Pritzker laureate of 2004, Zaha Hadid has designed a variety of projects all around the world, but none more interesting or important than Great Britain's Riverside Museum of Transport. The Scottish museum traditionally displays automobiles, ships, and trains, so Hadid's new building required a great mass of open space.
About Zaha Hadid's Riverside Museum:
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
Opened: 2011
Size: 121,632 square feet (11,300 square meters)
Prize: winner of the 2012 Micheletti Award
Description: Open at both ends, the Museum of Transport is described as a "wave." Column-free exhibition space curves back from the river Clyde to the city of Glasgow in Scotland. Aerial views recall the shape of corrugated steel, melted and wavey, like the marks of a rake in a Japanese sand garden.
Learn More:
- "Zaha Hadid's Riverside Museum: All aboard!" by Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian Online, June 2011
- Glasgow Museums Website
- Clyde Waterfront Projects
Source: Riverside Museum Project Summary (PDF) and Zaha Hadid Architects website. Accessed November 13, 2012.
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