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Zaha Hadid wins Designs of the Year Award

1 July 2014 15:30 (UTC+04:00)
Zaha Hadid wins Designs of the Year Award

By Nigar Orujova

Zaha Hadid became the first woman to win Designs of the Year Award 2014 of London Design Museum for designing the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku.

The news was announced at the museum's official website.

The competition was held in 76 nominations in Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, and Transport categories.

"We are absolutely delighted to receive the Designs of the Year Award. The surface of the Heydar Aliyev Centre's external plaza rises and folds to define a sequence of public event spaces within; welcoming, embracing, and directing visitors throughout the building. It's an architectural landscape where concepts of seamless spatial flow are made real, creating a whole new kind of civic space for the city," Hadid said.

The Design Museum, one of the most respected organizations in the field of contemporary design and architecture, named the Heydar Aliyev Center the winner of the "Architecture" prize in April. The winners of the seven different categories compete for the main award on June 30.

Founded in 1989, the Design Museum is the world's leading museum devoted to architecture and design. The Museum covers all areas of design, including fashion and graphic design.

Hadid is a renowned architect and the first woman who has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Hadid's buildings are characterized by distinctive futurism, powerful and curving lines, multiple perspective points, and fragmented geometry.

The Heydar Aliyev Center is the first architectural project to win the widely recognized award this year.

The overall shape of the Heydar Aliyev Center, which opened in Azerbaijan's capital on May 10, 2012, resembles a wave-like ascension from the ground towards the sky followed by a gradual descent towards the ground.

Its shape is not only a tribute to post-modern architecture, but also a portrayal of an eternal cycle. The lines on the building connect the past to the present.

The harmonious link between the exterior and the interior aspires to remove any boundaries in the building's perception regarding the fact that it's meant to be open to anyone irrespective of gender, race, and origin by bringing people together and uniting them by shared ideas.

The Center houses a conference hall, gallery hall, and museum, and holds exhibitions and concerts with the purpose of supporting cultural development and introducing world culture to Azerbaijan.

The Center also tries to expand relations between countries and people through its projects.

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