had increased to 1.38 billion yuan.

Also during this period, all major cities in my country seemed to be in a craze, using high investments to build lavish "cultural landmarks." According to data from Southern Media, Beijing National Theater invested 2.6 billion yuan, Chongqing Grand Theater invested 1.5 billion yuan, and Shanghai Oriental Art Center invested 1.14 billion yuan.

This can also explain why many important and large-scale projects in Zaha have been carried out in developing country markets in recent years, such as China, Brazil, Mexico, Azerbaijan, Cambodia and the Middle East. On the one hand, the European and American construction markets are becoming saturated, especially after the financial crisis, economic development has slowed down or even stagnated. On the other hand, rising developing countries need designers like Zaha to demonstrate their sense of existence and voice.

Just as the Guggenheim Art Museum designed by American architect Frank Gehry can awaken a small Spanish town called Bilbao, star buildings are regarded as part of the legacy of many local governments. In contrast, commercial buildings are more conservative. SOHO, which has cooperated a lot with Zaha Hadid, is an exception. Founder and Chairman Pan Shimou once said in an interview with Curiosity Daily that it was SOHO that provided Zaha with a broader stage, larger architectural design opportunities, and more construction support.

Hadid's road to fame is full of thorns. Although she was long known as the "Master of Deconstructionism", despite her bold use of geometric structures and winning awards, large and small, sometimes as many as four a year, many people still couldn't accept her bizarre design plan. The famous mainstream architect Robert Adam once pointedly criticized: "She did not consider the inconvenience to the people living and working among the huge floor drops, sloping walls, and high ceilings. Space in Hadid's hands is like rubber paste, just satisfying her child's playfulness."

Many of her works could only lie quietly on the drawings and could not be put into practice. She was even once called an "armchair" architectural designer. It was not until 1993 that Hadid launched his famous work, a fire station in the German town of Weil am Rhine. She achieves a mirage effect by creating a state where the building is at ease and away from the ground.

In 1994, Hadid spent a lot of effort and won the first prize in the competition for the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales, England. However, opposition from Cardiff ultimately killed the implementation of the plan. They do not want a female immigrant with a strong accent and dark skin to preside over the construction of important cultural buildings. Hadid admitted that the defeat had dealt her a big blow. She has lived in London for twenty years, but no work has been published in the UK.

Another famous work of Hadid is her independently designed Rosenthal Center for Modern Art in Cincinnati, USA. This eight-story building is like a delicate square box, built on a glass base layer by layer. It is called an "pastoral oasis" by the New York Times. In addition, a parking lot in Strasbourg, France, and a ski resort in Innsbruck, Austria have also made Hadid famous.

Hadid's designs have always been known for their bold shapes and are known as the "master of deconstructionism" in the architectural world. This aura mainly stems from her unique creative style. Her works seem ordinary, but boldly use space and geometric structure to reflect the complex nature of urban architecture.

In 1993, Hadid launched his famous work, a fire station in the German town of Weil am Rhine. When its architectural plan was introduced but had not yet been implemented, it became famous for its fantasy and surrealist style. Hadid achieves the desired effect by creating an elegant, soft appearance of the building and keeping the building at ease from the ground.

This time, Hadid's award-winning work is the Guggenheim Art Museum in Taichung, Taiwan. The judges believed that she could boldly use space and cleverly use geometric principles to integrate her works with the environment, successfully demonstrating the beauty of rural life, so she awarded this year's award. Frank Gehry, a contemporary architect and a member of the jury, praised Hadid's every design as creative. Another judge, Febham, said that Hadid's design drawings alone had greatly expanded the "creative repertoire" of the building. After the completion of the large-scale complex she designed, her creativity can fully demonstrate the difference between non-deconstructive masters and Chumi and Heiman.

Zaha Hadid is not a master of deconstructionism. Hadid herself does not consider her a deconstructive architect. She is different from the deconstructive masters Chumi and Ehiman. Although the architectural forms are similar, Chumi's ideas originated from Derrida, while Hadid was influenced by Malevich's supremacy. The commonality of Kumi and Heiman's deconstructionism lies in their criticism of modernist architecture and the disintegration of the binary opposition between modernist architecture and traditional architecture.

Chumi reconstructs a theory of non-binary opposition, Heiman reconstructs a post-functionalism. While reconstructing, they all moved towards the opposite sides of their respective disintegration objects. Hadid, on the other hand, criticizes traditional concepts and redefines the essence of architecture, thereby developing architecture suitable for the new era. This is the essential purpose that Hadid wants to achieve in architecture.

Hadid, who attacks in many directions, follows the path of paying equal attention to theoretical academic research and design practice. Her practice covers almost all design categories. In 1983, she exhibited a large-scale retrospective of paintings in London. Since then, some of her experimental and avant-garde paintings have been exhibited around the world and have been permanently collected by institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of German Architecture in Frankfurt. These all reflect the broad vision of a special female designer.

Judging from the conception and expression of many of Hadid's designs, her distinctive Islamic cultural background is obviously weaker than the British traditional conservatism she accepts. But it is undeniable that there is still a tough and exciting side to her character. Many of her design techniques and concepts seem to be enthusiastically inspired by the vigorous spirit of Arab descent to move forward. At the same time, she also reveals a romantic taste close to nature in some of her "follow-up" and flowing architectural design plans.

Hadid, with the goal of "breaking the architectural tradition", has been practicing the idea of making "architecture more architectural", so that there are breakthrough novel works that go beyond the realistic thinking model.

Hadid's studio is located in the Crackenway area, in the heart of London. The office is huge, the ceiling is decorated with complex jagged blue plexiglass, and books and magazines surround the entire room. Hadid remained dressed in his usual attire: black tunic, black smooth-skinned slim trousers, and black Prada sandals. She sits for 15 hours a day without suffering from lumbar muscle strain, because her pink easy chair is designed in an S-shape along the line of the human body's spine, like a modern soft sculpture. This is the work of famous design master Verner Panton. "We enjoy design all the time," Hadid said.

She herself is also a fan of impromptu design. She once designed a pair of "architecturally" dark peach sandals, which are covered with hollow curves like turtle back bamboo. The wonderful wedge heel makes the shoes look as if they are detached from the ground and have a magical floating feeling. Hadid's subordinates knew that if the "devil" came to work one day wearing sandals designed by herself, it would mean that the unique boss had become an active volcano that could erupt at any time."She thinks everyone's work is too boring, or if she thinks her work is too boring, she will change her shoes to cheer up. At this time, anyone who is careless will attract her screams and roars."

Hadid is well known in the industry for his strictness with his work and subordinates. She has a strong appearance and has the unique vitality of Middle Eastern women. Her hair is divided in half, and the first two strands of hair are highlighted and lifted to both sides."It's like a legend lifting the curtain." One of her subordinates said,"You can't help but respect and awe her." Hadid assigned the work in a loud voice, and when hearing her voice, the hearts of his subordinates would beat. She is the kind of person who can spend 80 hours a week in the office, and the subordinates who follow her must be more or less workaholic.

Regarding his comments about his bad temper, Hadid said that without OCD, how could he become a good architectural designer? Male architects with similar personalities to her are not considered abnormal. What does this mean? It shows that men and women are still unequal. Male architects who have not been married for a certain period of time are still considered a "diamond bachelor", but Hadid, who has the same experience, is regarded as a "female devil who will scare away even the love of God." The same reason is true.

Her work is not entirely Westernized and modern. Zaha, who grew up in Iraq, has been fascinated by the complex patterns of Persian carpets since he was a child. With the hands of weavers, Persian carpets transformed reality into a rich intertwined world. Coincidentally, most of the weavers are women.

The most direct influence on Zaha is still the Architectural Alliance College in London. She spent her time there. The college was in its golden age and was the world's architectural experimental center. The college inherits the tradition of "architectural iconography", and many teachers and students of the college-Cook, Koolhaas, Chumi, and Kos-transformed the regrets of the modern world into the theme and shape of their works. They have the courage to be brand new modernists, trying to capture the changing energy, add new perspectives, and attempt to propose new perspectives for modernity. Whether it is Chumi's funny laughter, Koolhaas's mysterious collage, or Cook's declarative nature, they all integrate multi-dimensional perspective, fast-moving and intense shapes, and technological structures into images-the expression of these images is more about description than definition.

Not everyone appreciates her designs. To this day, in London, where he has lived for more than 20 years, no Hadid work has been published. In an interview with the media after winning the award, Hadid also bluntly said that he had been treated "unfairly" in the UK.

For a long time, people have agreed that Hadid's designs are dynamic and modern. But it is precisely because of these two reasons that many of her works can only lie quietly on the drawings and cannot be implemented. She was even once called an "armchair" architectural designer. Although she has won awards large and small, sometimes four in a year, she seems to have made no waves in the world's built environment. This situation did not change until the late 1990s.

In addition to honors, various invitations for her to host and design also flew in like snowflakes. For Hadid, the days ahead will be very busy. In Europe, she has already begun raising funds to design BMW's new headquarters in Leipzig, Germany. In addition, she has also taken on the task of designing the Italian National Center for Modern Art in Rome. In the United States, she is one of the final five finalists to design the 2012 New York Olympic Village. Of course, Hadid also wants to do something for his hometown of Baghdad, which he has been away for nearly 30 years. "It would be great to design buildings there." Hadid said. Because she thought it was really a beautiful city.

The 2004 Pritzker Architectural Award was awarded for the first time to a female architect: Zaha Hadid.

On March 21, the Pritzker Architectural Award Review Committee announced in Los Angeles, California that Zaha Hadid, an Iraq architect who has obtained British citizenship, was selected as the winner of the 2004 Pritzker Architectural Award. This is the first time in the 26 years since the Pritzker Prize was established that a female architect has been awarded. In 2003, Hadid completed an engineering project in the United States, the Richard and Lois Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio;

Currently, she is developing another project that coexists with the Frank Lloyd Wright building, the Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Other engineering projects she completed in Europe include: the fire station of the Vitra furniture company in Weil am Rhein, Germany; the Lfone Landesgarten-schau, the exhibition building marked the 1999 Horticulture Festival in Weil; a parking lot and tram stop on the outskirts of Strasbourg, France; and a ski platform on the Burgissel Hill in western Austria with a bird's eye view of Innsbruck.

She has many other engineering designs at different stages of development, including: the BMW Architecture in Leipzig, Germany and the Science Center in Fort Volsberg, Germany, the National Center for Contemporary Art in Rome, the master design in Bierburg, Spain, the Guggenheim Museum in Taiwan, a high-speed train station outside Naples, a new public archives, library and sports center in Montpallier, France, etc.

As the jury announced its results, Thomas J. Pritzker, director of the Hyatt Foundation, said: "As the initiator and patron of the Pritzker Award for Architecture, we have seen the first time that an extremely independent jury awarded the honor to a woman, which is satisfying. Although her main works are relatively small in substance, she has been widely praised, and her spirit and philosophy even show a bright future for future development."

Lord Rothschild, head of the Pritzker Prize jury, commented: "At the same time, like her theoretical and academic work, Zaha Hadid, as a practical architect, is firmly committed to pursuing modernism. She was always creative, abandoning existing typology and high technology, and changing the geometry of buildings." Lord Rothschild went on to say: "In her fourth year at the London Architectural Society, Hadid, as a student of Rem Koolhaas (himself a winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2000), completed a graduation design called Male-vich's Tectonik-she designed a hotel next to Hungerford Bridge on the River Thames, drawing from the suprematist forms that met planning and location requirements. So it's a pleasant coincidence-the awards ceremony will be held in the very beautiful and creative city of St. Petersburg, Russia, where Malevich once lived and worked."

The official award ceremony, known to the entire world as the highest honor in architecture, will be held on May 31, 2004. At that time, a huge prize of US$100,000 and a bronze medal will be awarded to Zaha Hadid, winner of this year's Pritzker Prize at the Hermitage National Museum, followed by a grand reception and dinner at the museum's Winter Palace. The Pritzker Prize ceremony is held every year in different locations around the world to express people's respect for historic and contemporary architecture.

Frank Gehri, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1989 and a judge of this jury, said: "The winner of the 2004 Universal Prize is probably one of the youngest winners and one of the clearest design development trajectories seen in many years. Her work is full of passion and innovation." There is a new judge on the judging committee-journalist Kryan Stein, who is the chief review writer for Phaidon Press. He commented: "Over the past 25 years, Zaha Hadid has created a cause that opposes convention-challenging traditional concepts of architectural space, architectural practice and architectural construction."

Rolf Fehlbaum, a judge of the jury and director of the board of directors of Vitra, said: "In addition to constructing architectural entities, Zaha Hadid has fundamentally expanded a building structural system with spatial clarity. Now that complex buildings are emerging, her innovative power will be fully demonstrated."

Judge and architectural critic Ada Louise Hostabre said of the selection results: "Zaha Hadid is one of the most talented practitioners in contemporary architecture. From her earliest paintings and models to the buildings and works currently in progress, it can be seen that they always contain an original and strong personality vision that has changed the way we observe and experience space. Hadid's fragment geometry and liquid mobility requires more work than creating an abstract and dynamic beauty, a major task of exploring and expressing the world in which we live."

Another judge from Houston is Carlos Jimenez, an architecture professor at Reith University. He said: "With rich shapes and full warning of form, Zaha Hadid's creation reminds us that architecture is a siphon that siphons collective energy and a permanent forgetting of the vitality of the city." Jorge Silvetti, a jury member and professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, said: "The buildings designed by Zaha Hadid are the most convincing proof of the primacy of architecture among space products today. Her unique treatment of walls, floors and roofs, as well as those transparent, intertwined and flowing spaces, vividly proves that architecture as art does not exhaust people's energy, and all it requires is imagination."

Zaha Hadid is the third British architect to receive the Pritzker Prize.

The best and most famous dated projects she designed are: The Vitra Fire Station and the State Horticultural Exhibition Hall in Weil am Rhein Germany (1993/1999), the head loop on the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, London, UK (1999), the tram stop and parking lot in Strasbourg, France (2001), the ski slopes in Innsbruck, Austria (2002), and the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, USA (2003).

She has also completed the following furniture creation and interior decoration: London's Bitar (1985), Moonsoon Restaurant in Sapporo (1990), Z-Games (2002) and Z-Scape (2000) furniture made by Sawaya and Moroni, and Alessi's Tea City and Coffee City (2003). The temporary buildings she designed include Folly in Osaka (1990), the Audiovisual Museum in Groningen, the Netherlands (1990), the Interbuild Blueprint Magazine Museum in Birmingham (1995), the installation Meshworks at Villa Medici in Rome, Italy (2000), the Xia Ting at the Spiral Gallery in London, England (2000), and the R. Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Pavilion (2001).

In 2016, less than an hour before April 1, Western April Fool's Day, at about 11 pm EST on March 31, BBC News released a shocking and regrettable news: the famous Iraq British female architect and winner of the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Award Zaha Hadid suddenly passed away at the age of 65.

The Guangzhou Opera House opened in 2010 and was Zaha's first project completed in China. Since its opening, various performances at the Guangzhou Opera House have attracted nearly 4 million tourists. The Opera House is located in the core area of Guangzhou's cultural development. Its unique double boulder design faces the Pearl River and combines adjacent buildings with the International Financial Tower in Guangzhou's Pearl River New City. The Opera House is like a pebble in a stream that has become smooth after being washed by the stream, sitting harmoniously on the river.

Guangzhou Opera House is located at No. 1 Zhujiang West Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. It is one of the landmark buildings on the new central axis of Guangzhou. It is located in the Tianhe Central Business District, adjacent to the Guangdong Province Museum and Guangzhou Library to the east, adjacent to the U.S. Consulate General to the west, facing the Pearl River and Haixinsha to the south, and adjacent to the Guangzhou International Financial Center to the north.

The Guangzhou Grand Theater covers a total area of 42,000 square meters, a construction area of 73,000 square meters, and a total building height of 43.1 meters. It has an opera hall, experimental theater, contemporary art museum and other art halls and three rehearsal halls (opera rehearsal hall, ballet rehearsal hall and symphony rehearsal hall). The Guangzhou Grand Theater was designed by British-born Iraq designer Zaha Hadid. It is called the "Round Double Pebbles". Its main building is a "Double Pebbles" in black, white and gray tones.

In September 2013, the Guangzhou Grand Theater won the "Fiddick Centenary Major Architectural Project Excellence Award". In 2014, the Guangzhou Grand Theater was named "Top Ten Opera Houses in the World" by USA Today.

The building structure of the Guangzhou Grand Theater adopts a "cast steel structure". The exterior facade is a three-diagonal folded plate lattice shell, consisting of more than 5000 pieces of glass and 75000 pieces of stone, of the same size but different shapes. The Opera Hall of the Guangzhou Grand Theater has a total of 1804 seats, including 1687 seats and 117 seats in the orchestra pool. The three-story auditorium has a "hand-wrapped" ceiling and a "starry sky" ceiling. The opera hall has an asymmetrical structure, streamlined walls and special grooves facilitate the performance of sound effects.

The opera hall adopts the internationally commonly used craft layout of the "Pin" shaped stage, and is divided into four parts: the main stage, left and right stages and the back stage. The entire stage has an axis width of 74 meters, an axis depth of 46 meters, a platform entrance of 18 meters wide and a height of 12 meters.

The Guangzhou Grand Theater was designed by British-born Iraq designer Zaha Hadid. Its shape is called "Round Double Pebbles" and its main building is a "Double Pebbles" in black, white and gray tones. The Guangzhou Grand Theater has no vertical columns or vertical walls. It adopts irregular geometric design, which causes the appearance of the "stone" to be distorted and tilted. The outer surface alone has 64 faces, 41 corners and 104 ridges.

The Beijing Daxing International Airport designed by Zaha was opened in 2019 and is a new airport located 46 kilometers south of the city center. The airport has the fastest growing demand for international travel in the world and is fully integrated into the country's expanding transportation network. Beijing Daxing International Airport needs to be designed to meet the initial needs of serving 45 million passengers per year. By 2025, Beijing Daxing will accommodate 72 million passengers, and plans to further expand to serve up to 100 million passengers and 4 million tons of cargo per year.

The design of its 700,000-square-meter passenger terminal tower echoes the principle of traditional Chinese architecture, which is to organize interconnected spaces around the central courtyard, guiding all passengers seamlessly through the departure area, arrival area or transit area to the central courtyard. The terminal's arched roof extends in six directions to the ground in a flowing manner, supports the structure and introduces natural light into the interior, while guiding all passengers to the central courtyard, and provides an intuitive navigation system throughout the building to guide passengers in and out of the boarding gate.

Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center is located at No. 8 Yecheng Road, Jianye District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. It is located at the intersection of the Nanjing Youth Olympics axis and the Yangtze River. It is located on the north side of Jiangshan Street in Jianye District, the south side of Jinsha Jiangdong Road, the southeast side of Yangzijiang Avenue, and the west side of the south extension of Yanshan Road. Designed by architect Zaha Hadid, it is a skyscraper integrating hotels, office buildings, large parking lots, shopping squares, conferences and exhibitions, and hotel-style apartments.

Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center has a total construction area of approximately 490,000 square meters, including a 314.5-meter-high, 68-storey tower, a 249.5-meter-high, 58-storey tower and a 46.9-meter-high, 6-storey podium building. The building was born out of a sailboat, but different from a sailboat.

In October 2017, Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center won the 2016-2017 Luban Award; in March 2018, Nanjing International Youth Center won the first prize in the 2017 China Construction Science and Technology Award. The exterior curtain wall of Nanjing International Youth Center uses a large number of curves, curved surfaces and corners. The entire exterior curtain wall uses more than 12,000 GRC (Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete) panels, of which the largest area of the curved panel reaches 35 square meters and the largest weight reaches 2.1 tons. The outer curtain wall adopts vertical lock-edge aluminum alloy metal composite insulation.

During the construction of Nanjing International Youth Center, the amount of excavated earth reached 600,000 cubic meters, 26,000 tons of structural steel bars and 40,000 tons of steel structures were used, and a total of 44 elevators and escalators were installed, including 25 escalators.

Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center was designed by Zaha Hadid Architecture, and Zaha Hadid, known as the master of deconstructionism in the architectural world, is the chief designer of the building.

Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center adopts a three-dimensional streamlined design inspired by Nanjing Yunjin. Traditional Yunjin is hand-woven by craftsmen with gold and silver threads, just like Yunjin silk threads. This landmark building also uses smooth line design to connect the cultural center, the new central business district, Binjiang Park and Jiangxinzhou Island one by one.

The facade of the Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center tower adopts a trapezoidal structure, which maximizes the length of the floor facing the Yangtze River and the double-decker elevator (composed of small escalators), increasing the planning efficiency of its core area by 50%. The cross-section structure of the tower gradually narrows with height results in the ratio of used area to total building area exceeding 70%.

The podium building (conference center) of Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center has a complex shape and a flowing curved surface. The main body on the ground is an all-steel structure. Among the more than 20,000 members, all of which are of independent size, and there are no identical members.

From being questioned by many in the industry as an "armchair" architect, to being called a "female devil" in a male-dominated industry, to now everyone knows that she is the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Award and an architect who has designed countless famous projects. Zaha has always adhered to her own style and constantly explored new possibilities on this basis. She combines new technologies and new materials to incorporate more creativity into these buildings...

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