The Vitra Campus is a vast complex comprising factories, showrooms, and the Vitra Design Museum. Since the original factory’s destruction by a fire in 1981, Vitra has commissioned replacement ...

We continue our series on deconstructivism by looking at Zaha Hadid's first major built work, the Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in 1993 ...

Sir, In his obituary of Dame Zaha Hadid (April 1), Edwin Heathcote states that the fire station for Vitra, Dame Zaha’s first realised building, “was a famous failure but, absorbed by the Vitra ...

Related Article Zaha ... fire station on the campus of the furniture manufacturer Vitra in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The former New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp, one of Ms. Hadid ...

Zaha Hadid, one of a handful of global architects whose involvement on a project instantly conveyed a sense of prestige and cosmopolitan flair, died on Thursday. She was 65 years old. Her death ...

In the five years since Zaha Hadid’s passing ... described visiting Vitra Fire Station as an “eye-opening experience” that brought to life the kind of visual impossibilities people usually ...

LONDON, England (CNN) --Creating a portable stage set has been a creative challenge for world-renowned architect Zaha ... Vitra Fire Station in Switzerland. Finished in 1993, it was one of ...

I met Zaha Hadid when she was just starting out ... I was part of a group that helped Zaha get one of her first commissions, the Vitra Fire Station in Germany. She did an extraordinary job ...