Old Dominion Building 😎

600 COLLINS STREET by Zaha Hadid Architects

Hotel Puerta America - Madrid, Spain (2003-2005)

Each floor was designed by a different architect: Norman Foster (Image 1), Kathryn Findlay (2-3), Marc Newson (4), and Zaha Hadid (5-7)

Getting warmed up for an inking project! 

Materials: Yasutomo black sumi ink, Zebra fine tip felt brush pen, faux sable brushes, deleter 2 white ink. Music is “sweet piano” from Audioblocks! Filmed on my Sony RX100 v, edited with Adobe Premier

“Fareed Lafta”

Fareed Lafta is an ‪#‎Iraqi‬ ‪#‎pilot‬, athlete and the first iraqi qualified cosmonaut in future. He has set ‪#‎Guinness‬ World Records for 3 times. His feats are many, including the first-ever skydive above Mount Everest, first Iraqi to fly to the edge of space in a ‪#‎MiG‬ 29 and flying with largest flag in the World while skydiving. He has been hailed as Iraq’s “‪#‎Superman‬”. He is interesting in skydiving, gliding, diving, flying, surfing…etc

5 facts

Born 31st October 1950, Zaha grew up in Baghdad.

The first Iraqi-British, Muslim female architect to receive the Pritzker Prize in architecture in 2004.

Won an award every year since 2000, winning up to 12 awards in one year.

Zaha Hadid’s first building was the Vitra Fire Station, Germany in 1994.

950 projects over 44 countries, 400 staff, 55 nations.

5 awards

Pritzker Architecture Prize – 2004

Sterling Prize – 2011

Structural Steel Design awards – 2010

RIBA, Royal Institute of British Architecture Worldwide – 2004

Design of the year, Heydar Aliyev Centre – 2014

Source: http://elledecoration.co.za/20-things-know-zaha-hadid/

Concept work done for Syn Studios’ Gathering of the Masters ‘18  ‘Tron in the Daylight’ workshop.  Had fun returning to my comfort zone! Started out as a building that became a ‘Yacht’ of some variety … super fun. 

ZAHA HADID, WU Campus, Library and Learning Center, Vienna Austria, 2013

Just putting some finishing touches on this piece of Mor and Awyr. Dr Martins watercolors and Deleter 2 white ink with faux sable brushes on Arches hot press watercolor paper.

‘Ice Storm’ - Zaha Hadid (2002-3)

+ Zaha at the opening party in an iridescent dress ❤️

65 Irving Place, New York, NY ($21.5 million USD)