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Cairo Expo City / Zaha Hadid
We were just informed that Zaha Hadid Architects will be designing the Cairo Expo City, together with multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold, after a two phase competition.
This project follows the recently announced Stone Towers by ZHA in Cairo, Egypt.
The new Cairo Expo City will provide a facilities suitable for the international conference and exhibition industry, making Cairo more competitive in a global scale.
The facility will be located between the city and the airport. The project includes 450,000sqm for exhibition and conferences, and also two office towers (31 and 33 stories each) and a shopping centre.
A carving and sculpting process (related to the strong relation of the country with the Nile) has been used to divide the large exhibition and conference areas required for Cairo Expo City into clusters of individual buildings that have their own formal composition, yet each building relates to the overall design. A main north-south artery is carved through the design, with secondary streams converging at the centre to ease crowd traffic during event. The movement of people within these streams informs the building entrances on the site.
Works on site starts on October, 2009.
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What a Cake!!!…..
…will somebody,please,anybody STOP HER?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does she ever take holidays? In last 2 months I saw at least 25 very big projects from this studio.
this has gone way out of hands.
W O W!!!
She’s Incredible….
you fools can’t understand the design proccess, and the complexity of her ideas…
and yes…she’s unstoppable and she’s very very far of our little minds…The potencial of her architecture it’s not for people like you guys…because you are in the XX century…and of course…not all of zaha hadid projects are functional, but she’s trying to innovate
and finally, i think that she doesn’t care our opinions…
:D, so……have a nice day!!!
go zaha!.
there a difference between being a fool and trying to understand what we are ready to sacrifice in the name of innovation.
has she ever built one of her masterplan projects?
i think it’s time. (even if this is not really a masterplan…but maybe the closest to her “programmatic landscapes” that has any chance to actually get built). the experiment of a whole complex of buildings with this kind of fluidity and cohesion is something that’s been projected and criticized quite a few times lately (by hadid and others) but i think that we might need a solid try to get a new idea of it.
It will be incredible when one of these current large projects gets built.
She dose excellent design and is finally getting it built.
I don’t know how well it integrates with the surroundings… but it looks nice, Zaha style.
I don’t know what kind of an expo this is, but it’s gonna be a huge complex!
Can’t wait to see it built…
Maybe someday we’ll called this..hey!! u r so “zaha”…..keep going…..
ooooooooooooooooo
she is good at 3dmax ,!!!!!!!
Hahahahaahaha
I like it and I don’t at the same time..something is always missing in her projects..which makes them FAR AWAY from being masterpieces.. I think she needs to combine more media in support of her interesting ideas, as opposed to producing only digital images..because when I see Zaha name I know what to expect and she can do a better job at defying our expectations..its just all the same stuff, like, do something different! lol
i think some intern had too much fun with the smudge tool in photoshop….
this is one of the more subtle propositions i have seen from this office in a long time. i really appreciate the update of the figure/figure concept. and buro happold are very solid partners of course. there are a lot of quiet things going on here that i can appreciate. i would love to experience this space.
amazing. really good stuff here. i love it!
this is rather out of control. the fluid curves are attractive at this perspective but really this does not make any sense in a day to day application. people will refer to it as the meringue building or something similar.
why there’s not any plan and section? i want to know more about the function agrangement and the structure. i don’t know how can they build this without columns.
ААААААА
К У Д Р И
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why in all the Zaha projects, i never see details or plans?
i don’t understand the building, and i think no one in here can understand the project acording only to some renders.
Эхх, раз, еще раз. Еще много-много раз…
plans PLZ
i don’t understand zaha, please, this is a computer on her hands. i think the world is a litle more dirty. Can you image a the human proportion in a city of zaha?, it’s not about the form, it’s about the thinking. Please anybody stop her!!!.
the architecture will lost the measurement.
the architecture will lost the measurement.
DUDES AND CHICKS of the architecrul world
IF YOU WANNA BE ZAHA HADID ALL U NEED IS 3DS MAX+TURBO SMOOOOOTH
TRUST ME
this project is completely irrelevant for the contemporary world. projects like this for the most part completely ignore any economic/cultural/environmental sustainability. the forms are completely contrived and non usable… so much wasted space. i am all for savvy design. i like curves and i like angles, but the whole “zaha” design philosophy is outdated. she was cutting edge in the 1990s, but that was at the fore of the digital design era and she was making cutting edge spaces. her designs were still a communication of pen and computer. but she has not evolved at all except towards an even more gross and masturbatory and useless realm. i have heard her lecture and read her stuff- i wanted to like her as i did find her interesting- but she is so primitive and moronic and the only theme to her work is “movement”. she has the design mindset of a freshman undergraduate architecture student who is under the illusion that architecture is a purely artistic act. the built work i have seen is sloppy and awkwardly detailed and looks good only from one angle- and not even from that great because all her photos are with wide angled lenses and reality is not as dramatic. it is also pathetic that you can tell exactly what software he stuff is modeled. enough for now.
se puede discutir muchas cosas…
to Sabastijan –
the only thing i love more than masturbatory architecture, is the masturbatory architectural critic…
i got two words:
TOYO ITO
enough said.
Zaha is brilliant, and knew what she was doing before she met Patrick Sumacher.
She used to be an artist, now has become a cartoon of herself (AA Grad School replicants at work). Still very impressive and awesome, but we get sick of it after a couple of minutes.
Someday we will laugh at this as we laugh at Bart Price or those wackos from the 80’s.
Nowadays, I like her better designing shoes and fawcets.
That’s a shame.
Hamlet the only fool is that who believes that shoving numbers into a parametric modelling programme and producing generic curved forms is good for Architetcure. It is not. The practice of Zaha Hadid churns out rubbish for the world without due regard for context, materiality or the human scale. Buro Happold then work the magic to make the glossy visual architectural porn appear real.
Hey landsnatcher, you make me laugh… jajajajajajajajaja
well robert….in this case…the AA and the IaaC are full of fools…and all the parametric architecture and the respective theories about that, are useless??? don’t you say that????
this is the new age…with masters like Van Berkel, Toyo Ito, Asymptote,etc…let me ask you something robert:
all of they are fools??
i think it’s all about putting the parametric aspect behind strong concepts and not to do it for the sake of doing it. I think toyo ito’s approach, for instance, cannot be reduced to the parametric while the aa’s production’s much less substantial i would say…
As a former AA student, I have to agree with amb
And Patrick Schumacker has been a bad influence not only to the AA but to Zaha as well.
All looks the same now, as a self-confessed marxist, he might be quite happy
…
we’re an architect,,.,.and not a tyrant!!!!
oh my,.,
please….!!!
WHY NOT???
what’s wrong with being new and real? why not creating our very own era’s landmarks? she is pinning the contemporary thinking and technology to the pages of the history! i admire that! you should understand her as an icon,Isn’t it that the world is seeking heroes right now? you all watch those movies and series,and some are even crazy fans of them!! then why the hell not!??
and by the way my friend, her approach is 100% natural! look at her curves! haven’t u seen them somewhere before? in the valleys and mountains n beautiful topographies?
what i love about her is SUBTLETY. her superior attention to the details around us. notthin outta space but down to earth!
personally as a future architect, i don’t follow her, she’s not perfect, no body is as much as nature! but i look up to her in the ways she’s translating what she sees and want to see into lines! that’s what I’m trying to figure out!
cause it’s all about the lines! all architecture is.
if such things weren’t seen before it was only because of the lack of technology now we can challenge our limits to expand as far as our dreams! then WHY NOT!
OMFG!!!
finally someone with whom I can agree…!!!! tnks men…
your words make me feel comfortable in this forum i.sun
Let’s go to defend the new architecture, and show to the whole world who’s the new generation!!!…
i’m glad that u understand my friend ,but u made me utterly uncomfortable with putting that F. up there! please have some respect at least for US who believe.
Fantastic GOD bless u.(i hope u meant that!!!!)
ja!
ok… it was not my intention…only an expression
sorry if I the “F” offends you :S
I value her architecture and genius, but I can’t understand why all her projects are after one fashion… She has too serious position in architecture buisness to do like that… For me, she only makes a fool of her.
wow this is amazing. I get the concept. The richness if the egypt sands really show in the design scheme. This is totally amazing. I hate all the nausty arrogant coments that people post. In 100yrs we are going to look back at zaha’s work and say, ‘yes this was the biggining of the futuristic city’. Totally love this!
she is awesome n doing the decon…in correct way
Is it really new or innovative? Really? Especially when your whole practice is based on sampling a series of script from a parametric modeling program that your latest interns from the AA happen to be really good at? She is the new age FOG in every way. It is no longer about research or innovation… its a self-involved obsession with branding. In an age where ‘collaborative intelligence’ is highly apparent… and project like these require mindfull contributions from several people, why do you continue to produce ‘zaha-esque’ images? Why is that even important? I’m sure zaha has just as much to do with the design and fabrication of this project as Bill Ford has to do with the design and fabrication of the new Ford Explorer.
As i say you… What a cake…
She has built large work before. Her building are disappointing because they are purely style. It will be some time before architects learn to use the computer for more than trying to make buildings match the flashy renderings their young designers come up with.
If you think Hadid is designing this stuff herself and not having her recently graduated student from the GSD doing it, you have no understanding of how an architecture firm works.
it is amazing works for zaha hadid
wow this is amazing. I get the concept. The richness if the egypt sands really show in the design scheme. This is totally amazing. I hate all the nausty arrogant coments that people post. In 100yrs we are going to look back at zaha’s work and say, ‘yes this was the biggining of the futuristic city’
I remember you that Zaha has been criticized before for her ideas, which were allegedly impossible to build, and with the Vitra’s building and the ski ramp, show to entire the world they were wrong.
so I have no doubt that we will soon see it built and we shall all wow !!!!!
and regardless of how it works Zaha and her office, she’s a genious…
people, she isn’t designing these things by herself. she is designing them with an office full of staff, most of whom are young students who are in grad school or just finished. the word genius does not apply in this situation. why do you think this building is a work of genius? i cant see one iota of self-criticism in these renderings. she has become a pop icon.
anti-human architecture. aggressive postmodern perversion. Nice lines, but I don’t like it at all.
i just wonder if this is gonna look this awesome from the point of view of the person who is gonna be around that space …. or would a human being feel a little lost around there ???
I think the romulans are coming.
Hamlet…you finally answered the question…you are not..lol. Has for zaha’s project seems like there’s too many people who like chantilly toppings…nothing against chantilly in cakes..but chantilly architecture is very annoying, too sweet curvy and sexy…like latex mtv sex videos…
agree…. stop her !!
for all of those people who disagree with her architecture, I have a single challenge:
find your own obsession–maybe it isn’t, fluid/dynamic form– and pursue that vision with as much relentless, imperial force as Zaha does.
stop complaining… you are only jealous of her success.
Ah not jealous in any way, fluid shape, or randon form. I shall return to the real worl to worship at the alter of Zumthor LOL.
JC Perkins, you say “find your own obsession,” but is that what makes extraordinary architecture? I think not. Just look at Frank Gehry’s buildings- most of which have THE SAME forms/ materials/ techtonic language/ expression as that of his Bilbao Guggenheim (which in its own right is truly remarkable and a great response to its context). But once you start “obsessively” repeating something (everywhere) it becomes a bore… it becomes less special and frankly (no pun intended) i would prefer not to see another Frank Gehry/ Zaha Hadid/ etc building with the same non-contextual, half-baked, re-hashed projects. i find myself saying “oh look, its another Bilbao”… the same can be said for Zaha’s recent spate of activity. Before this current block of work, I do believe that the work emanating from her office was quite visionary and certainly she has challenged the way we percieve architecture… It’s a different story for me now… I can just imagine all those fresh graduate-slaves pumping out project after (same) project in the Zaha Mass Production Factory? Poor kids… But i digress…
I think the Cairo project is hideous… actually, that would probably be an understatement…
i’m with Robert… when’s the next train to Haldenstein? (Zumthor’s studio) :)
I can`t wait to see this building realized in Egypt
perfect I like the Design so much and I hope to share in preparing this project working drawings for getting
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