Zaha Hadid’s Abu Dhabi Vine

Architect Zaha Hadid has unveiled the design of the new Performing Arts Centre at a press conference in Abu Dhabi in the United arab Emirates.

Hadid’s Performing Arts Centre concept is a a music hall, concert hall, opera house, drama theatre and a flexible theatre with a combined seating capacity for 6,300. What’s stunning is its flowing sculptured design. The press release reads:

Zaha Hadid describes the design of the Performing Arts Centre as “a sculptural form that emerges from a linear intersection of pedestrian paths within the cultural district, gradually developing into a growing organism that sprouts a network of successive branches.

“As it winds through the site, the architecture increases in complexity, building up height and depth and achieving multiple summits in the bodies housing the performance spaces, which spring from the structure like fruits on a vine and face westward, toward the water.

[via: inhabitat]