Beautiful, but it looks very space inefficient. Especially the open areas between buildings could use more greenspace instead of being a giant sparsely-used curvilinear concrete slab.
incognitaburnersays
Why the hate for windows? I know it’s a museum but there’s still call for natural light.
RoadMagnetsays
Yes it’s unfortunate that we won’t see her work evolve, only age.
AzizAlhazansays
I always had trouble with Zaha’s work in bird’s eye view. They seem very forced and kind of imposed on their context. But also it’s quite oppressive to have everything designed holistically without any type of fragmentation to allow some sort of accidental encounters. I don’t mean to say that holistic design is a bad thing, I just don’t like when it’s very expressed in every single line in the drawing. The Paimio Sanatorium for example was holistically designed, however Alto accounted for this whimsical quality when he broke the grid at the sanatorium social spaces. Zaha’s imposing sensuous curves sometimes feel as oppressive as the Manhattan grid. But once you break out of that view and start to see her work in vignettes, that’s when the seductiveness of her work really prevails.
kieara62says
What’s the structure under the water?
Lord_Quintussays
looks like the architect sneezed 6-7 times while drawing this up.
MegaJiXiang says
Looks cool. Needs a pressure wash.
mabj4815 says
Has Zaha Hadid written all over it
LadiesAndMentlegen says
Beautiful, but it looks very space inefficient. Especially the open areas between buildings could use more greenspace instead of being a giant sparsely-used curvilinear concrete slab.
incognitaburner says
Why the hate for windows? I know it’s a museum but there’s still call for natural light.
RoadMagnet says
Yes it’s unfortunate that we won’t see her work evolve, only age.
AzizAlhazan says
I always had trouble with Zaha’s work in bird’s eye view. They seem very forced and kind of imposed on their context. But also it’s quite oppressive to have everything designed holistically without any type of fragmentation to allow some sort of accidental encounters. I don’t mean to say that holistic design is a bad thing, I just don’t like when it’s very expressed in every single line in the drawing. The Paimio Sanatorium for example was holistically designed, however Alto accounted for this whimsical quality when he broke the grid at the sanatorium social spaces. Zaha’s imposing sensuous curves sometimes feel as oppressive as the Manhattan grid. But once you break out of that view and start to see her work in vignettes, that’s when the seductiveness of her work really prevails.
kieara62 says
What’s the structure under the water?
Lord_Quintus says
looks like the architect sneezed 6-7 times while drawing this up.