Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Danish architect Bjarke Ingels reflects on the huge impact visiting Zaha Hadid's Vitra Fire Station had on him as a student in the next movie from our exclusive video series.
Painting of Vitra Fire Station by Zaha Hadid
Ingels says he first discovered Hadid's work in 1993, when he came across her paintings while studying architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Painting of Vitra Fire Station by Zaha Hadid
"She hadn't built much back then," he says in the movie, which Architizer filmed in New York as part of our Zaha Hadid video tribute collaboration.
"These paintings ? these amazing fantasies ? were actually acrylic paintings, but they looked like they had came straight out of the future." Vitra Fire Station. Photograph by Christian Richters
Despite being impressed by the Iraq-born British architect's paintings, Ingels says that many people didn't consider her work to be buildable.

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"Zaha was probably presented to me as an example of a paper architect," he says. "You know, making these wonderful but also unbuildable fantasies about buildings."
Vitra Fire Station. Photograph by Christian Richters
Ingels says his perspective completely changed when he visited Hadid's Vitra Fire Station, on the Swiss design brand's campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
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