ZAHA HADID
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Lilas
Once you have seen the work of the renowned office of Zaha Hadid Architects – the funicular railway station at the mountain top in Innsbruck, Austria or one of the built or planned works for Dubai – you know what the combination of elegance and acceleration can mean.
Hadid's design sketches have a similar momentum. Lilas, French for lilac, was Hadid's motif for a temporary pavilion her studio designed and built for London's Hyde Park Serpentine Gallery's traditional summer party. The creation bloomed for an entire week. The basic concept was the realization of a complex symmetry, the creation of a form that seems closed but was yet open in order to welcome and let in air, light, and sound.
Hadid's office excels in creating and communicating pathbreaking concepts for buildings, urban planning, and design. Her interest is primarily the intersection of architecture, landscape, and geology. Her Lilas in Hyde Park seems natural; it is almost a shame that only a sketch remains.
