Zaha Hadid Architects renovated London’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery in 2013. The structure is built from a glass-fibre textile to create a free-flowing white canopy.

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Inside the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, five tapered columns resemble snake fangs and help frame oval skylights.

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Hadid ensured the multipurpose MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, was more than a museum but an environment that cultivated the exchange of ideas.

Photo credit: Roland Halbe

The L-shaped design of MAXXI was used to explore the possibilities of linear structure.

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Hadid’s design of the David and Claudia Harding Mathematics Gallery at London’s Science Museum London transforms mathematical concepts into interactive experiences.

Messner Mountain Museum (MMM)  in South Tyrol, Italy opened last summer and resembles a glacier slicing through the mountainside, seen here in a rendering.

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University highlights the intersecting paths of the vibrant street life on Grand River Avenue (where the museum is located) and the university’s historic heart.

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The Mother Ship, a 128-meter yacht concept was conceived as an interwoven network of dynamic meshes on the exterior.

The exoskeleton of the Mother Ship connects to various levels and decks of the ship seamlessly via expressive diagonals.