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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It took a fire to give a paper architect the chance to realize her first commission. In the early morning of July 20, 1981, in Weil am Rhein, Germany, a fire sparked by a portentous lightning bolt ...

Hadid, who died Thursday ... Her first major completed work was this fire station on the campus of the furniture manufacturer Vitra in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The former New York Times ...

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 ... It was with her first big commission – the 1993 Vitra Fire Station in Germany – that the world finally got to see up close the power of ...

“Some people think I just lock myself in a dark closet and pass drawings under the door,” said Zaha Hadid ... first the Vitra Fire Station in Germany, with its outrageously cantilevered ...

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

Zaha Hadid, the Pritzker-winning architect ... an eight-story housing project in Berlin and the Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Sponsor Message In the past 15 years, though, Hadid ...

Why stick to one?”: The real legacy of architect Zaha Hadid Iraqi-born Zaha Hadid—aka the Queen of the Curve—fundamentally altered the contours of modern architecture and design.