Zaha Hadid wins competition for museum of Nuragic and contemporary art

Brit-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid is the winner of the international
architecture competition Betile, run by the Regione Sardegna in
collaboration with Domus and the Politecnico of Milan, for
the building of a Mediterranean Museum of Nuragic and Contemporary Art
on the seafront at Sant’Elia in Cagliari.

“The jury appreciated
the extraordinary contextual sensitivity of the new architectural
entity that, acting as a ‘coralline concretion’, accompanies, stitches
up and reconfigures an entire stretch of the seafront at Cagliari”,
explained Stefano Boeri. “The plastic nature of the new Museum – added
Boeri – represents a mark of regeneration of undisputable strength and
visibility within the landscape of the gulf of Cagliari, and with the
interweaving of its sinuous built elements expresses the desire to base
the new Museum on the interaction between the exhibits (related to
Nuragic and contemporary art) and the movement of the users-visitors”.