Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid replaced keen to curved shapes

The largest investment and construction in Russia, of these days, are exhibition halls with residential skyscraper, Expocenter, located in a centre of the Moscow, designed by Zaha Hadid. The main aim of the horizontal space is to house the exposition and conference halls. In the ground-floor author created open, but cover place for outdoor exhibition. The skyscraper is compound from two slight towers, that tastily join moscow´s skyline. The Western tower is a hotel, provides comfortably services from a market to a spa. The residences are in the Eastern tower.

The station as a city block covered by dunes

Grimshaw Architects won prestigious Lubetkin Prize (gave by Royal Institute of British Architects – RIBA) for Southern Cross Station finished last year in Australian city Melbourne. Central huge hall is surrounded by vistas in every direction with entrances from every street, which made space easily obvious. The concept based on a wavy roof, that is a response to a hot climate and at the same time it visually approaches the new docklands to the city centre.

OMA and a mega project in Persian gulf

Rem Koolhaas had created a huge tourist village called Jebel al Jais Mountain Resort, on a mountain in the United Arab Emirates. The concept rised from analyses, that in UAE, the relaxation has become the ubiquitous condition and it has to be attractive. So OMA decided not to convert the nature, as it usual in traditional resort, but to create a place, that exploits true natural condition. They designed a series of modern villas, cantilever and cliff villas, whole vertical city, but also the dam, the bridge. Each part presents divers urban solution and provides various degrees of concentration, density of buildings.