Dorobanti Tower, Bucharest / Zaha Hadid Architects
Dorobanti tower, a new project by Zaha Hadid Architects in Bucharest moves away from the works we have been seen lately, with a very expressive structure. The 200m tall iconic tower will be located in the heart of the capital city of Romania, at junction of Calea Dorobanti and St. Mihail Eminescu, with over 100,000 sqm for mixed-use development which include a 5-star hotel (with restaurants and convention centre), luxury apartments and retail space at street level.
The chamfered diamond like structure tapers from the centre towards the top and the bottom. The meandering structural mesh expresses the change of programs across the tower.
A good move by Zaha in my opinion.
More on the structure, from Zaha Hadid Architects:
Concrete filled steel profiles follow in sinus waves from the ground level to the top of the tower, creating a distinctive identity and complementing the tower design. The concrete filling will give additional strength to the structure and it will provide fire protection to the steel profiles. The facade structure adjusts to the building programme and to the structural forces. At the bottom, the façade grid has denser amplitudes according to the structural requirements for a tower of this height, providing the required load bearing capacity and stiffness to the structure. At the technical and recreation levels, the structure condenses creating almost solid knots. Additionally, the secondary structure supports the main steel frames. It also gives the 200m tower a human scale as the grid of the secondary frame structure reflects the floor heights. Furthermore, the secondary structure could be utilized to support additional glass panels as a shading device.
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in my oppinion they just recently started to do more realistic proposals, because of economical pressure; they finally want to actually build something
and what the hell is this?totally empy, here is no architecture in it, no art, no passion, no vision, just fashion. fake.
you call THAT “realistic” proposal? Bucarest will NEVER build something like this…
Nice perfume bottle.
Seems like they only designed a facede, and even that’s ugly and pointless. Just another design straigt from experimental 3D modeling…
Oh, and isn’t the concrete supposed to go around the steel in order to give it additional fire-resistance or does this work in both ways?
my grandma’ does nicer hand-made art work than this lady hadid
looks like a corn…
Architectural terrorism. But then again bucharest is used to this kind of thing.May i remind you all of the beautiful palace built by ceausescu…i think this one will top that.
Hermoso!
YAAAAWN.
By the looks of it, this ‘realistic’ proposal is still grossly difficult to build and extraordinarily tricky to draw.
Every floorplate will be different and there is very little repetition in the facade modules, maybe one type for each level ?
These are tough times, this kind of stuff is not gonna fly.
ZAHA is DEAD, and maybe always has been… what a …
what a nice stocking-covered dildo, the structure is probably to enhance the stimulation while inserting.
Exactly!
Well, at least she moved one from past work, that’s a start!
another dildo building. i dont like it at all.
Zaha stretched and tore her stockings one morning in preparation for her day at the office… EUREKA! A TOWER SKIN IDEA!
Another slap in the face for Bucharest. This time really hard.
she deffinitely moved from past work, but in my opinion, this dosen’t really fit in the landscape. she’s like a machine
Looks like a zeppo lighter… no?
why? They usually do projects without any meaning. But at least they usually have a beautifull approach. But this has nothing. It is meaningless.
i also think they projects dont have any meaning. they are just ment to be different by any means. of course, i might be wrong.
looks like a shampoo bottle! dont like it at all!
silly coments form silly people.
It’s not only very ugly, it’s my opinion and we can discuss, but more than that, objectively a nonsens building, a new “fuckthecontext” one. How you know it’s Bucharest? Not a feeling, zero curiosity, supreme ignorence of genius locii… it’s a normal zaha hadid proposal, a shame.
I LIKE THE CHANGE IN STRUCTURE FROM THE STREET LEVEL TO APEX. IT SHOWS THE STRUCTURAL LOAD OF THE BUILDING.. NICE..
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zaha hadid is a man…not a lady…
he just playing with the facade
that’s ok.
zaha hadid is a LADY. it’s you don’t even know who she is or what she does. what are you even doing here?
i used to “watch” zaha hadid, i like her projects usually.. but this one just doesn’t fits the “reality” of bucharest and it looks so weird, unattractive.. i do not like it.
For the past 10 years she used to mix product design with architecture !!!, someone should tell her the difference … for architecture and god sake
This shape could be good for anything except a building !!!
Well I think this is a nice object ( not necessary an architectural object). I can see in this article are presented only aerial perspectives. In that part of the Bucharest the streets are narrow, so any eye perspective of this very heigh building is a disaster. Context is denied here and the basic rules of the eye perspective are not used. This is an out of scale object for that site. Bucharest is not New York.
What basic rules of the eye perspective?
In “Ferentari”, looks better….we need this tower…not food on the table…hehehehe
this tower not bad we needit here betwen us o look and see something it looks and higher than 6meter irepet we needit
Surely a sensual form and exuberant in nature… it would be great to see this project get built. Seems like it belongs in a star wars movie somehow, I actually like where her recent projects are going stylistically speaking, from the BMW factory to the Cairo towers, sure seem progressive. Nice project.
LoL more from habitual building drawer.
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Bucharest needs a Haussmann to lay some real avenues and a massive expansion of its Metro system.
Then maybe consider high rise, though the declining efficiencies of more lifts and smaller floor plates means you can usually get a better result wit a lower tower.
This is ego; the client’s manifested by the architect.
voi toti bucuresteni stiti prea bine ce dezastru ar fi, cum cladirea asta nu se potriveste deloc in “context”, dat fiind ca bucurestiul are o gramada de cladiri micute comparativ cu acest turn, vechi, pline de istorie si decoratiuni
intrebarea este: asa ceva se va construi sau e doar o idee trecatoare? am auzit de proiect inca de anul trecut…
iar pentru ceilalti
i suggest that those who have never seen bucharest stop praising the huge hadid tower, it could never fit the landscape, but could successfully ruin it and turn our city into a kitsch… it is not even beautiful or special
dak nu ati aflat intre timp..va spun eu acum, turnul ramane pe hartie…primaria a respins proiectul
this tower will remain on her computer only, the authorities rejected this project.
I personally like what zaha’s creating arround the world, I admire her courage:)
the hidenberg has plummeted to the ground!!
(fear and amazement)
And so has Zaha Hadid…
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