Chanel Handbag Art Exhibit in New York's Central Park

The transient Chanel Mobile Art pavilion, designed by Zaha Hadid, has landed in New York's Central Park at Rumsey Playfield to showcase the work of 15 artists and pieces they've created that were inspired by...

New Fields of Architecture: Hal Foster on Zaha Hadid

With this article on Zaha Hadid—the subject of a retrospective currently on view through October 25 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York—Hal Foster inaugurates a series of occasional essays on contemporary architects. The careers of several prominent...

What does it mean to be a Visionary Architect?

"The architect Zaha Hadid is often referred to as a visionary, but what exactly does that mean? Judging from the retrospective currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (through Oct. 25), the title...

Zaha's Pool Overbudget

Architect Zaha Hadid has been ordered to go back to the drawing board with her designs for the aquatics centre for the London 2012 Olympics after the cost of her design came in at almost twice the figure budgeted for the project. Hadid has been told to come up with changes...

Celebrated Female Architect

Zaha Hadid sits in her London office and bangs her hand on her desk."Patrick!" she shouts. Hadid is known to be demanding. Some even call her a diva. In one instance, Hadid tells her staff the project is not going to have her name to it.

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