The Port House, Antwerp - Zaha Hadid Architects London
The Antwerp Port House, photographed for Zaha Hadid Architects is the new headquarters of the Antwerp Port Authority, housing various departments.[1] Designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, the building opened in 2016, the year of her death. It is the sole government building designed by Hadid. The design of the building incorporates the use of a fire station, integrating it into the building. Attached above and connected to the fire station is a contemporary diamond-shaped structure marked by straight edges, with an additional column providing support from the floor.
The building houses approximately 500 employees, and acts as a meeting place for international contacts of the Antwerp port community. Its design is significant in as much as it looks like a ship but at the same time has a magnificent diamond like glazed facade where no one pain of glass is at exactly the same angle so that the building sparkles like a diamond (the other thing that Antwerp is famous for) Published in Frame Magazine, New York Times to name a few.
