The Unique Circle Yacht is a yacht concept designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in 2013 for the Hamburg based shipbuilders Blohm+Voss. The design is informed by “fluid dynamics and underwater ecosystems, with hydrodynamic research shaping the design of the hull”.

The exoskeleton-like exterior is very much in line with the architecture of Hadid and resembles natural underwater structures.

Zaha Hadid (or Dame Zaha Hadid after she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2012) was an Iraqi-British architect and designer born in Baghdad in 1950. After studying at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon she went to London to study architecture. In London she met architects Elia Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas with whom she collaborated before starting her own company Zaha Hadid Architects in 1979.

Her first major built project was the Vitra Fire Station constructed in 1989–93 in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Built project because most of her work in the 1980s were thought to be too radical to be built and Hadid started being known as a paper architect. After the work for Vitra that soon changed and Hadid was finally the sought after architect she deserved to be.

Zaha Hadid was an incredibly decorated architect. She was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2004 as the first woman, in 2010 and 2011 she was awarded the Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture. In 2014 she won the Design Museum Design of the Year Award and in 2016 she became the first woman to receive the RIBA Gold Medal.

Dame Zaha Hadid unexpectedly passed away in a Miami hospital in 2016 at the age of 65.