Despite a Ruiling Against and an Ongoing Appeal, Zaha Hadid’s Seville Library Continues

While yesterday we showed you how Zaha Hadid has been rocking Chicago with her stellar (although occasionally a little dirty) Burnham pavilion, things have recently hit a rough patch with another project of hers. The starchitect’s Central Library at the University of Seville in Spain has been under construction since she won the commission back in 2006. But every since day one, residents have banded together to try and shut the project down, saying it will decimate a public park and series of gardens, sections that were guaranteed in city plans developed over two decades ago. What’s odd about the whole thing is that the residents had won, with a court agreeing that despite Hadid’s building being raised above the park in order to spare it from destruction, its existence still violated the law. Yet while the case has moved now to a higher court on appeal, construction continues. So what happens when if the anti-building group wins again and the library’s all finished? Will they knock it down? Weird that construction began at all, thinks us.

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