Heydar Aliyev Center wins London Design Museum’s Designs of Year Awards
Baku, July 1 (AZERTAC). Artist Dame Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku has won the Design Museum Design of the Year Award.
Vice President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva attended the award-giving ceremony in London.
Addressing the event, Zaha Hadid expressed her gratitude for their support for implementation such an original project in Baku to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva.
Hadid said: "We're absolutely delighted to receive the Design of the Year Award. The surface of the Heydar Aliyev Centre's external plaza rises and folds to define a sequence of public event spaces within; welcoming, embracing and directing visitors throughout the building. It's an architectural landscape where concepts of seamless spatial flow are made real - creating a whole new kind of civic space for the city."
Other nominated architecture projects included: NLE Architects’ Makoko Floating School, The Turbulences FRAC Centre by Jakob + Macfarlane Architects, and the interior remodeling of the St. Moritz Church by John Pawson.
The overall winner was chosen by a panel of experts from more than 70 nominated designs in the categories of architecture, digital, fashion, furniture, graphics, product and transport.
The judges also chose winners in the other six categories. Winners included Prada for the fashion award and Volkswagen for transport.
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