Gallery: Tracing the Legacy of Zaha Hadid, Architecture's Esteemed Anomaly
Hufton Crow/Zaha Hadid Architects0101.-Heydar-Aliyev-Center-Baku-photo-by-Hufton-Crow.jpg
The Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, which won the London Design Museum’s Design of the Year award in 2014, embodies Hadid's signature, voluptuous, design aesthetic.
Helene Binet/Zaha Hadid Architects0203.-Haydar-Aliyev-Center-Baku-photo-by-Helene-Binet.jpg
Inside the Haydar Aliyev Center.
Iwan Baan/Zaha Hadid Architects0302.-Heydar-Aliyev-Center-Baku-photo-by-Iwan-Baan.jpg
Again, inside the Haydar Aliyev Center.
Virgile Simon Bertrand/Zaha Hadid Architects04Guangzhou-Oprea-House-Guangzhou-photo-Virgile-Simon-Bertrand.jpg
The Guangzhou Opera House, in Guangzhou, China.
Inexhibit/Zaha Hadid Architects05Messner-Mountain-Museum-Corones-photo-by-Inexhibit.jpg
The Messner Mountain Museum, in South Tyrol, Italy, is built into the mountain. Two ends jut out, on opposite sides of the slopes, offering visitors views of the valleys below.
Amanda Large & Younes Bounhar/Zaha Hadid Architects06Jockey-Club-Innovation-Tower-at-Hong-Kong-Polytechnic-University-photo-by-Doublespace.jpg
The Jockey Club Innovation Tower, in Hong Kong.
Virgile Simon Bertrand/Zaha Hadid Architects0702.-DPP-Seoul-photo-Virgile-Simon-Bertrand.jpg
In Seoul, the Dongdaemun Design Plaza.
Christian Richters/Zaha Hadid Architects08Vitra-Fire-Station-Weil-am-Rhein-Germany-photo-Christian-Richters.jpg
In 1993, Hadid's work on the Vitra Fire Station in Weil Am Rhein, Germany, catapulted her to fame.
Hufton Crow/Zaha Hadid Architects0903.-London-Aquatics-Centre-photo-Hufton-Crow.jpg
The London Aquatics Center, seen here, is another swooping shape by Hadid. It evokes the shape of a stingray.
Hufton Crow/Zaha Hadid Architects1002.-London-Aquatics-Centre-photo-Hufton-Crow.jpg
The London Aquatics Center, again, seen from the inside.
Helene Binet/Zaha Hadid Architects1102.-BMW-Central-Building-Leipzig-photo-Helene-Binet.jpg
The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany.
Humans Watched This Supernova Explode Nearly a Millennium Ago. Now You Can See It in High Definition
The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion.
Jorge Garay
WIRED Ghost Stories
Five hauntings from the other side of technology.
The ‘Exotic Physics’ Behind a Mysterious 1,000-Mile Cloud on Mars
The cloud has baffled astronomers since its discovery in 2018. Now, a new study offers a possible cause for its appearance.
Tereza Ondráčková
Egypt’s Climate-Resilient ‘Super Corals’ Are Starting to Feel the Heat
Scientists can’t agree why reefs in the Red Sea have long been immune to bleaching. The answer could be the key to saving these tough corals as climate change begins taking its toll.
Eli Siegel-Bernstein
Inside the Supermassive Debate Over the James Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots’
The Webb telescope sees tiny red dots everywhere. Astronomers can’t agree on what they are, but some believe they may be enormous stars with black holes inside.
Charlie Wood
Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong
In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.
Richard Cooke
Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers
At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled the company’s new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.
Tom Bristow
Europe Wants Data Centers. Its Climate Goals Are Getting in the Way
A plan to funnel the heat given off by data centers into nearby homes has run aground in Germany. Across Europe, policymakers are weighing AI ambitions against climate objectives.
Joel Khalili
A New Mexico Community Was a Place to Build a Life. Then a Hypersonic Missile Factory Showed Up
Castelion—a next-generation defense tech company—is building a facility in Rio Rancho Estates that documents show could pose a major fire and chemical hazard to neighboring communities.
Yulia Almazova
What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Everywhere Else
Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.
Molly Taft
Spend Elon Musk’s Money
What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.
Neal Agarwal
Dune: Part Three’s Cowriter Has a New Comic on the Way
Brian K. Vaughan claims he’s seen Dune: Part Three and it’s “a fucking beautiful movie.”
Angela Watercutter