Her proposal was favored over the ideas of 44 competitors, including such famous ones as Lord Foster. The new complex will be built on one of the most advantageous sites in the city - on an arrow formed by the Clyde and River Kelvin rivers merging into one. The museum will be part of the new Glasgow Harbor urban development project, which will house luxury residential buildings, modern office buildings, shops and entertainment centers - with a budget of £ 500 million on 60 hectares of the former docks.
The building that Hadid will build here will cost 50 million pounds, but should pay off handsomely: the transport museum is still one of the most popular in Scotland, with 400,000 visitors a year, in the future, after moving to a new complex in 2009, his management hopes to raise this figure to one million.
The unusual building will also attract architecture lovers there. So far, only the most general plan has been developed, the only thing that can be said for sure about the future building is that its volume is imbued with the idea of movement.
Hadid is well aware of the city planning situation in Glasgow, as she often visited him with lectures.
This is the second construction of the architect in Scotland: the first was the Maggie Rehabilitation Center in Kirkcaldy.
