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Zaha Hadid designs Madrid law courts

Zaha Hadid has won a competition to design a new civil courts of justice in Madrid.

The new building will add a focus to the masterplan for the city's Campus de la Justicia area. The envelope will be composed of a double-ventilated façade with the exterior layer of the facade made up of metallic panels which respond to environmental and program conditions. These panels shift from open to closed and from flat to extended.The metallic panels on the roof of the building will incorporate photovoltaic cells.

Inside, a spiralling semi-circular atrium develops around a public courtyard. The atrium overlooks the courtyard, which serves as instant reference point for visitors to move around the building and extends to the lower ground floor, providing natural light to enter the court rooms at that level.





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It is great. Thanks for posting it Dom

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Here are more great new designs from all over the world:

RMJM's Gazprom Tower, St. Peterburg Russia


Russian gas giant Gazprom. RMJM's winning proposal is a 396 metre high twisting, glass needle which echoes the spires across the city of St Petersburg. RMJM beat off five other internationally-renowned architects for the commission to develop proposals for the tower in the historic heart of the city, close to the Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge and Smolny Cathedral.

KPT Tower, Karachi Pakistan


Empire Tower, Abu Dhabi - I particularly like this


TEDA Towers, China


Zaha Hadid's Dancing Towers




zaha hadid' dancing towers are planned to be located in dubai's business bay development
area. the plan consists of three buildings which rise up from the ground bending and
intertwining with each other to create fluid animation of the forms.

'da vinci rotating tower' dubai - david fisher