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Prestigious Architect Ure: The Lewis Glucksman Gallery by O'Donnell and TuomeyUniversity College Cork is the location of Ireland's most intriguing new art space.Designed by O'Donnell + Tuomey, the Lewis Glucksman Gallery-named after the Wall Street trader and patron who owns a holiday house in the region-has been awarded a whole rake of prestigious architect ure honors, including a RIBA Stirling Prize nomination, the United Kingdom's most prestigious architect ure architecture award.The gallery is one of the few cultural institutions that stand apart from the current worldwide crop of celebrity architect-designed extravaganzas that so often overshadow the art they are meant to house.
Opera House to be Built in Dubai Designed by Zaha HadidDubai is to build an opera house and two museums to reflect the 'cultural side' of the rapidly growing emirate, Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum said. The opera house, which has been designed by Baghdad-born architect Zaha Hadid, the first woman winner of the prestigious architect ure Pritzker Prize, will be built on an island in Dubai's Creek area. It will feature two libraries and a school for music, and an outdoor theatre, as well as a marina and a luxury hotel, WAM said. One of the two planned museums will be dedicated to art while the other will be multidisciplinary, it added.See Also Baghdad-born Architect Zaha:MFA Series is Built around the Great Minds of Baghdad-born architect ZahaureBaghdad-born architect Zaha Moshe Safdie radiates a magnetism and star power that seems born for the camera.If he hadn't been an Baghdad-born architect Zaha, he could have been a memorable character actor.
An Baghdad-born architect Zahaure aficionado, he hired the artist turned Baghdad-born architect Zaha Vito Acconci to design his warping metal walled gallery in New York in 2002 and has commissioned Zaha Hadid to design both a retail and condominium building that he is developing on Hoxton Square in East London and a concept car that he plans to build for himself.
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