Heydar Aliyev Center by Zaha Hadid "The centre breaks from the rigid and often monumental Soviet architecture that is so prevalent in Baku, aspiring instead to express the sensibilities of Azeri ...

Here are the first photographs of Zaha Hadid's almost-completed Heydar Aliyev Center, an undulating cultural ... building is designed by Zaha Hadid Architects as a fluid volume that folds up ...

Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid has won the London Design Museum's Design of the Year award for her Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. The architect beat over 70 other designs in the ...

As a group of feted Japanese architects currently ... inappropriate scale of Zaha Hadid's stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, in the context of its daintier neighbours, there is no such debate raging ...

Baku is a large ancient city where the architecture of the past is ... The futuristic masterpiece by the renowned Zaha Hadid-the Heydar Aliyev Center, designed in 2007 and opened in 2012-has ...

The Design Museum's Design of the Year Award for 2014 has been awarded to Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev ... A few of the judges on why they chose the Heydar Aliyev Center: Kim Colin, Industrial Facility ...

Zaha Hadid has been in the architecture spotlight recently. Just last month, she unveiled a futuristic design for a building along New York's High Line. She created an interactive light ...

Designed to celebrate Azerbaijan’s independence and first president Heydar Aliyev, Zaha Hadid Architects’, Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku offers a vibrant programme of arts, music and performance to ...

Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center beat out proposals including the Volkswagen XL1 car and Konstantin Grcic’s Pro Chair Family. Related: Zaha Hadid and Leading Architects Design Antarctica’s First ...

Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan ... Hadid's Centre beat off 70 other nominated designs to take the prize this year, also winning the 'architecture' category award. Kim Colin of ...