Architecture: Dame Zaha Hadid — Her Most Iconic Buildings & Designs that May Never be Realised

Grace on Coronation, Brisbane | image via designboom

Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled the design for Grace on Coronation, an urban riverfront development in Brisbane, in 2014. The project consists of three 22 and 25-story sculptural residential towers containing 486 apartments and eight riverfront villas, along with car parking spaces and 7,300 square meters of landscaped public parklands. The site holds historic significance and includes the Heritage-listed Middenbury House of the 1860’s, which will become part of the public parkland precinct. Each residential tower, “reminiscent of a flower in bloom,” is designed with a multilayer facade, composed of curtain wall glazing beneath a diamond patterning of glass reinforced concrete. Zaha Hadid explains, “The design tapers each structure to minimize their footprint and open the riverfront to the public; creating a vibrant civic space for Toowong within a new riverside park.” —arch daily