The Heydar Aliyev Center is one of them. As soon as you cross the threshold of this architectural marvel, it's as though you ...

Designed by the late Zaha Hadid, the Heydar Aliyev Center — a futuristic masterpiece conceived in 2007 and opened in 2012 — has become a landmark of contemporary Azerbaijan. With its flowing ...

(Christian Richters, Courtesy of the RIBA Architecture & Zaha Hadid Architects) The Heydar Aliyev cultural centre in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Vitra Fire Station, in Weil am Rhein, Germany, the Sheikh ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was a British-Iraqi architect, designer and artist. She was born in 1950 in Baghdad ...