Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building

Architecture

ISBN: 9781568985367
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 160 pages
20,3 x 22,9 cm
colour/black & white
September 2006
€23,00 (excl. VAT)

Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building

Source Books in Architecture 7

Todd Gannon

Series: Source Books in Architecture

Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complex – the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion. With an audacious and abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the BMW Central Building challenges the notion of building as static and is definitive evidence of architecture as art. Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building, the seventh volume in the Source Books in Architecture series, provides a comprehensive look at this instant modern masterpiece.