The Nordpark Cable Railway in Innsbruck, Austria looks like something from a sci-fi movie. The fluid forms of each of the 4 stations seem impossible to have actually been built! This is the signature style of architect Zaha Hadid. Hadid, who passed away in 2016, changed the practice of 21st-century architecture. Inspired by Russian abstract

The city of Antwerp, Belgium wanted to repurpose this protected historical firehouse to create a place for some of the port’s many employees to work. Prior to the renovation, the Port House’s employees worked in buildings scattered across the city. Design Challenges The Antwerp Port House’s main design challenges were sustainably repurposing a protected historic

This week’s crazy building is Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. This unusual site is the brainchild of world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid, famous for the curves and unusual structure of her architecture. The design was meant to convey an optimistic future, a departure from the rigid, imposing Soviet architecture that dominates much of the country’s