Architecture

  • NewsSam Lane

    Fashion’s Favorite Architect, Zaha Hadid, Dies at 65

    On Thursday, futurist architect Zaha Hadid died at the age of 65. Hadid was widely considered the most famous female architect in the world for her gravity-defying, topsy-turvy (oftentimes surreal) architecture — from a cliff- hanging museum in Italy to the London Aquatics Center for the 2012 Olympics in the U.K. Her designs were undoubtedly ahead of our time. She twice won UK’s most prestigious architecture award, the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her recognition sounded throughout the

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    Paper Churches & Beer Crate Houses: Architect Shigeru Ban Brings New Meaning to Recycling

    Japanese architect Shigeru Ban operates in extremes, creating everything from disaster housing made of beer crates to museums with price tags in the tens of millions of dollars. Ten years before winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2014, for example, Ban convinced the UN that his recycled-paper tube shelters could house refugees of the Rwandan civil war, a feat that eventually led to his TED talk on emergency shelters—and one that has made a lasting impact on the architecture world. Here,