The Building, Digitally Remastered
In this era, the rectilinear glass box has become a quaint relic of the predigital past.
Phaeno Science
Zaha Hadid Architects
Wolfsburg, Germany
2005
Fifteen years ago, it would have been difficult--and in some cases impossible--to engineer the buildings in these pages. Now powerful computer-assisted design and manufacturing techniques let architects build according to wholly new geometries. In this era, the rectilinear glass box has become a quaint relic of the predigital past.
Credit: Werner Huthmacher/Zaha Hadid





