The Aquatics Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid, was completed and tested a year before the games began.

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Even one of the most dramatic permanent buildings to result from the Games, the aquatics center by Zaha Hadid, is designed to be shrunk.

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Other projects for the Culture District include a performing arts centre designed by Zaha Hadid, a Baghdad-born British woman, and a maritime museum by Japan's Tadao Ando.

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The first exhibition of the film and the documents associated with his Lima piece are part of the inaugural show of the new Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, a striking new building designed by Zaha Hadid.

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On September 30th, at the MAXXI, the national museum of contemporary art in Rome created by architect Zaha Hadid to promote the art and architecture of the 21st century, 22 speakers gathered before a select, international audience.

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Its full 120m height is still under construction (its 19th floor is open to visitors), but thanks to its 27 floors of luxury apartments and use of sustainable architecture, it just might be the most-talked about new building in Rome since the MAXXI, built by starchitect Zaha Hadid and opened in 2010.

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It returned in 2009 with an event which hosted original pieces by singer Rufus Wainwright, architect Zaha Hadid and ballet dancer Carlos Acosta.

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Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, the 46, 000-square-foot futuristic space is sheathed in stainless-steel pleats that alternately run horizontally, vertically and diagonally.

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