In the other hand, i c that the reality of having a house all the year infront of the sea is something hard with a humidty 24/7 percentage of 100% many times.
the - trois- palms- jumiera, Jabal Ali & Diera- are great to have, but its a money in the water !!!!
other means that why do they just think to have sth world wide famous, i dont know how it comes back with the money wise...
any ways.....
Dubaï, territoire d'un nouveau type dans le monde arabe
Dubaï, territoire d'un nouveau type dans le monde arabe
(Sylviane Tabarly [1])
Pôle émergent de l’espace mondial, l'émirat de Dubaï (ou Doubaï), qui fait partie de la Fédération des Émirats arabes unis (EAU), est une cité-État aux caractères très spécifiques au sein du monde arabe. Elle a un rôle de synapse important dans le fonctionnement régional, mais ses ambitions s'exercent aussi à l'échelle internationale. Ce territoire de 3 885 km² et d'1,2 million d'habitants pourrait-il devenir un modèle pour le monde arabe ?
Au début des années 1960, Dubaï comportait quelques maisons en pisé, un souk, un port ensablé, accessible aux seuls boutres à fond plat qui sillonnaient le Golfe et la mer d'Oman. Les besoins en eau potable, en électricité n'étaient pas satisfaits, médecins, routes, écoles faisaient défaut.
En 2002, avec un PIB de 18,8 milliards d'USD, Dubaï produit 26,5% de la richesse de la Fédération, après Abu Dhabi (57,7%) et le PIB/hab y dépasse 17 000 USD. L'émirat affiche un taux de croissance réel conséquent, de 3,8% en 2002, oscillant entre 3 et 9% au cours des douze dernières années. Ses ambitions pour le futur multiplient les superlatifs : la plus haute tour mondiale, le plus grand mall [2], etc.
Having been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, Zaha Hadid is currently at the zenith of her success. Melanie Weidemüller met the star architect, artist, and diva at a press conference in London:
Will she come or will she cancel at the last minute? She has already made it clear that she will only stay for half an hour and will give no exclusive interviews. If reports and anecdotes are anything to go by, Zaha Hadid is the pop star of the architecture world and just as capricious as her designs, those built sculptures that seem oblivious to the laws of gravity.
Her designs are statically perfect structures that give the appearance of being dangerously instable because they are unexpected and like nothing the world has ever seen before. Hadid's drawings and models of such post-modern structures became famous even when they were still considered "unbuildable".
The first Hadid building to be constructed was the Vitra fire station in Weil am Rhein, a small town on the German-Swiss border, in 1993. Ever since, visitors to Art Basel have often used their lunch breaks to take a trip over the border to see Hadid's first work.
A designer who knows no borders
All of a sudden she arrives and confirms all the clichés. It's all there: the stilettos, the black designer clothes, the permanent fiddling with her mobile phone, the reverent entourage of young project managers, and an aura that can switch from charm to arrogance to latent irritation to open hostility within seconds.
The appeal of all this may be limited, but the impressive overview of the world built by Hadid over the past 15 years – a 30-minute video shown at the conference – certainly makes up for it. We see objects, interiors, stage designs, exhibition architecture, railway stations, hotels, museums, and industrial complexes.
This "architect" is undoubtedly a designer who knows no borders. For her, the delineation of art, architecture, and design is as fluid as that of research, tuition, and practical work. She would transform the entire world according to her designs if one would only let her.
Late starter
Now 56 years of age, Hadid's first buildings came late in life. The daughter of an entrepreneur and opposition politician, Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad in 1950 and moved to London in the late 1970s. She studied at the renowned Architectural Association School of Architecture and after only three months in Rem Koolhaas' OMA-Office founded her own office in 1980.
She gained notoriety with her exhibition design for the MOMA show for Dekonstruktivis (1988) and then created a variety of spacy interior designs, for example for a restaurant in Japan. She finally began winning competitions in the 1990s and found both public and private clients the world over.
Symbolically, her "Mind Zone" for the Millennium Dome in London marked the beginning of the global Hadid construction boom of the past few years. Among others, her designs for a tram station in Strasbourg, a bridge in Abu Dhabi, a university in Mexico, a ferry terminal in Salerno, the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, and the first museum for contemporary art in Rome have been implemented since 2000.
Her most famous buildings demonstrate what makes her designs so unique: Hadid builds as if she was reinventing the art of building. The Bergisel ramp near Innsbruck was opened in 2002: this 90-metre long concrete and steel structure stretches up into the sky like an elegant dinosaur neck while the spectacular café and viewing terrace, both 40 m above the ground, give visitors a breathtaking view of ski jumpers in mid air.
A symbiosis of two worlds
Her goal is to achieve the best possible combination of function and form, while simultaneously meeting technical, social, and aesthetic requirements. Two recent examples of this creed can be found in Germany, currently the country with the highest density of Hadid buildings. The Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg opened its doors in 2005.
The new headquarters of the BMW plant in Leipzig, which employs 650 people, was also opened in 2005 and has since won numerous awards. What made Hadid's BMW plant design so innovative was the fact that she did away with the traditional separation of planning, production, and administration. The headquarters are hinge, interface, and brain in one; the point at which all production and communication flows within the factory converge.
In architectural terms this means that Hadid did away with exclusive areas and designed an open space office with an open canteen for all employees. Over the heads of the diners, car parts sail along on conveyor belts on their way from the chassis production unit to the paint shop and then back again for final assembly. In social terms, this means the symbiosis of two worlds and status groups: blue and white collar workers sitting and working side by side.
The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize
Zaha Hadid is currently at the zenith of her success. Her construction projects have reached the dimension of master plans for entire urban residential and industrial complexes. Examples include "One North" in Singapore (currently under construction), "Zorrozaurre" in Bilbao, "Olebeaga" in Spain, "Soho City" in Beijing, or her most recent competition winner, the Kartal Masterplan in Istanbul.
The press package lists thirty prizes and awards, including the so-called "Nobel Prize for Architecture", the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which she became the first woman to win in 2004. She also lectures in London, Harvard, at Columbia University, and is currently a professor in Vienna and Yale. In 2006, the Guggenheim New York held an extensive retrospective of her work. Meanwhile her objects, models, and drawings are selling like hot cakes on the art market.
The Hadid video ends with a view of her "ideal house" for the Cologne Furniture Fair, where the architecture is appearing as a designer. After all, "for me, architecture and design are one and the same".
When her colleague Naoto Fukasawa links up to the press conference by video from Japan, he gives his view of the star architect's daring visions with typical Asian politeness. By that time, Zaha Hadid has already left the building. Things to do, people to see …
Great Architect was chosen by Al-khiyal ..
thanks........................Here is Some information about Zaha Hadid.
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Known for challenging popular convention, ZAHA HADID stands out as the only female independent practitioner among today's most elite architects. Born in Iraq in 1950, Hadid received her degree in mathematics from the American University in Beirut and studied at the Architectural Association in London, where she won the Diploma Prize in 1977. Upon graduation Hadid became a partner in the Office of Metropolitan Architecture, where she worked with influential architects Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis. Establishing her own practice in London in 1979, she soon gained international attention with her controversial winning entry for the Peak International Design Competition for Hong Kong in 1983.
Although the Hong Kong Peak project exists solely on paper, its astonishing composition, with floors soaring off in myriad directions, solidified Hadid's reputation as a highly creative designer unfettered by traditional notions of architectural form. Throughout the 1980s she produced many paintings and award-winning designs, and was the only woman included in the Museum of Modern Art's 1988 Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition. In 1993 her career entered a new phase with the construction of the Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, Germany, her first physically-realized project. This small structure, which has been characterized as "frozen motion," reflects Hadid's frequent use of unusual shapes to integrate a building with its environment.
In recent years Hadid has won numerous commissions, inspired several exhibitions, and rapidly increased the number of her projects under construction. Among these is her first American project, the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio. National Building Museum: Zaha Hadid Laboratory
Born in Baghdad, Iraq, she received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. After graduating she worked with her former teacher, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, becoming a partner in 1977. In 1980 she established her own London-based practice. During the 1980s she also taught at the Architectural Association. She has also taught at prestigious institutions around the world; she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.
* Hoenheim-North Terminus & Car Park (2001), Strasbourg, France
* Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (1998), Cincinnati, Ohio
* Vitra Fire Station (1994), Weil am Rhein, Germany
She has also undertaken some high-profile interior work, including the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome in London. One current project is for the 20,000-seat Aquatics Centre for London, one of the new venues being constructed for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Zaha Hadid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The blurry interface of suburbia and exurbia (a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia) represents a strange and alien territory for architects, a land of vague contexts and haphazardly (un)organized spaces. The intermodal transportation center designed by Zaha Hadid for the outer limits of Strasbourg capitalizes on the very haphazardness of its suburban setting. With characteristic elegance and deceptive simplicity, Hadid managed to reconcile the ubiquitous car with the dense historic fabric of Strasbourg, a city that lies near France's border with Germany. The architect folded a zone of concrete up from the ground to form a canopy that stretches diagonally across bus and tram lanes toward the parking lot and Strasbourg beyond, as though pulled in that direction. The lots demonstrate Hadid's assumption that the buses and trams are a permanently impermanent part of the station's overall organization and composition, and the cars that park there are treated as natural phenomena with their own diurnal rhythms.
Les liens donnent accès à l'explication détaillée de l'effet, accompagnée d'exemples tirés des analyses en ligne
effets analytiques :
a1 = 1 > parmi des formes séparées, certaines se rassemblent vers un centre commun et d'autres se dispersent. 2 > des formes butent contre un trajet qui se poursuit sans entrave.
a3 = le rassemblement de formes qui se dispersent produit une forme fixe bien lisible qui les retient ensemble.
a4 = on est attiré à ressentir un enveloppement continu autour de nous, mais le morcellement et les courbures inverses des parties qui génèrent cet enveloppement nous retiennent de cette impression.
a5 = des formes bien distinctes sont animées de dynamismes autonomes les uns des autres, et, malgré leurs élans divergents, elles suivent localement un alignement commun.
a6 = on est attiré vers un lieu, tout en ressentant simultanément le trop grand écart qui nous empêche d'y aller.
a7 = on est entraîné à lire un tracé continu ou une surface continue, mais une ou des coupures dans ces continuités nous en retiennent.
a8 = une forme enveloppante est totalement hors d'échelle.
a9 = un tracé continu alterne les parcours lisses et les accidents où s'accroche le regard.
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