Zaha Hadid Architects, who also recently completed a library building at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, won a competition to design the Heydar Aliyev Center in 2007.

Completed in 2012, the The Heydar Aliyev Center center sees Hadid's trademark flowing curves used to great effect. The center comprises an auditorium, gallery hall, and museum, over a total ...

Zaha Hadid has become the first woman to receive the Design Museum's annual award in its seven-year history, announced during a ceremony at St Martins Lane Hotel in London. The cultural centre ...

Zaha Hadid has been in the architecture spotlight recently. Just last month, she unveiled a futuristic design for a building along New York's High Line. She created an interactive light ...

But 23 years after independence, there is a lingering presence of men in uniforms. The positive spin would be that Hadid took on the Baku commission with the intention of bringing democracy and ...

The Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, which won the London Design Museum’s Design of the Year award in 2014, embodies Hadid's signature, voluptuous, design aesthetic.

Why Zaha Hadid, Architecture’s ... In works like the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, and the MAXXI Museum in Rome, Hadid melded spaces and forms into continuous, dynamic constructions.

Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect who designed modernist, futuristic buildings acclaimed around the world, died suddenly in a Miami hospital Thursday. She was 65. Hadid suffered a heart ...

Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-British ... A man and a boy walk outside the Heydar Aliyev Center, ahead of the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, on June 11, 2015. Photo by Stoyan Nenov/Reuters.

The "Opus" is the only building in Dubai that Zaha Hadid personally designed both the interiors and exteriors. It will be home to the first "ME by Melia" hotel in the Emirate.

The Design Museum's Design of the Year Award for 2014 has been awarded to Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center. Hadid is not only the first woman to win the top prize, but the center is the first ...

Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Centre, which opened officially in the Azerbijan capital this week, quite simply is the neighbourhood. The vast and curvaceous building - which, while under construction, won ...