Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
15/06/2018.
[Macau] China
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A new hotel designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, opens today June 15 at the integrated entertainment resort City of Dreams. This new Morpheus flagship hotel, will share resort with recognized brands such as Grand Hyatt and Dragone.
Exterior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Ivan Dupont
Exoskeleton. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Ivan Dupont
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Exterior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Ivan Dupont
Exterior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Exterior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Exterior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Exterior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Ivan Dupont
Exoskeleton. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Ivan Dupont
Exoskeleton. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Ivan Dupont
Exoskeleton. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Ivan Dupont
Exoskeleton. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Ivan Dupont
Entrance. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Entrance. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Interior view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Exterior night view. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Site plan. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 1. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 1a, Atrium. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 10. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 15. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 21. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 23. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 25. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 30. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 38. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 40. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Roof. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
North elevation. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
West elevation. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Section. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Section. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Pavilion entrance. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Porte cochere elevation. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Porte cochere section. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Vip drop off levation. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Lower atrium. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Lower atrium. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Lower atrium. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Lower atrium detail. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Lower atrium detail. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Shelves wall. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Atrium ceiling detail. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Atrium ceiling detail. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Dining pods. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Dining pods. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Dining pods. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Dining pods. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Dining pods. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Lift lobby feature. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Private club detail. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Private dining room feature wall detail. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Private dining room feature wall detail. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Restroom leaves. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Restroom leaves. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Totem elevation. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 21-23 section. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Level 36-40 upper atrium ceiling. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Atrium ceiling. Morpheus, a new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort in Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects
Asia’s most popular entertainment destination, Macau welcomed more than 32 million tourists in 2017, with visitor numbers increasing every year. Located in Cotai, Macau, City of Dreams is a leading integrated resort including casino, two theatres, shopping district, 20 restaurants and four hotels.
Informed by the fluid forms within China’s rich traditions of jade carving, the Morpheus’ design combines dramatic public spaces and generous guest rooms with innovative engineering and formal cohesion.
Conceived as a vertical extrusion of its rectangular footprint, a series of voids is carved through its centre to create an urban window connecting the hotel’s interior communal spaces with the city and generating the sculptural forms that define the hotel’s public spaces.
Linked at ground level with the surrounding three-storey podium of the City of Dreams resort, the Morpheus houses 770 guest rooms, suites and sky villas, and includes civic spaces, meeting and event facilities, gaming rooms, lobby atrium, restaurants, spa and rooftop pool, as well as extensive back-of-house areas and ancillary facilities.
The design resolves the hotel’s many complex programmes within a single cohesive envelope. Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) was commissioned to build the hotel in 2012. At that time, foundations were already in place of a condominium tower that did not progress.
ZHA designed the Morpheus as a simple extrusion of the existing abandoned foundations; using this rectangular footprint to define a 40-storey building of two internal vertical circulation cores connected at podium and roof levels where the many guest amenities were required.
This extrusion generated a monolithic block making best use its development envelope that is restricted to a 160m height by local planning codes. This block was then ‘carved’ with voids.
The underlying diagram of the hotel’s design is a pair of towers connected at ground and roof levels. The central atrium in-between these towers runs the height of the hotel and is traversed by external voids that connect the north and south facades. These voids create the urban window that links the hotel’s interior communal spaces with the city.
Three horizontal vortices generate the voids through the building and define the hotel’s dramatic internal public spaces; creating unique corner suites with spectacular views of both the atrium and the city. This arrangement maximises the number of hotel rooms with external views and guarantees an equal room distribution on either side of the building.
In-between the free-form voids that traverse the atrium, a series of bridges create unique spaces for the hotel’s restaurants, bars and guest lounges by renowned chefs including Alain Ducasse and Pierre Hermé.
The atrium's twelve glass elevators provide guests with remarkable views of the hotel’s interior and exterior as they travel between the voids of the building.
As one of the world's leading hotels, the Morpheus' interior spaces necessitated a high degree of adaptability to accommodate the many varying requirements of its guest amenities. The building’s exoskeleton optimizes the interiors by creating spaces that are uninterrupted by supporting walls or columns.
The world’s first free-form high-rise exoskeleton, its rich pattern of structural members at lower levels progresses upwards to a less dense grid of lighter members at its summit.
Morpheus draws on a ZHA’s 40 years of research into the integration of interior and exterior, civic and private, solid and void, Cartesian and Einsteinian. Space is woven within structure to tie disparate programmes together and constantly make connections.
Informed by the fluid forms within China’s rich traditions of jade carving, the Morpheus’ design combines dramatic public spaces and generous guest rooms with innovative engineering and formal cohesion.
Conceived as a vertical extrusion of its rectangular footprint, a series of voids is carved through its centre to create an urban window connecting the hotel’s interior communal spaces with the city and generating the sculptural forms that define the hotel’s public spaces.
Linked at ground level with the surrounding three-storey podium of the City of Dreams resort, the Morpheus houses 770 guest rooms, suites and sky villas, and includes civic spaces, meeting and event facilities, gaming rooms, lobby atrium, restaurants, spa and rooftop pool, as well as extensive back-of-house areas and ancillary facilities.
The design resolves the hotel’s many complex programmes within a single cohesive envelope. Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) was commissioned to build the hotel in 2012. At that time, foundations were already in place of a condominium tower that did not progress.
ZHA designed the Morpheus as a simple extrusion of the existing abandoned foundations; using this rectangular footprint to define a 40-storey building of two internal vertical circulation cores connected at podium and roof levels where the many guest amenities were required.
This extrusion generated a monolithic block making best use its development envelope that is restricted to a 160m height by local planning codes. This block was then ‘carved’ with voids.
The underlying diagram of the hotel’s design is a pair of towers connected at ground and roof levels. The central atrium in-between these towers runs the height of the hotel and is traversed by external voids that connect the north and south facades. These voids create the urban window that links the hotel’s interior communal spaces with the city.
Three horizontal vortices generate the voids through the building and define the hotel’s dramatic internal public spaces; creating unique corner suites with spectacular views of both the atrium and the city. This arrangement maximises the number of hotel rooms with external views and guarantees an equal room distribution on either side of the building.
In-between the free-form voids that traverse the atrium, a series of bridges create unique spaces for the hotel’s restaurants, bars and guest lounges by renowned chefs including Alain Ducasse and Pierre Hermé.
The atrium's twelve glass elevators provide guests with remarkable views of the hotel’s interior and exterior as they travel between the voids of the building.
As one of the world's leading hotels, the Morpheus' interior spaces necessitated a high degree of adaptability to accommodate the many varying requirements of its guest amenities. The building’s exoskeleton optimizes the interiors by creating spaces that are uninterrupted by supporting walls or columns.
The world’s first free-form high-rise exoskeleton, its rich pattern of structural members at lower levels progresses upwards to a less dense grid of lighter members at its summit.
Morpheus draws on a ZHA’s 40 years of research into the integration of interior and exterior, civic and private, solid and void, Cartesian and Einsteinian. Space is woven within structure to tie disparate programmes together and constantly make connections.
Viviana Muscettola, ZHA's project director explained, "Morpheus combines its optimal arrangement with structural integrity and sculptural form. The design is intriguing as it makes no reference to traditional architectural typologies.
"Macau’s buildings have previously referenced architecture styles from around the world. Morpheus has evolved from its unique environment and site conditions as a new architecture expressly of this city.
"The expertise of all members of the Morpheus team has created new possibilities for architecture," continued Muscettola. "The comprehensive parametric model combined all of the hotel's aesthetic, structural and fabrication requirements and will radically change how our built environment is planned and constructed.”
Lawrence Ho, chairman and CEO of Melco Resorts said, “From the very beginning, we shared ZHA’s vision and determination to push boundaries. Morpheus offers a journey of the imagination. From the curved exterior to the dramatic interior spaces, it pleases the eye and excites the senses: a contemporary masterpiece to be enjoyed by many generations to come.”
"Macau’s buildings have previously referenced architecture styles from around the world. Morpheus has evolved from its unique environment and site conditions as a new architecture expressly of this city.
"The expertise of all members of the Morpheus team has created new possibilities for architecture," continued Muscettola. "The comprehensive parametric model combined all of the hotel's aesthetic, structural and fabrication requirements and will radically change how our built environment is planned and constructed.”
Lawrence Ho, chairman and CEO of Melco Resorts said, “From the very beginning, we shared ZHA’s vision and determination to push boundaries. Morpheus offers a journey of the imagination. From the curved exterior to the dramatic interior spaces, it pleases the eye and excites the senses: a contemporary masterpiece to be enjoyed by many generations to come.”
Morpheus Hotel: Environmental Engineering
Solar gain is minimised by the use of high performance glazing. The building's exoskeleton provides additional screening from the sun. The atrium's middle areas are not served by air conditioning, only zones used by guests and staff - such as lobbies, bridges and restaurants - are air conditioned.
Melco Resorts has applied long-life specification throughout the Morpheus Hotel to strictly limit requirements for maintenance and replacement. All the hotel’s exterior panel fabrication was procured locally to the highest international standards, reducing unnecessary transportation and making full use of local expertise and equipment.
Additional active solutions have been implemented to increase energy efficiencies including the air handling units with high efficiency variable speed water-cooled chillers and thermal wheel energy exchangers to recover energy from exhaust air. A water-to-water heat pump pre-heats domestic water, while the hotel’s intelligent building management system responds in real time to usage and environmental conditions to minimise energy consumption.
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Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Design
Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher
Team
ZHA Project directors.- Viviana Muscettola, Michele Pasca di Magliano
ZHA Facade director.- Paolo Matteuzzi
ZHA Project architects.- Michele Salvi, Bianca Cheung, Maria Loreto
Flores, Clara Martins
ZHA Project team.- Miron Mutyaba, Milind Khade, Pierandrea Angius, Massimo Napoleoni, Stefano Iacopini, Davide Del Giudice, Luciano Letteriello, Luis Migue Samanez, Cyril Manyara, Alvin Triestanto, Muhammed Shameel, Goswin Rothenthal, Santiago Fernandez-Achury, Vahid Eshraghi, Melika Aljukic
ZHA Interior team.- Daniel Fiser, Thomas Sonder, Daniel Coley, Yooyeon Noh, Jinqi Huang, Mirta Bilos, Alexander Kuroda, Gaganjit Singh, Marina Martinez, Shajay Bhooshan, Henry Louth, Filippo Nassetti, David Reeves, Marko Gligorov, Neil Ridgen, Milica Pihler- Mirjanic, Grace Chung, Mario Mattia, Mariagrazia Lanza
ZHA Concept team.- Viviana Muscettola, Tiago Correia, Clara Martins, Maria Loreto Flores, Victor Orive, Danilo Arsic, Ines Fontoura, Fabiano Costinanza, Rafael Gonzalez, Muhammed Shameel
Client
Melco Resorts & Entertainment
Consultants
Executive architect: Leigh & Orange, Hong Kong
Local architect: CAA City Planning & Engineering Consultants, Macau
Structural engineering: Buro Happold International, London/Hong Kong
M&E engineering: J. Roger Preston Facade engineering: Buro Happold International, Hong Kong Third party reviewer: Rolf Jensen & Associates
Other interior designer.- Remedios Studio, Hong Kong – Guestrooms, L01 VIP lobby, L03
Spa & Gym, L40 Pool deck and pool villas. Westar Architects International – L02 Gaming areas & Li Ying
Restaurant, L42 Gaming Salons. Jouin Manku – L03 Alain Ducasse Restaurant. MC Design – L30 Executive Lounge. Leigh & Orange, Macau – BOH Areas
Quantity surveyor: WT Partnership, Hong Kong Lighting design: Isometrix, London/Hong Kong Fire engineering: Arup, Hong Kong Acoustic consultant: Shen Milson & Wilke, Hong Kong Traffic engineer: MVA Hong Kong
Contractors
Main contractor.- Dragages Macau, Hong Kong (a member of the Bouygues Construction Group)
Facade contractors.- Jangho Curtain Wall Macau – Flat area glass system. HACELY Facade Engineering – Flat area Exoskeleton cladding. Kyotec Hong Kong – Freeform area glass and Exoskeleton cladding. Front, Hong Kong – Freeform Exoskeleton cladding design for Kyotec. Creative Lighting Asia Macau –Facade lighting
Facade maintenance.- Flyservices Engineering, Italy
Interior Contractors.- San Fong Seng Construction & Engineering – L00 car park area and BOH office. Pat Davie (Macau) – L01 Lobby and Porte Cochere and Atrium Feature Wall, L03 Restaurant ‘Alan Ducasse’. ICON Projects – L02 Gaming and Li Yi Lounge. San Fong Seng Construction & Engineering Co – L03 Spa. SunDart Engineering Services (Macau) - L05-L38 Guest Room Typical Floor, L21 Chinese Restaurant, L23 Art Gallery. Jangho – L01 Lounge Bar Pavillion. UAP – L21 and L30 dining pods . WoodMate (Macau) Company – L30 Executive Lounge, L40 Pool Deck and Pool Villa, L01 Retail Street. Woody Construction & Decoration Co – L41-42 Gaming Villa. OTIS Elevator Company (HK) – 12 no. Scenic Lift. EHY Construction & Engineering – Corewall GRG Cladding and GRG
ceiling at L19/L29/L38
Dates
2012.- Zaha Hadid Architects’ appointed by Melco Resorts. 02/2013.- Decision for Exoskeleton outside facade line. 05/2013.- Design development of project begins. 11/2013.- Foundations: demolition started.
02/2014.- Foundations: bored piling started. 02/2014.- Design frozen and facade tendered 07/2014 Foundations: new pile caps started. 09/2014.- First above ground concrete core component. 11/2014.- First steel exoskeleton component installed. 2015.- Facade performance tests & visual mock-ups. 05/2015.- Exoskeleton cladding fabrication begins.
08/2015.- First curtain wall panel installed. 10/2015.- First Exoskeleton cladding panel installed. 01/2016.- Macro-window fabrication begins. 03/2016.- De-propping of temporary works begins. 05/2016.- First Macro-window installed. 10/2016.- Topping out ceremony. 09/2017.- Facade completed. 06/2018.- Morpheus opens
Area and mesures
Footprint.- 52m x 99m
Height.- 160m
Total GFA.- 147,860m2
Number of storeys.- 42
Height of Atrium lobby space.- 40m
Number of keys.- 780
Hotel rooms per floor.- 28 to 36
Panoramic lifts.- 12
Services lifts.- 8
Stairs.- 4
Atrium sky bridges.- 2
Total glazed envelope area.- 43,388 m2
Freeform glazed envelope.- 14,300 m2
Total glass panels.- 24,577
Total Exoskeleton cladding area.- 57,000m2
Doubled-curved Exoskeleton cladding area.- 12,155 m2 (21%)
Steel cleat connections for freeform Exoskeleton cladding.- 18,580
Freeform Exoskeleton cladding panel stiffeners.- 79,310
Freeform Exoskeleton cladding aluminium brackets.- 1,059,234
Unique freeform Exoskeleton cladding components.- 1,212,637
Unique freeform Exoskeleton cladding components.- 1,668,301
Freeform Exoskeleton cladding fasteners.- 5,135,563
Combined length of freeform Exoskeleton cladding extrusions.- 137,238m
Structural steel tonnage.- 28,000
Volume of reinforced concrete.- 70,500m3
ZAHA HADID
Zaha Hadid, (Bagdad, 31 October 1950 – Miami, 31 March 2016) 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 the 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, Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois, School of Architecture, Chicago; guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg; the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. 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’s 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 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 – one of architecture’s highest accolades – 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 year’s ‘Time 100’ is divided into four categories: Leaders, Thinkers, Artists and Heroes – with Hadid ranking top of the Thinkers category.
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