Comments on: Cairo Expo City / Zaha Hadid

By: Hany Rasmy

Hany Rasmy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:51:30 +0000

@hadouta @amirahoweidy اتفرجتي على الديزاين اللي هي كانت عاملاه؟ حاجة تعجب الباشا :)
http://t.co/WQhE671f

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By: Hannah Allam

Hannah Allam — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:28:06 +0000

@HannahAllam @fadig Stone Towers in New Cairo http://t.co/2elniI1z and massive conference center near airport http://t.co/E1mvsdq9

By: Erin Snider

Erin Snider — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:35:02 +0000

@HannahAllam @fadig Stone Towers in New Cairo http://t.co/2elniI1z and massive conference center near airport http://t.co/E1mvsdq9

By: Comeau

Comeau — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:47:57 +0000

Looks great from above, but BORING from ground level.

By: Byungyong An

Byungyong An — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:04:06 +0000

Lovely and comport building!
Always have deep impressed in my heart….

By: Future Cape Town

Future Cape Town — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:57:35 +0000

@MariettedTH @thetripchicks to see freedom, ancient history and new iconic architecture e.g. Cairo expo City by Hadid http://j.mp/hQJG6P

By: Deasy Pesoth

Deasy Pesoth — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:32:56 +0000

Cairo Expo City / Zaha Hadid http://bit.ly/9Joglx

By: architist

architist — Sat, 08 May 2010 10:37:28 +0000

Zaha Adid is mathematical genius. YOu can easily see in her works. Give respect to that.

By: JC Perkins

JC Perkins — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:21:15 +0000

george, Bilbao is not Gehry’s first building,and not his last. The obsessions that appear in Bilbao were present in his work long before Bilbao and long after. Bilbao is just a small piece in a large research process motivated by FOG’s love of fish and carried forward by his curious questioning of how curvature works, and how it can enrich architecture. Every project is a new experiment.
So yes, the style may seem monotonous and boring to you, but if you would look a little deeper, you might be able to see what is actually happening in the work.
Same thing with Zaha: Her obsessions have to do with blending and flow…creating worlds where everything flows together… This has always been the core of her work, even back when she was working with shard-like planar geometries–the real content of the projects was always in flows and trajectories.
With that in mind, one can appreciate how effectively Zaha has been able to extend this idea to include literally everything on the site: buildings, service roads, pathways pools and even trees. And this is appropriate, since this landscape also becomes two large towers on the corner of the site from which the roof-scape becomes a fundamental part of how people will experience the project.

Now, as for Zumthor: he has his own obsessions too, and he employs them just as consistently as Zaha or Gehry. Every project is the same thing: Materiality and Light.
“Oh, look, it’s another Vals but this time on top of a church in cologne, or the edge of a field in Mechernich”

When you look past the style, they are all pretty interesting projects.

By: love_time

love_time — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:35:45 +0000

stop saying they using 3D max pls….i work at her firm before for temporary proj..they are using simple software called Rhino 3d..

By: Sondos

Sondos — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:30:28 +0000

Can somebody tell me what is the software used in such a project,, really necessarily !!!

By: Mohammed

Mohammed — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:14:30 +0000

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

By: george

george — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:25:35 +0000

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) :)

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:12:48 +0000

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.

By: JC perkins

JC perkins — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:34:35 +0000

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.

By: Expo City Cairo by Zaha Hadid

Expo City Cairo by Zaha Hadid — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:25:09 +0000

[...] Welcome to Expo City, Cairo’s architectural bid on the lucrative world of conferences and exhibitions. The proposed 1.5 million square-foot complex, which includes a shopping center and twin office towers, breaks ground in October, a design by Zaha Hadid Architects and engineering consultants at Buro Happold. The undulating relief of the expo space will be carved into smaller clusters of buildings, each having a specific use and aesthetic. A north-south corridor will link the individual spaces and funnel foot-traffic through walkway arteries to relieve congestion during big events. [via archdaily] [...]

By: andik

andik — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:07:57 +0000

agree…. stop her !!

By: Opium

Opium — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:05:03 +0000

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…

By: gg

gg — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:19:55 +0000

I think the romulans are coming.