Zaha Hadid and Skateboard Architecture

Oslo Opera House by Zaha has evolved another step from her Phaeno Science Centre, to further integrate the oppurtunities and constraints of balancing the pragmatic requirements of public space whilst also providing the amenities for 'anti-social' social engagement of the public realm by skateboarders. This is achieved throuh an array of surface finishes which could be deemed to constrain and control behaviour, not so much as through prohibition which is so prevalanet in public space management today, but rather through the controlled provision of amenity.