Milad Tower (aka Borj-e Milad , Persian: Borje Milād ‎) is the tallest tower in Iran. Built in between the Shahrak-e Gharb and Gisha districts of Tehran, it stands 435 m (1,427 ft) high from base to tip of the antenna.^[5] The head consists of a large pod with 12 floors, the roof of which is at 315 m (1,033 ft). Below this is a staircase and elevators to reach the area. Milad Tower is the sixth tallest tower in the world^[6] after the Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower in Guangzhou, CN Tower in Toronto, Ostankino Tower in Moscow, the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, and the Tokyo Skytree. It is also currently (in early 2010) the 14th tallest freestanding structure in the world.^[7]

Milad Tower is a part of The Tehran International Trade and Convention Centre. The project includes the Milad telecommunication tower offering restaurants at the top with panoramic views of Tehran, a five-star hotel, a convention centre, a world trade centre, and an IT park. The complex seeks to respond to the needs of business in the globalised world of the 21st century by offering facilities combining trade, information, communication, convention and accommodation all in one place.

Furthermore, the complex features a parking area of 27,000 square meters, a large computer and telecommunications unit, a cultural and scientific unit, a commercial transaction centre, a temporary showroom for exhibiting products, a specialised library, an exhibition hall, and an administrative unit. Milad Tower has an octagonal base, symbolising traditional Persian architecture.

Milad Tower complex[link]

Five tallest concrete tower in the world.Milad Tower is fourth concerete in the world.

Milad Tower, with its height of 435 meters, is the fourth tallest telecommunication tower in the world. Milad Tower consists of five main parts: foundation, transition (lobby) structure, shaft, head structure and antenna mast. The lobby structure consists of six floors. The first three floors consist of 63 trade units, 11 food courts, a cafeteria and a commercial products exhibition, which is supposed to be 260 square meters.

The first and second floors underground consist of official and installing sections and data centere. The ground floor is devoted to the entrance and visitors reception. The shaft is a concrete structure which is 315 meters high from ground floor. In three different sides of it 6 elevators are designed to transfer the visitors to the head of the tower at the speed of 7 meters per second and an emergency staircase exists at the fourth side.

The head of the tower is a steel structure weighing about 25,000 tons and consisting of 12 floors. This structure is the biggest and the tallest multi-story structure among all the telecommunication towers in the world. In the top floors of the tower, there are the fire-immune area as a refuge zone,^[8] closed observation deck, cafeteria, public art gallery, open observation deck, a revolving restaurant, telecommunication floors, a VIP restaurant, Mechanical floors, and a sky dome. The 4-stage antenna mast is 120 meters high. The lower floor of the mast is for the adjustment of public users' telecommunication antennas and the three upper floors are devoted to the antenna of radio and television organisation of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Client was Yadman Sazeh Co. a representative of Tehran Municipality. The tower has been designed by Dr.M.R.Hafezi, Built By Boland Payeh co.,

International Convention Centre[link]

The centre's main parts are 7 conference salons and an exhibition space with an area of 700 square meters, and its other features are a lobby, a training room, two powder rooms, a radio and television studio, and reception services.

International hotel[link]

A five-star hotel with 52,000 square metres (560,000 sq ft) area has been established in order to provide local and global tourists and the guests attending the conventions with accommodation and reception services.

World Trade Centre[link]

This centre with 40,000 square metres (430,000 sq ft) area has been established with different sections for national and global commercial business transactions, exhibitions for products and services, technical and scientific conventions.

Ranks[link]

• Tallest tower in Southwest Asia
• World's 6th tallest tower

See also[link]

• List of towers
• List of tallest buildings and structures in the world
• List of tallest freestanding structures in the world
• List of tallest towers in Southwest Asia
• List of revolving restaurants
• International rankings of Iran

References[link]

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Contemporary Arts Center Hadid's first American work in Cincinnati, Ohio

Zaha Hadid, CBE (Arabic: زها حديد‎ Zahā Ḥadīd; born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect and winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004.

Life and career[link]

Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

After graduating she worked with her former teachers, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, becoming a partner in 1977. It was with Koolhaas that she met the engineer Peter Rice who gave her support and encouragement early on, at a time when her work seemed difficult to build. In 1980 she established her own London-based practice. During the 1980s she also taught at the Architectural Association. She has also taught at prestigious institutions around the world; she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, the Knowlton School of Architecture, at The Ohio State University, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.^[1] She has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.

A winner of many international competitions, theoretically influential and groundbreaking, a number of Hadid's winning designs were initially never built: notably, The Peak Club in Hong Kong (1983) and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994). In 2002 Hadid won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north masterplan. In 2005, her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland. In 2004 Hadid became the first female and first Muslim^[2] recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Previously, she had been awarded a CBE for services to architecture. She is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In 2006, Hadid was honoured with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In that year she also received an Honorary Degree from the American University of Beirut.

Zaha Hadid's architectural design firm – Zaha Hadid Architects – is over 350 people strong, headquartered in a Victorian former school building in Clerkenwell, London.

In 2008, she ranked 69th on the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women".^[3] On 2 January 2009, she was the guest editor of the BBC's flagship morning radio news programme, Today.^[4]

In 2010 she was named by Time magazine as influential thinker in the 2010 TIME 100 issue.^[5] In September 2010, The British magazine New Statesman listed Zaha Hadid at number 42 in their annual survey of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010".^[6]

She won the Stirling Prize two years running: in 2010, for one of her most celebrated works, the Maxxi in Rome, and in 2011 for the Evelyn Grace Academy, a Z-shapes school in Brixton

Hadid is the designer of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park in Seoul, South Korea, which is expected to be the centerpiece of the festivities for the city's designation as World Design Capital 2010. The complex is scheduled to be completed in 2011.

Interior Architecture & Product Design work[link]

She has also undertaken some high-profile interior work, including the Mind Zone and Feet zone at the Millennium Dome in London as well as creating fluid furniture installations within the Georgian surroundings of Home House private members club in Marylebone, and the Z.CAR hydrogen-powered, three-wheeled automobile. In 2009, she worked with the clothing brand Lacoste, to create a new, high fashion, and advanced boot.^[7] In the same year, she also collaborated with the brassware manufacturer Triflow Concepts^[8] to produce two new designs in her signature parametric architectural style.

In 2007, Zaha Hadid designed the Moon System Sofa for leading Italian furniture manufacturer B&B Italia.^[9]

Architectural work[link]

Conceptual projects[link]

• Price Tower extension hybrid project (2002), Bartlesville, Oklahoma – pending
• Guggenheim-Hermitage Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania, (2008–) – not realised
• Kartal-Pendik Waterfront Regeneration, Istanbul, Turkey
• Szervita square bubble office building Budapest, Hungary – not realised

Completed projects[link]

• Vitra Fire Station (1994), Weil am Rhein, Germany
• Hoenheim-North Terminus & Car Park (2001), Hoenheim, France, project architect: Stephane Hof
• Bergisel Ski Jump (2002), Innsbruck, Austria
• Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003), Cincinnati, Ohio
• BMW Central Building (2005), Leipzig, Germany
• Ordrupgaard annexe (2005), Copenhagen, Denmark
• Phaeno Science Center (2005), Wolfsburg, Germany
• Maggie's Centres at the Victoria Hospital (2006), Kirkcaldy, Scotland
• Tondonia Winery Pavilion (2001–2006),^[10] Haro, Spain
• Eleftheria Square redesign (2007), Nicosia, Cyprus
• Hungerburgbahn new stations (2007), Innsbruck, Austria
• Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion (Worldwide) Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, London, Paris, Moscow, (2006–2008)
• Bridge Pavilion (2008), Zaragoza, Spain
• J. S. Bach Pavilion, Manchester International Festival (2009), Manchester, UK
• CMA CGM Tower (2010), Marseille, France
• Pierres Vives (2002–2012), Montpelier, France, project architect: Stephane Hof
• MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts (1998–2010), Rome, Italy.^[11] Stirling Prize 2010 winner.
• Guangzhou Opera House (2010), Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
• London Aquatics Centre (2011), 2012 Summer Olympics, London, UK.
• Riverside Museum (2007–2011) development of Glasgow Transport Museum, Scotland
• Evelyn Grace Academy (2006–2010) in Brixton, London, UK

Ongoing and future projects[link]

• New Maritime Terminal, Salerno, Italy (to be completed by 2011).
• Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan State University, (2008–12)^[12]
• Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay, Villa D (2012) (private home under construction), Dellis Cay, Turks & Caicos Islands
• Napoli Afragola railway station, Italy (completion delayed to 2013)^[13]
• Citylife office tower (Storto) and residentials, Milan, Italy (to be completed by 2014)
• Nuragic and Contemporary art museum (2006) (on hold), Cagliari, Italy
• d'Leedon, Singapore (2011)
• Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan.^[14]
• Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park in Seoul, South Korea.^[15]
• Galaxy Soho in Beijing, China.^[16]

In 2010, Hadid has been commissioned by the Iraqi government to design the new building for the Central Bank of Iraq. This project will be her first project for her native country.^[17]

Other work includes Pierres Vives, the new departmental records building (to host three institutions, namely, the archive, the library and the sports department), for French department Hérault, in Montpellier.^[18]

Zaha Hadid's project was named as the best for the Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in 2008. She designed the Innovation Tower for Hong Kong Polytechnic University, scheduled for completion in 2011, and the Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion that was displayed in Hong Kong in 2008.^[19][20][21] She completed a new building for Evelyn Grace Academy, London, in 2010.^[22]

Exhibitions[link]

• 1978 – Guggenheim Museum, New York
• 1983 – Retrospective at the Architectural Association, London
• 1985 – GA Gallery, Tokyo
• 1988 – Deconstructivist Architecture show at MoMA, New York
• 1995 – Graduate School of Design at Harvard University
• 1997 – San Francisco MoMA
• 2000 – British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
• 2001 – Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
• 2002 – (10 May – 11 August) Centro nazionale per le arti contemporanee, Rome^[23]
• 2003 – (4 May – 17 August) – MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna
• 2006 – (3 June – 25 October) – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• 2006 – (1 June – 29 July) – Ma10 Mx Protetch Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
• 2007 – (29 June – 25 November) – Design Museum, London
• 2011/2012 – (20 September 2011 – 25 March 2012) – Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Films and Videos[link]

• A Day with Zaha Hadid 2004, 52 minutes, colour. New York: Michael Blackwood Productions.

Awards[link]

• 2001 Equerre d'argent Prize, special mention^[24]
• 2003 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
• 2004 Pritzker Prize
• 2005 Designer of the Year Award for Design Miami
• 2005 RIBA European Award for BMW Central Building^[25]
• 2006 RIBA European Award for Phaeno Science Center^[26]
• 2007 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture
• 2008 RIBA European Award for Nordpark Cable Railway^[26]
• 2009 Praemium Imperiale
• 2010 RIBA European Award for MAXXI^[27]
• 2010 Stirling Prize for MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts^[28]
• 2011 Stirling Prize for Evelyn Grace Academy, London^[29]

See also[link]

• Category:Zaha Hadid buildings
• Women in architecture

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Higgins, Charlotte (1 July 2009). "Zaha Hadid's Bach salon". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jul/01/zaha-hadid-bach-salon-architecture. Retrieved 4 July 2009. 
• Morrison, Richard (27 June 2007). "For ever thinking outside the boxy". The Times (London). http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article1988806.ece. Retrieved 22 September 2007. 
• Seabrook, John. “The Abstractionist – Zaha Hadid‘s Unfettered Invention”. The New Yorker, 21 and 28 December 2009. Pages 112 to 124.
• Sulaiman, Tosin (1 December 2005). "Architect who has built a reputation for controversy". The Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/london_2012/article598479.ece. Retrieved 22 September 2007. ^{[dead link]}

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