Rami KashouRami Kashou is the flavor of the moment in fashion. The son of the former Miss Jordan, Rami Kashou grew up in style. Kashou was born in Jerusalem on May 11, 1976 and raised in Ramallah where he was often commissioned by the local town socialites to design their ensembles.

[Co-authored with Patrik Schumacher, senior partner of Zaha Hadid Architects]

Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, GermanyIn recent years our design firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, has completed a series of small- to medium-size buildings-the Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati being the most prominent amongst them. [Larger buildings in Wolfsburg and Leipzig, Germany, opened during the summer of 2005.] The office has grown to over eighty people and is gearing up toward faster and bigger projects. However, our ambition remains to innovate the discipline of architecture rather than merely to build more and larger buildings.

The Iraqi-born, London-based architect Zaha Hadid consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts, intensifying existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale to products, interiors, and furniture.