Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: British architect Amanda Levete explains why the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is her favourite Zaha Hadid project in the next movie in our exclusive video series.
Photograph by Hélène Binet
Hadid's BMW Central Building, which was completed in 2005, connects three separate production buildings on the German car brand's manufacturing complex in Leipzig.
Photograph by Hélène Binet
The building hosts offices and meeting rooms for the company's design, management and administrative staff, but also features a large elevated conveyor that moves hundreds of cars through the building every day from one production shed to another.
Photograph by Hélène Binet
"It's a language that feels radical," Levete says in the movie, which Dezeen filmed in London as part of our Zaha Hadid video tribute collaboration with Architizer.
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"Zaha's work has laid bare to a wide public the importance of celebrating architecture, of doing something that goes beyond the pragmatic."
Fiat Lingotto Factory by Giacomo Mattè-Trucco
Levete compares the building to the 1920s Fiat Lingotto Factory by Italian architect Giacomo Mattè-Trucco, which featured a test track on the roof.
Photograph by Werner Huthmacher
"Historically, I think it is very interesting because it follows the celebration of speed and dynamism from the 1920s Fiat factory," she explains.
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