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Mehn! This is so sad! One of the best architects to ever grace this earth.

British architect Zaha Hadid has died aged 65, following a sudden heart attack.

Zaha Hadid , the designer of buildings including the London Olympic Aquatic Centre and the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, suffered a heart attack earlier today while being treated for bronchitis at a Miami hospital.

A statement released by her office said: "It is with great sadness that Zaha Hadid Architects have confirmed that Dame Zaha Hadid, DBE died suddenly in Miami in the early hours of this morning."

The Iraqi-born architect is one of the most successful female architects in history, and this year became the first woman to receive the Royal Gold Medal for architecture in her own right .

Hadid was born in Baghdad in 1950. After graduating from the Architectural Association in 1977, she joined her former professors, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, at OMA. She established Zaha Hadid Architects in 1979, which she ran with Patrik Schumacher.

Significant early projects included The Peak in Hong Kong (1983), the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin (1986), and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994) – but she garned most attention for her
Vitra Fire Station in Weil Am Rhein, Germany (1993).

In the last decade, she has completed the
Guangzhou Opera House in China (2010), the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in South Korea (2014), and the Messner Mountain Museum Corones in Italy (2015).

Hadid's many accolades include the Pritzker Prize, which she was awarded in 2004. She received the Republic of France's Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Japan's Praemium Imperiale and in 2012 was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

She has also won the Stirling Prize, Britain's most prestigious architecture award, on two occasions. Firstly in 2010 with the MAXXI Museum in Rome , and again in 2011, for the Evelyn Grace Academy in London .

Hadid taught architecture at schools around the world, including the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, the University of Illinois, Columbia University, Yale University and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Archigram founder Peter Cook, who nominated Hadid for the Royal Gold Medal, described her as "our heroine".

"For three decades now, she has ventured where few would dare," he said. "If Paul Klee took a line for a walk, then Zaha took the surfaces that were driven by that line out for a virtual dance."

www.dezeen.com/2016/03/31/zaha-hadid-dies-aged-65-heart-attack/

Lalasticlala

Some of her designs...

1. Evelyn Grace Academy, London, UK 2010

2. MAXXI: Museum Of XXI Century Arts, Rome Italy 2009.

3. Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, Beirut, Lebanon, 2014

4. London 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre, London, UK, 2011

More...

5. Pierresvives, Montpellier, France, 2012

6. Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport, Glasgow, UK, 2011

7. d'Leedon Singapore, 2014

8. CMA CGM Headquarters, Marseille, France, 2010


PS: All this designs are real and they have been constructed!

noooooo

Really sad.

R I P
This is indeed a lose to the world.

Rest In Peace! A big lose to the Architectural World!

awwwww too badt...

RIP! Very brilliant woman.

hmmm

With the title of the topic, I thought OP meant she's got physical curves.

R.I.P to a great woman....if these are her works, how would her home look like

Her book on architectural designs changed my perception on what was possible.

R.I.P Zaha Hadid.

RIP great woman. You were a blessing to this earth.

we the architects from futa celebrate u maam

Wow... When I first saw queen of curves, I thought it was toolz kind of curve

See structure

Rip

She has imprinted herself to the sand of time.

She impacted lives.

Wow she is awesome


farewell mama

Saheed9:
Wow... When I first saw queen of curves, I thought it was toolz kind of curve

lol my mind went straight to Nicki minaj

LastMumu:
Thunder fire you Op, I came here to see big yansh not this rubbish!

Perv!

kossyablaze:
lol my mind went straight to Nicki minaj

LastMumu:
Thunder fire you Op, I came here to see big yansh not this rubbish!

Birds of a feather!

Kenzico:
With the title of the topic, I thought OP meant she's got physical curves.


R.I.P to a great woman....if these are her works, how would her home look like

I meant structural curves!



This is just "Few" of her works... there are a whole lot more.

What a loss to the Architecture fraternity, she was a genius. Her imagination is on a different level sha

Flexherbal:
R I P
This is indeed a lose to the world.

Na which person's death no be lose to the world?

One of us is gone! R.i.p to you maam.

loomer:
Na which person's death no be lose to the world?

Some people's death are a blessing to the world.

A lot of people are just a waste of space on earth.

Oh! It's really despairing for the world to have lost such a rare gem....








R.I.P ma'am! Though you're gone, your great works would continue to be reminisced...

Cc Lalasticlala.. This should make FP sir!

RIP to a vessel of inspiration........ "you don't teach architecture you inspire architecture" Zaha Hadid.

More of her works...

9. Wangjing Soho
10. Heydar Aliyev Centre Baku , Azerbaijan
11. Super Yacht

loomer:
Na which person's death no be lose to the world?

Can u compare d death of Nelson Mandela nd that of Osama Bin Laden??

Which of the two is of greater loss to d world??