Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre by Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid Architects announce the design of the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre a new cultural institution for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on behalf of the Tourism Development and Investment Company of Abu Dhabi (TDIC). Zaha Hadid unveiled the design of the new Performing Arts Centre at a press conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE today.
Hadid’s Performing Arts Centre concept, a 62 metre high building is proposing to house five theatres a music hall, concert hall, opera house, drama theatre and a flexible theatre with a combined seating capacity for 6,300. The Centre may also house an Academy of Performing Arts.
The Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre will be one of five major cultural institutions on the new 270-hectacre cultural district of Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi - developed by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on behalf of the Tourism Development and Investment Company of Abu Dhabi (TDIC).
Zaha Hadid describes the design of the Performing Arts Centre as a sculptural form that emerges from a linear intersection of pedestrian paths within the cultural district, gradually developing into a growing organism that sprouts a network of successive branches.
Architect: Zaha Hadid Via: Dezeen
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Perfect Good
Absolutely beautiful
A true work of art.
Reminds me of some Calatrava’s work, only a bit more smooth.
sorry, for your info calatrava design and z.hadid design are a total different.
what material are they used for the architectural?what the god like
it’s beautiful!
Zaha’s opus may celebrate coronation with this magnificent hybrid of two paradoxical worlds - evolutionary cell mitosis accompanied with simple and diferential mathematics. These two became the seal of her design, a symbiosis visible on a glance.
Within its curvature, Performing Arts Centre partially contravenes its mein veiling straight line crafted steel access to upper floors and separate pavilions.
Volatile shape isn’t stationary as it may seem for at the change in weather conditions the of illumination of inner lights adorned with structure’s innate cellular lines obscures its visage, simulating vague movement akin to mirage.
Aforementioned are a couple of appeal finesses implemented into the design to shell visual imagery with satiety of abundant attributes.
absolutely fabulous. i love the work of zaha Hadid but for me this one is the most successful!