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PRICE TOWER
ARTS CENTRE

ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

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PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTRE [BARTLESVILLE, USA]
2002 - TBC

PROGRAM: Study center with adjoining storage to house growing collection of works on paper

CLIENT: The Price Tower Arts Centre

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

ARCHITECT: Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher

Project Architect Markus Dochantschi [Zaha Hadid]
Design Team Matias Musacchio, Patrik Schumacher,
Tamar Jacobs, Viggo Haremst, Christian
Ludwig, Ed Gaskin

SIZE/AREA : 50,000 m2
Zaha Hadid and her team's first step is a rigorous exploration of urban context and natural terrain. In this case they began with
an examination of the city grid of Bartlesville, considering the various modes of movement through the city (pedestrian, auto-
motive, over highways, overpasses), and then superimposed the skewed axes of the Price Tower's orientation. Other patterns,
in a more formalistic sense, were explored, including Frank Lloyd Wright textile blocks from the Ennis House (Los Angeles) and
the footprint of the Price Tower itself.
The cumulative effect of these elements ultimately gives rise to the new building's structure. The building is not imposed on the
site, but akin to Wright's philosophy, grows out of the site's patterns of living and landscape. Hadid's structure will not be intim-
idated by Wright's tower, nor defer to it, but instead rather will "flirt" with the skyscraper as it wraps around it with sinewy, sen-
suous contours that accentuate the strong verticality of Wright's architecture. The two buildings, a half-century apart, will fit
together as if intended for one another, linked by their shared origins in place and purpose.

PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTRE [BARTLESVILLE, USA]

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2002 - TBC

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