SERAC BENCH DESIGN BY ZAHA HADID FOR LAB 23
SERAC BENCH
DESIGN BY ZAHA HADID FOR LAB 23
ZAHA HADID
FOR LAB 23
Zaha Hadid's
concept of urban furniture to be seamlessly integrated with its context and
Lab23's experience coalesce into the Serac Collection, especially the Serac
Bench, the urban bench designed by the architect and designer for the renowned
street furniture label. The concept behind the Serac Bench, which will be
presented at Fuorisalone 2013, at the Officine della Torneria from April 8th to
14th, is evoked by the image of a block of ice formed by intersecting crevasses
in a glacier. Developed as an urban sculpture for seating and resting, the
Serac Bench seamlessly integrates with its context. Its striated articulations
emerge from the landscape, each layer taking its own unique trajectory in
reaction to latent forces that disperse - and ultimately coalesce - the many
strata of the bench to generate its overall formal composition. The design
rediscovers the fluid, continuous nature of Zaha Hadid's work - exploring
relationships between full and void, object and background, form and function;
an evolutionary pattern that is evident throughout her repertoire.
The bench has been developed in resin quartz, a tough and durable material that when shaped into a more curvaceous form, transitions into a softer, fluid and tactile surface. The sparkling crystal balances a stunning light play with mesmerizing depth.
The bench has been developed in resin quartz, a tough and durable material that when shaped into a more curvaceous form, transitions into a softer, fluid and tactile surface. The sparkling crystal balances a stunning light play with mesmerizing depth.
Lab23, with
numerous collaborations with world-renowned architects and designers under its
belt, will present the Serach Bench together with its entire collection of
street furniture, developed with innovative and enviromentally friendly
materials, which have always characterized the brand. The common and
idenitfying feature of this collection is indeed the use of WPC, wood and
plastic composit, an entirely recyclable material.
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ZAHA HADID
Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded
the Pritzker Architecture Prize ( considered to be the Nobel Prize of
architecture) in 2004 and is internationally known for both her theoretical and
academic work. Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over
thirty years of revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated
fields of urbanism, architecture and design. Hadid’ s interest lies in the
rigorous interface between architecture, landscape and geology as her practice
integrates natural topography and human – made systems , leading to
experimentation with cutting – edge Technologies. Such a process often results
in unexpected and dynamic architectural forms.
EDUCATION
Hadid studied architecture at he Architectural Association
from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977.
TEACHING
She became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan
Architecture, taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia
Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she
has held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harward
University; The Sullivan Chair at the University Illinois, School of
Architecture, Chicago; guest professorsships at the Hochschule für Bildende
Künste in Hamburg; The Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters
Studio at Columbia University, Newyork. In addition, she was made Honorary
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American
Institute of Architecture and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is
currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and
was the Eero saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut.
AWARDS
Zaha Hadid’ s work of the past 30 years was the subject of
critically – acclaimed retrospective exhibitions at New York’ s Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum in 2006, London Design museum in 2007 and the Palazzo della
Ragione, Padua, Italy in 2009. Her recently completed projects include the
MAXXI Museum in Rome; which won the Stirling award in 2010. Hadid’ s
outstanding contribution to the Stirling award in 2010. Hadid’ s outstanding
contribution to the architectural profession continues to be acknowledged by
the most world’ s most respected institutions. She received the prestigious ‘
Praemium Imperiale ’ from the Japan Art Association in 2009, and in 2010, the
Stirling Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other recent
awards include UNESCO naming Hadid as an ‘ Artist for Peace ‘ at a
ceremony in their Paris headquarters last year. Also in 2010, the Republic of
France named Hadid as ‘ Commandeur de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ in
recognition of her services to architecture, and TIME magazine included her in
their 2010 list of the ‘ 100 most Influential People in the World ‘. This years
‘ Time 100 ‘ is divided into four categories: Leaders, Thinkers, Artist and
Hereos – with Hadid ranking top of the Thinkers category.
ZHA PROJECTS:
Zaha has played a pivotal role in a great many Zaha Hadid
Architects projects over the past 30 years. The Maxxi National Museum of 21 st
Century Arts in Rome, Italy; the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany and
the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany are excellent demonstrations of
Hadid’ s quest for complex, fluid space. Previous seminal buildings such as the
Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinati, USA, have also been hailed
as architecture that transforms our vision of the future with new spatial
concepts and bold, visionary forms.
Currently Hadid is working on a multitude of projects
worldwide including: The London Aquatics Centre fort he 2012 Olympic Games;
High – Speed Train Stations in Naples and Durango; The CMA CGM Headquarters
tower in Marseille; The Fiera di Milano masterplan and tower as well as major
master planning projects in Beijing, Bilboa, Istanbul and Singapore. In the
Middle East, Hadid’ s portfolio includes national cultural and research centres
in Jordan, Morocco, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia, as well as
the new Central Bank of Iraq.
You may visit Zaha Hadid Architects’ projects, design and exhibitions news; Crest at
Victoria & Albert Museum, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, , Unique Circle,
Serpentine Sackler Gallery, Parametric Space, Heydar Aliyev Center, The Collins
Park Garage, Burnham Pavilion, Maxxi Museum, to click below links from my blog
archive.
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2014/09/crest-design-by-zaha-hadid-architect-at.html