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I would love to study at The Manchester School of Architecture as it is consistently well at equipping students with the best possible start to working in Industry and becoming a successful architect , and I believe studying at the school would enable me to fully pursue my focus and direction as an architect. The school also has an outstanding reputation and history, educating the likes of Architect ‘Giant’ Norman Foster. In my home city of London I’ve witnessed all types of architectural developments and redevelopments, including Commercial, Industrial, heritable and housing developments. This has allowed me to gain a great understanding of the architectural trends around me. As the school is situated near to the city centre of Manchester, which like London has also experienced a lot of architectural growth in the past few years, being a student at the Manchester School Of Architecture, I will be able to witness more developments in the city of Manchester and gain a better understanding of the emerging architecture and how to approach my designs. I will also be able to benefit from the facilities at two well accredited and resourced universities.

A building that I have recently visited is the London Aquatics Centre in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, designed by Zaha Hadid. It was interesting to see how the design had been accustomed for the general public after the games. The design was not only pleasing to the eye due to its weird curvature and simple use of colours, which gives it quite a futuristic feel, but it was also clearly well thought through so that the wings used for the games to increase the capacity, could be taken down without it having a detrimental effect on the identity of the design. The fact that the centre was designed socially so that it had a purpose beyond the Olympic Games that the public could experience, I think is amazing.

Zaha Hadid is in fact my favourite architect. Her design style and work is very unique, yet modern and contemporary. She makes great use of abstract shapes and simple, yet vivid colours to make her designs fascinating as well as eye-catching. She is also known to design in a way that takes influences from the culture and politics in the locations of her architecture, for example the Heydar Aliyev Centre which is a cultural venue in Baku, Azerbaijan, is said to somewhat resemble the Soviet Palaces. The Heydar Aliyev Centre is a work of architecture that I would love to experience, as it has a beautiful but seemingly complicated structure and it would be wonderful to compare it first-hand to the Soviet Palaces as it is suggested to do so.