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A companion audio-slide-show by John Seabrook to his Dec.21/09 article about Zaha Hadid in The New Yorker. Very interesting, discussion of visual inspiration(s), form, etc., this is a lot better than comparing Hadid's architecture to fast food snacks like chips (see FastCompany piece).

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Inspired by John Seabrook's description of Zaha Hadid's lunch (which included potato chips), Alissa Walker compares Hadid's buildings to fast food snacks (hence Snack-itecture). Lots of images - that work, incindentally. Not sure if this is just funny, very insightful, or nasty, ...or what.

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Audio slideshow of Archigram:
"In the early 1960s, the avant-garde architectural group - Archigram - set out to find hypothetical ways of creating alternative buildings and cities for people to live and work in.

"Their ultra-modern visions drew inspiration from modular technology and early space capsules - as well as the natural environment."

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This is a really useful video from Zaha Hadid Architects, which models the effect and appearance of a new casino & concert hall in the middle of Basel's old town centre. In particular, I love how it shows the pedestrian and motorized traffic flows, and how the new building will work with these. Also of interest is the integration of new architecture into old urban fabric. And finally, I like what Hadid has done with opening the ground level up for pedestrian through-fare. That last aspect in particular can be very tricky, sometimes leading to ugly, sterile plazas, but here the architecture seems to give the right sort of enclosures and parameters to make the space attractive, so that it will continue to be used rather than avoided.

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