Vitra Fire Station, Germany Architect: Zaha Hadid, Year: 1994
Vitra Fire Station (Brandweer kazerne) Charles-Eames-Straße 1 D-79576 Weil am Rhein Country: Germany (Duitsland) Architect: Zaha Hadid Build year: 1994 The Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein was the first project of Zaha Hadid's. The relatively small structure serves as a showcase for the unusual shapes and angles that architectural critics had admired in her conceptual work throughout the 1980's, with un-built projects such as her winning entry for the Peak International Design Competition for Hong Kong in 1983. It was constructed with a working firehouse within the Vitra furniture design and manufacturing complex (it needed such a structure after a fire some years earlier), the building was intended to serve all of Vitra's buildings which at the time fell outside the range of neighboring fire districts. The firehouse became a part of Vitra's program of building structures by world renowned architects, including Tadao Ando's Conference Pavilion, Frank G...
