Contemporary Arts Center --page 2 (of three pages)

Zaha Hadid
2003





The entrance

Hadid's vision was non-elitist. Here at the entrance she uses a kind of set-back store front entrance, wrapped in glass.
 

The welcoming loggia
 
 

Views of the lobby--looking toward the entrance

The lobby is open to the public. Hadid conceived of it as a kind of public square--thus the importance of the urban carpet, a way visually of leading the eye from the outside in.
 

The lobby with the gift shop to the right


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