Wangjing SOHO, the structure was designed by an Iraqi-British architect, Zaha Hadid, that died on which date?
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Wangjing SOHO The structure was designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. According to "The Telegraph" the curvilinear walls of the towers evoke "dancing Chinese fans", while "Der Spiegel" describes the three tower complex as "resembling curved sails that appear to swim across the surface of the Earth when viewed from the air". "Architecture News Daily" ("Arch Daily") describes it as "three curved towers whose “shimmering”, metallic skin unifies the complex as each volume appears to “dance” around each other." Pan Shiyi, Chairman of the Board of SOHO China, said in an interview that the design of Wangjing SOHO was meant to evoke the image of Koi, a traditional Chinese symbol of wealth, luck, health and happiness.
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Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد‎ ‎ "Zahā Ḥadīd"; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect.
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Chen Chan-siang Chen Chan-siang (Chinese: 陳占祥, Pinyin: Chén Zhānxiáng), (13 June, 1916 - 12 March, 2001) was an urban planner and architect. Chen was a member of Five United, a firm which pioneered modernist architecture in China in the 1940s. Other members of Five United included Huang Zuo-shen, Wang Da-hong and Luke Him Sau. He is also known as Charles Chen, Chi Ziang Chen, Chen Zhangxiang.
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Georgie Wolton Georgie Wolton (née Cheesman; born 1934) is a British architect, an original member of the architecture firm Team 4. Critic Jonathan Meades describes her as the "outstanding woman architect of the generation before Zaha [Hadid]".
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Harry Seidler Harry Seidler, AC OBE (25 June 19239 March 2006) was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.
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Teun Koolhaas Teun Koolhaas (7 January 1940 in Singapore - 3 October 2007 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch architect and urban planner.
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Eberhard Zeidler Eberhard Heinrich Zeidler, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born January 11, 1926) is a German-Canadian architect. He studied at the Technische Hochschule, Karlsruhe, West Germany.
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Burma Railway memorial The Burma Railway memorial is a memorial in Camden High Street, London, to British civilian and military personnel who died in the Far East during the Second World War building the Burma Railway. The memorial was opened in September 2012 by Viscount John Slim following a campaign in the "Camden New Journal". It was designed by the architect Chris Roche and features a plaque with an image of an emaciated prisoner of war drawn by the artist Ronald Searle who was himself forced to work on the railway.
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Basil Soda Basil Soda (c. 1967 – March 30, 2015) was a Lebanese fashion designer based in Beirut. He studied architecture at the University of the Holy Spirit of Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon. Before establishing his own label he worked for the couturier Elie Saab. His designs have been worn by among others Paris Hilton, Giuliana Rancic, Katy Perry, Emily Blunt, Marion Cotillard, Jiang Yiyan and Morena Baccari. Soda died of cancer on March 30, 2015, at the age of 47.
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Moshe Mayer Moshe Mayer (October 25, 1909 - September 23, 1993) was a Romanian-Israeli architect, real estate developer and businessman. He was noted especially for his luxury hotels in African nations, including the Ducor Intercontinental Hotel in Monrovia (1960) and the Hotel Ivoire in Abidjan (1963) and his skyscrapers and presidential palaces in Tel Aviv and other cities. His achievements in real estate and hotels in the 1960s saw him hailed by "Haaretz" as "man of the year" in 1970. They said of him, "The State of Israel is too small for Moshe Mayer. He is constructing housing, skyscrapers and luxury hotels, and building rivieras and presidential palaces. For over 20 years he has been hopping to and fro ... spending most of his time in airplanes or at his Geneva headquarters." By 1967 he was the wealthiest man in Israel and became Chairman of Mafit Trust Corporation Ltd. of Geneva, Switzerland. Due to his extreme wealth he amassed an extensive valuable art collection including many Vincent van Gogh originals which he left to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art before he died in September 1993 in Tel Aviv where he had lived for much of his life.
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Urban Glass House Urban Glass House is a condominium building designed by American architect Philip Johnson located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. It was Johnson's final project; he did not live to see construction finished. The building's name is a reference to Johnson's earlier Glass House, located in New Canaan, Connecticut, although the Urban building bears little resemblance to the original. The interiors were designed by Annabelle Selldorf, an American designer and architect.
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Basil Bramston Hooper Basil Bramston Hooper, ARIBA (17 April 1876–3 February 1960) was a New Zealand architect. He was born in Lahore, India on 17 April 1876.
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Bernie Katz Bernard Daniel Katz, born Bernard Daniel Clifford, (12 August 1968 – 31 August 2017) was the long-serving manager of the Groucho Club. Katz was the author of "Soho Society" in 2008. He was nicknamed "The Prince of Soho" by Stephen Fry. He was the son of the notorious south London gangster Brian "Little Legs" Clifford.
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June 2017 Kabul mosque attack On the night of 15 June 2017, a terrorist attack, involving a blast and gunfire, occurred at al-Zahra mosque, a Shia mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. The attack on a crowded mosque killed several people, including a leader of Afghanistan's ethnic Hazaras, Hajji Ramazan Hussainzada. Meanwhile, according to an eyewitness, the entire mosque has been damaged in the siege. ISIL claimed to be responsible for the attack.
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Morris Lapidus Morris Lapidus (November 25, 1902 – January 18, 2001) was an architect, primarily known for his Neo-baroque "Miami Modern" hotels constructed in the 1950s and 60s, which have since come to define that era's resort-hotel style — synonymous with Miami and Miami Beach.
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Wukang Mansion The Wukang Mansion or Wukang Building (), formerly known as the Normandie Apartments or International Savings Society Apartments, is a protected historic apartment building in the former French Concession area of Shanghai. It was designed by the Hungarian-Slovak architect László Hudec and completed in 1924. The building has been the residence of many celebrities.
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Anish Kapoor Sir Anish Kapoor, CBE RA, (born 12 March 1954) is a British sculptor. Born in Bombay, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.
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Amal Al Khedairy Amal Al Khedairy (born 1928) is an Iraqi academic, lecturer, scholar, art historian and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" ("The Iraqi House") in Baghdad. The centre would focus mostly on reviving Iraqi crafts and finding new avenues for them, as well as concerts and lectures; being the only institution of its kind in Baghdad to do so during the 90s. It was the only private center in Iraq focusing on Iraqi craft and heritage in Baghdad during the mid eighties until the fall of Baghdad on 9 April 2003.
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Murders of Sumarti Ningsih and Jesse Lorena Sumarti Ningsih was found dead, and Seneng Mujiasih near death, on November 1, 2014, in a luxurious one-bedroom apartment in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Mujiasih, who was pronounced dead shortly after being found, also used the name Jesse Lorena Ruri. The apartment was rented by Rurik George Caton Jutting, who was convicted of their murders on 8 November 2016.
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One Thousand Museum One Thousand Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects is a high-rise residential condominium under construction in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. The deep foundation required drilling to record depths of over 170 ft . The 62-story building is expected to rise over 700 ft when completed in 2018, making it one of the tallest buildings in Miami. The depths of two auger-cast piles broke a record for Miami-Dade County that had recently been set by the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach. The building, which is located at 1000 Biscayne Boulevard, across from Museum Park, was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid. The exotic design of the building features a curving exoskeleton partially obscuring the balconies that also serves structural purposes, allowing the interior space to have fewer columns. The effect of the design and height on wind loading is part of the reason the foundation had to be exceptionally deep. The building is considered ultra-luxury, containing about 83 large units priced at about double the cost per square foot of nearby condominium towers, with amenities possibly including a rooftop helipad.
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Ohel Rachel Synagogue The Ohel Rachel Synagogue (Hebrew for "Tent of Rachel") is a Sephardi synagogue in Shanghai, China. Built by Sir Jacob Elias Sassoon in memory of his wife Rachel, it was completed in 1920 and consecrated in 1921. Ohel Rachel is the largest synagogue in the Far East, and one of the only two still standing in Shanghai. Repurposed first under the Japanese occupation during World War II and again following the Communist conquest of Shanghai in 1949, the synagogue has been a protected architectural landmark of the city since 1994. It was reopened for some Jewish holidays from 1999 and briefly held more regular Shabbat services as part of the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
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Generali Tower Generali Tower (Lo Storto ("The Twisted One" in English) is a skyscraper under construction in Milan, Italy that will reach a height of 185 m with 44 floors (+ 3 floors basement), and a total floor area of about 67,000 square metres. Its designer is the Anglo-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. The geometry of the building is that of a warping shape, where both the floors dimension and their orientation vary along the tower axis.