Reggio Calabrie Mediterraneo Museum

The National Museum of Reggio Calabria is one of the most important archaeological museums in Italy. It offers the visitor a wonderful overview of the archaeological heritage of Calabria, with splendid findings from the Magna Grecia civilization and the exceptional Greek bronze statues found in the seas of Riace and Porticello.

Centro Rosenthal de arte Contemporânea

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Cincinnati, Ohio, EUA (1998)
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O Centro de arte contemporânea, fundada em 1939, é uma instituição americana
dedicada às artes visuais contemporâneas. A instituição pretendia a construção de um
novo edificio para o centro da cidade de Cincinnati, em Ohio. Um museu que teria de ser
compostos por espaços para exposições temporárias, escritórios, áreas de preparação de
arte, uma loja de museu e áreas publicas.
O concurso atraiu 97 arquitectos como por exemplo: Herzog & de Meuron; Steven Holl;
Rem Koolhaas; Daniel Libeskind; Jean Nouvel e Zaha Hadid.
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Bergisel Ski Jump

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Innsbruck Austria (2004)

his international ski jump has a fabulous panoramic view of the small city of Innsbruck. Its location is 250 m above Innsbruck. The highest point of the tower is 50 m high where viewers can look out from an observation tower. Directly underneath the observation tower is the tower café. The inrun is 98 meters long and the total capacity for viewers is 28,000.

Tondonia Winery Pavilion

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(2001-2006) Haro, Spain

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Rafael López de Heredia Tondonia Winery is one of the oldest and more famous winery in the Spanish region of La Rioja. To celebrate their 125th anniversary they decided to rehabilitate a very old store that the winery founder took to Brussel’s World Fair in 1910 and had been disassembled ever since.

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In 2002 current owners (direct descendants of the founder), discovered how beautiful the old store was and decided to built an exterior volume to house the old store. This would become the future wine store and a place where visitors could taste the great wines they produce. This pavillion is only part of all the project that will include three more tasting rooms and a cleaning room. More images and architect’s description after the break.

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Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion in Spain

Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion is a symbol of Expo 2008 built on Ebro River and a British architecture named Zaha Hadid has experimented with this amazing concept covered by glass fiber concrete from Austrian Company.

This stunning concept is 275 meters long and its outer skin has around 29,000 triangles made of innovative sustainable material. The structure of this pavilion promises to be the world class because of its multi level exhibition area focusing on water sustainability. Zaha Hadid has managed to create this magnificent gladiolus shape with a natural air conditioning.

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Future Headquarters of Antwerp Port Authority

The new complex coming up for the new headquarters of Antwerp Port Authority in Antwerp, Belgium can be stated to be a masterpiece. Being designed by London based architects Zaha Hadid Architects, the new extension is expected to be completed in 2013 and will house about 500 staff members, with the existing building will be refurbished so that the public counters, meeting rooms and offices be in that place.





The new building which shall be five stories high will consist of auditorium and restaurant and additional offices and meeting rooms. It will be a towering structure overlooking the city and will sure be a monument to look out for.

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall

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Manchester International Festival (2009), Manchester, UK

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The JS Bach Chamber Music Hall is a brilliant concept design installed at Manchester Art Gallery in order to house musical performances. The hall is built on a steel structure covered with a transparent fabric membrane suspended form the ceiling which divides and encloses the space aside from creating a stage, area for audience and passages for in and out of the hall. Above the stage, clear and acrylic panes are suspended, offering perfect disperse and reflect of sound.

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A massive ribbon swirls within the hall is carving out a visual and spatial response to the obscure relationships of Bach’s harmonies. Since the ribbon staggers above the performer and cascades into the ground along with wraps around the listeners, the original box shaped room is quite absent, rather, only fluid spaces are visible that are swelling, slipping and merging through one another. The design surely will enhance the diversity of Bach’s work via a coherent structural and formal logic integration.