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Topic: Zaha Hadid

  
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CHANEL   |  Comment

Art + Sex + Zaha Hadid + Brandbuilding = Chanel

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Oct 20, 2008 at 7:02 PM

Fueled by a fortune built on a handbag, a glossy white art-filled spaceship has touched down in Central Park. It’s designed by Zaha Hadid, the Pritzker Prize winning Iraqi architect and underwritten by Chanel, making for a kind of architecture-meets-fashion-meets-art-meets-brand promotion fantas-magoria.READ»

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CHICAGO   |  Comment

Futuristic Installations for Chicago's Millennium Park Unveiled

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Apr 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM

Chicago's Millennium Park isn't hurting for art installations, with a Frank Gehry-designed bandshell, a brilliant mirrored sculpture by Anish Kapoor, and elegant grounds landscaped by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. But on June 19, ...READ»

Snohetta
OHIO   |  6 comments

Which State Has the Boldest Architecture?

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue May 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM

Quick: Which state has the boldest architecture? Ohio didn't roll of your tongue, did it? But Bowling Green State University, near Toledo, just broke ground on a new building by Snøhetta. And that's on top of a slew of other ...READ»

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ARCHITECTURE   |  Comment

Zaha Hadid's Billowing, Temporary Music Hall

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jul 8, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Hadid's shimmering design is meant to complement Bach's most intricate compositions.READ»

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DESIGN   |  Comment

Zaha Hadid's Faucet Turns Us On

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jan 22, 2009 at 3:54 PM

Can’t afford a Zaha Hadid Aqua Table from Established and Sons? Then how about something similarly swoopy and a little more modestly priced? Just in time for spring kitchen remodeling projects, the Pritzker Award-winning architect ...READ»

Does Architecture Have a Foot Fetish?
MICHAEL CANNELL   |  Comment

Does Architecture Have a Foot Fetish?

BY Michael Cannell
Relevancy Score: 97
Tue Oct 20, 2009 at 1:19 PM

You don't have to try very hard to spot the architecture students on a college campus. They're the ones with the carefully considered shoes (and artful eyewear). It's easy to see why architects are so selective about their footwear: ...READ»

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ITUNES   |  1 comment

How to Stream Your Music From Mac to Anywhere

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 97
Tue Oct 20, 2009 at 4:21 PM

Apple's new Mac Mini now ships with server software, but Apple's suggested uses are vanilla. With 1TB of storage and plenty of power, let's put it to good use and stream some music and movies over the Intertubes. Snow Leopard ...READ»

2009 FAST 50   |  6 comments

The Most Innovative Companies in Architecture

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 97
Wed Feb 11, 2009 at 3:56 PM

You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Architecture.READ»

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CAMERON SINCLAIR   |  6 comments

Debating the Design Depression: Austerity vs Extravagance

BY Alissa Walker
Relevancy Score: 89
Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 7:55 PM

Sure, the economy's on life support, and shelter magazines have been hung out to dry, but design is not dead yet. The tallest skyscraper on the planet is rocketing into the stratosphere over Dubai, and $600 plastic chairs are ...READ»

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ERNST & YOUNG   |  Comment

MIPIM

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 85
Sun Mar 8, 2009 at 10:00 AM

"The home-building market is on life support," says Mike Lucki, head of Ernst & Young's global-infrastructure services, reaffirming what we already know. Yet the 30,000 attendees at this four-day event -- ...READ»

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DESIGN   |  Comment

"Bird's Nest" Designers Debut a Brilliant New Museum

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 81
Fri Feb 6, 2009 at 12:20 PM

Herzog & de Mueron won the architecture profession's highest honor, the Pritzker, in 2001; last summer their iconic "Bird's Nest" stadium was beamed into a billion homes during the Beijing Olympics. But unlike other starchitects ...READ»

LEISURE   |  Comment

Between the Lines

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 79
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:11 AM

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

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CHANEL   |  3 comments

Is the Times Travel Section Tone Deaf?

BY Lynette Chiang
Relevancy Score: 70
Fri Nov 21, 2008 at 2:29 AM

The "Travel Winter 2008" issue of the New York Times Style Magazine features imagery of our rapidly melting polar caps. The photospread of the grand scenery is juxtaposed with luxury items such as $6845 black and white pelt of a mammal formerly known as endangered or a $3195 Chanel bag.READ»

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ELECTRIC MAGAZINE   |  2 comments

The Future of Publishing is... Electric?

BY Kelsey Keith
Relevancy Score: 69
Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 2:41 PM

Meet the world's first electric magazine, issue number 57 of the avant-garde Visionaire.READ»

DESIGN IN BUSINESS   |  1 comment

The Masters of Design

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 66
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:55 AM

If you're leading a team or mapping out a strategy -- if you're trying to solve a problem -- you're engaging in design. And the creative folks featured in our second annual celebration of design's best and brightest have a lot to teach you.READ»

DESIGN IN BUSINESS   |  15 comments

The Power of Design

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 66
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:53 AM

Want to innovate? Want to forge lasting connections with customers? Want to outflank competitors? Want to grow? The creative and incisive folks featured in our second annual report on the Masters of Design have a lot to teach you.READ»

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MECCA   |  3 comments

Not a Hoax: Mecca Redesign Leaked [video]

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 59
Thu May 21, 2009 at 8:47 AM

Mecca, the holiest city in Islam, is going to be redesigned, and a proposed master plan just leaked to YouTube. Because of the extreme sensitivity of the project, details about the redesign have been sparse. Nonetheless, it ...READ»

DESIGN IN BUSINESS   |  Comment

The Man Who Loved Chairs

BY Jill Rosenfeld
Relevancy Score: 58
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:21 AM

Rolf Fehlbaum, CEO of Vitra, really cares about chairs. His company is a celebration of what to some is the most mundane object in the office -- but to him is a source of passion.READ»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS   |  Comment

In Today's Papers

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 52
Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 11:46 AM

Reading and ripping: The Cheap-Sneaker Challenge "Growing Roster of Sports Shoes Under $40 Takes On Giants; 'I Ran in It ... It Wasn't Awful'" Company Cards Can Hurt Credit When a benefit becomes a liability From Hongda to Wumart, ...READ»

TrashBunny
URBAN PLANNING   |  Comment

15 British Design Stars Create Concepts for a Better London

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 51
Thu Jun 4, 2009 at 10:37 AM

London's Design Museum just opened a new exhibition, Super Contemporary, which tasked 15 British design stars--including David Adjaye, Zaha Hadid, Sam Hecht, and Tom Dixon to invent pieces that would improve upon life in the ...READ»

DESIGN IN BUSINESS   |  Comment

The Future of Design

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 45
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:11 AM

From the $300,000 table to the $30 teakettle, design is dressing up the American way of life. READ»

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EXPO 2010   |  1 comment

Preview: Architecture of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 43
Tue Apr 7, 2009 at 6:49 AM

The grand tradition of World Expos may seem a little quaint to Americans--evoking 1950s era images of flying cars and robot butlers. But the Expos still live, and the upcoming Expo 2010 in Shanghai, promises to be worthwhile since ...READ»

RonArad
HOLON MUSEUM   |  Comment

Ron Arad Rips Off Richard Serra in His First Major Building

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 43
Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 4:15 PM

The path-breaking furniture designer is about to complete a design museum in IsraelREAD»

INNOVATION   |  2 comments

Where the Bridge Has No Name

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 39
Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 10:22 AM

Dubai, like Las Vegas, is a city of excess in the middle of a desert. But with the ungodly height of the 159-story (and growing) Burj Dubai, the unnatural symmetry of The Palm Jumeirah islands and the unabashed extravagance of the ...READ»

DESIGN   |  Comment

Desperate for Design

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 37
Fri Dec 8, 2006 at 11:54 AM

“Stand back, people! Everybody take two steps back!” The cop at the door of the Moore Building in the center of Miami’s Design District Thursday night was getting a little frantic. A horde of VIP badge-wielding design fanatics, ...READ»

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