Zaha Hadid: The Riverside Museum

Riverside Museum (Riverside Museum) is the current location of the Glasgow Transport Museum, at Pointhouse Quay in the Glasgow Harbour regeneration district of Glasgow, Scotland. The building opened in June 2011. On 18 May 2013, it was announced that the museum had won the 2013 European Museum of the Year Award.The new Riverside Museum was designed by Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid within the site of a former shipyard, part of the larger urban redevelopment project known as Glasgow Harbor. For the museum, Hadid envisioned a fluid and dynamic building that "flows from the city to the waterfront, symbolizing the dynamic relationship between Glasgow and the industrial, shipbuilding and maritime history of the River Clyde." (ZHA) Spanning a total floor area of 11,000 square metres, the Riverside Museum houses an entrance hall, a large open plan exhibition space, education and events rooms, a café and shop. Externally the building, clad in 24,000 zinc panels, features an impressive glass façade with a distinctive zigzag roof on its south side, in front of which a Victorian sailing ship, the Glenlee, is permanently moored.