Facts about Vitra Fire Station

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   Now used as an exhibition space, the Vitra Fire Station is part of a campus that also features buildings by Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, and Herzog & de Meuron.

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   Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman of the Swiss furniture company Vitra, commissioned the fire station following a devastating arson fire that destroyed much of the campus in 1981.

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   Zaha Hadid used the Vitra Fire Station as a demonstration of her theoretical design concepts, employing sharp angles and intersecting planes to suggest frozen motion.

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   After the Vitra campus fire that prompted its construction, the building was eventually repurposed as an exhibition space once professional firefighting services took over.

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   Completed in 1993, the Vitra Fire Station is celebrated for its angular, fragmented concrete forms that embody Hadid's early deconstructivist aesthetic.

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   The Vitra Fire Station, designed by Zaha Hadid, was her first completed built work and is located on the Vitra campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany.

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