THE COLLINS PARK DESIGN BY ZAHA HADID
MIAMI BEACH – USA
THE COLLINS PARK DESIGN BY ZAHA HADID
Miami Beach – USA
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The parking structure is often seen as a practical requirement
within an urban setting. Through considered design, the parking structure can
become an inviting feature, one that can even include other functions beyond
simply parking. Part of the challenge is to question the full potential of such
a structure to deliver more than just a single purpose or immediate function.
The Collins Park Garage is a public parking garage and ground floor retail
building within the Collins Park Area. A number of cultural buildings are
located in area and we aim to develop a parking structure that participates in
and enhances the surrounding context by studying ways to link the area together
to provide a unifying vision.
Zaha Hadid Architects has researched methods and concepts that
bring the Street – scape into a building; making its interior a civic, urban
space. Preliminary sketches fort he Collins Park Parking Garage explored what a
parking garage can become by simply manipulating the building componenets
inherent to the building type. These sketches progressed naturally into an
expressed, continuous vehicular circulation path which suits its purpose, yet
provides a unique experience and even a degree of fun for the user; a
reflection of the city’ s aspirations to create an enviroment that looks beyond
established utilitarian conventions.
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, Serac
Bench, Burnham Pavilion, Maxxi Museum, to click below links from my blog
archive.
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