Innovation Architecture

29.05.2008

World's famous architect Zaha Hadid announced a new innovative project. The next building will be a 250-meter-high skycraper, located in the heart of Poland's capital Warsaw. The development is expected to include an apartment section, a luxurious hotel, shopping and entertainment centres.
The project is called "Lilium Tower" and will have a lilium-like shape. The whole construction will of light materials and glass panes. Three more smaller lilium-shaped buildings are projected around the main tower. The total planned area of the property is 101 205 sq.m. However, the project is still at shell stage since the land where the skycraper should emerge is owned by Warsaw municipality and the state's railway company. "Lilium Tower" will be located opposite the Palace of Culture, which is 230 meters high. Built in the 1950s, it has a typical stylea and architecture of the communist era.
Zaha Hadid is the only woman ever to have won the top US architecture award, the Pritzker Prize, in 2004. Since then, the 56-year-old Iraqi-born architect has worked on various project with innovative architecture style. Most recently - a new performing arts centre in Abu Dhabi, which is part of that country’s extraordinary ambition to construct arts buildings. Hadid's architectural studio and their project has also recently been approved for the new Vilnies museum - the Guggenheim Hermitage.
Zaha Hadid's exhibition was presented in Bulgaria last year between May 28th and May 30th as part of the European architectural weeks. The managing director of the studio also held a presentation and lectures at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy.

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