When architect Zaha Hadid walks into the Philadelphia Museum of Art, conversation stops.
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The Aquatics Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid, was completed and tested a year before the games began.
"What Zaha Hadid has created is unlike any university museum, " said Mr. Broad, who served as a juror for the competition.
The centre's architect Zaha Hadid described the work as a "key milestone".
The program will also feature interviews with some of the world's leading architects including Lord Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid and Wolf D Prix.
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.
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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Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, has been called the Lady Gaga of architecture, a wild woman who makes wild things.
Zaha Hadid, a British architect, has designed the city's first skyscraper.
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.
Zaha Hadid, one of the two female Pritzker honorees, has admonished her profession, saying she doubted anything has changed for women in architecture over the last 30 years.
Soho tapped renowned architect Zaha Hadid to design one project.
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What computer aided design and manufacturing have done visibly for architecture in the work of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, they can now do for the unseen working of jet engines.
To make more room for its collections, the Sheldon has entered into negotiations with Zaha Hadid for a new structure, to be constructed several blocks away in the Haymarket neighborhood of warehouses and galleries.
The exhibition Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, full of her biomorphic, fluid product design, is an apt descriptor of Hadid herself: Dynamic, unapologetic and utterly fearless.
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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.
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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With this in mind Iraqi-born British-based architect Zaha Hadid is building Italy's first national museum of contemporary art -- due to be completed at the end of 2008, Rome has never seen anything like it, either in scale or design.
Behind the velodrome's timber-clad frame, cyclists will race for gold round a track made from sustainably-sourced Siberian pine, while Zaha Hadid's striking wave-shaped roof on the Aquatics Center has been temporarily adorned with "wings" providing seating for 15, 000 spectators.
Among the other high-profile designers working in the city: London-based Zaha Hadid Architects designed a new opera house under construction, and Information Based Architecture of Amsterdam designed the TV and sightseeing tower that will contain retail shops and gardens with teahouses.
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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