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Great design, the sweetest design I’ve seen this year. A true compliment to green design and the justice system in Spain.

Is justice blind-to what its supposed to serve, the greater public? I often find Zaha’s work ironically announcing herself as an architect and using her own audacity to bring ‘meaning’ or importance to her work. I am amazed that the renderings don’t include any context of what already exists in this city. Obviously, these things didn’t go into consideration. But how can a civic building serve the popularity of the architect but also address the civic nature of a courthouse? Frank Gehry set up an appropriately pretentious art museum in Bilbao and Madrid is just trying to match its audacity in all the wrong ways.

Oh the fear of the double post.

I’m an aspiring architect and i often look at Hadid’s work. Its an intriguing design and only being a first year student its over my head. Its good to see that having silenced her critics from her early days as an architect for propositioning the impossible she still loves to let loose with her designs. Nothing…is impossible.

A toilet without a handle?

not bold, not brave. looks like a squished marshmallow

If I lived in Madrid I would be raising hell to get this preposterous affront to humanity thrown in the garbage bin where it belongs.

It\’s too bad starchitects (and their enablers) can\’t get over their own egos for one moment to think about what people actually desire in structures.

Doesn\’t this look a little like a crushed coke can?

The rendering looks quite good as the form is not onl;y eye-catching but also compliments the surrounding spherical buildings. Unfortunately I cannot find any cluster of spherical buildings while looking at Madrid through Google Earth. I can never decide if architects such as Gehry and Hadid choose not to integrate form with the surrounding environment or are lacking in the creativity required to combine function and harmony with artistic flare. Maybe Hadid has added the spheres to convince herself that her design is any good, and to think that this is a court. At least Gehry generally uses his most flamboyant designs for places of entertainment. I think Zaha Hadid is without doubt the most over-rated of architects in the world and the use of photovoltaics and complex methods of ventilation doesn\’t make me think that this building is any less ridiculous.

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I would also like to congratulate the city of Madrid for a bold move. he civil courts are being designed by a host of the most innovative architects. It shows the way to other cities. Most cities would have chosen ordinary architecture and a more conventional design.

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very bad form from very renowned architect like Zaha