Until March 1st 2010, a major retrospective on the works of Zaha Hadid Architects is being held within the salone of Palazza della Ragione in Padua, Italy. The show is part of the Padua Biennale of Architecture Barbara Cappochin and highlights the practice’s experimentation with digital design and cutting edge construction methods. Conceived as “an interior urban landscape,” the exhibition is a large installation, organized as a single landscape.

Burnham Plan Centennial is the latest structure designed by Zaha Hadid Architects is a futuristic structure focused on exposing the public to the upcoming changes Chicago’s fundamental structure is scheduled to incur. “The Burnham Plan Centennial is all about celebrating the bold plans and big dreams of Daniel Burnham’s visionary Plan of Chicago. It’s about reinvention and improvement on an urban scale and about welcoming the future with innovative ideas and technologies. Our design continues Chicago’s renowned tradition of cutting edge architecture and engineering, at the scale of a temporary pavilion, whilst referencing the organizational systems of Burnham’s Plan.” said Zaha Hadid. “The structure is aligned with a diagonal in Burnham’s early 20th Century Plan of Chicago. We then overlay fabric using contemporary 21st Century techniques to generate the fluid, organic form – while the structure is always articulated through the tensioned fabric as a reminder of Burnham’s original ideas.”