Milan names street after Zaha Hadid
The city of Milan has named a pedestrian street in the city after Zaha Hadid to mark the 10th anniversary of the Iraqi-British architect's death.
Set within the CityLife development, the street – named Via Zaha Hadid – passes near the Generali Tower, a 44-storey skyscraper designed by the architect.
"Naming a street after Zaha Hadid today recognises the value of her work and the impact she has left on Milan," said councillor for culture Tommaso Sacchi at the unveiling of a street sign.
"Ten years after her passing, her contribution remains evident not only in her completed works, but also in the way she influenced contemporary architectural design," Sacchi continued. "Her approach helped redefine the relationship between urban space and people, focusing on the quality of environments and their function in everyday life."
Zaha Hadid, who was one of the world's best-known architects and still the only sole female winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, died from a heart attack on March 31 2016.
The street named in her honour was unveiled 10 years after her death at a ceremony attended by Zaha Hadid's nieces Rana Hadid and Tala Hadid and her nephew Hussein Hadid, along with Zaha Hadid Foundation director Aric Chen, engineer Hanif Kara and long-time Zaha Hadid collaborator Davide Giordano.
"Zaha had a long and deep connection with Milan and Italian design, starting even in her childhood in Baghdad, where her father worked in the Gio Ponti-designed Ministry of Development complex," Chen told Dezeen.
"In her own career, from the furniture and product designs she launched to the buildings she designed, Milan loomed large, and to see her honoured in this way is a really wonderful thing."
The street crosses a park within the CityLife development, which was built on the previous site of Milan's trade fair grounds.
Alongside Zaha Hadid's twisted skyscraper, the centre of the development includes skyscrapers such as the 175-metre-tall PwC tower by Daniel Libeskind and the 202-metre-high Allianz Tower by Arata Isozaki.
Italian practice Fabio Novembre Studio also recently completed the Golden Goose Arena as part of the development, which is directly alongside one of the street signs for the new street.
The final major construction on the site will be an entrance building named The Portico by Danish studio BIG, which is currently under construction.
The photography is by Aric Chen, unless stated.
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