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Zaha Hadid reveals more about Zaha Hadid

Someone mentioned in passing the other day that they can’t remember seeing an issue of bd that didn’t mention Zaha Hadid. It’s certainly true that Hadid  gets an awful lot of media coverage for someone who has built so little in the UK.

But Hugh Pearman nicely sums up the reason us journalists love her. And the opening of her Chamber Music Hall space-within-a-space as part of the Manchester Festival has shown us again why Hadid is incredibly good value both in terms of making an architectural statement and providing some seriously entertaining quotes.

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Do you know who Jonathan Ive is?

Do you? Well you should, especially because he’s just beaten Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster and Thom Mayne to top Fast Company’s 100 most Creative People in Business list.

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Zaha says “Psssht” to the end of the icon

News Junkie is back from the RIAS conference in Dundee, which was rather enjoyable, and was entertained by this amusing interview with Zaha Hadid in the Times on the train back to London.

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Knocking down Mies and Russia’s Olympics

Apparently, Russia is ahead of schedule for delivering the 2014 Winter Olympics site. Fingers crossed it’s more Bird Nest than Broadcast Centre.

And one Chicaho tribune blogger argues that it’s ok to known down a Mies building because it’s not so pretty – blasphemy or a fair point?

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Gensler’s San Fran art museum and designing through a depression

Most of the international stories that have caught BD’s eye today have come from the states, including a thoughtful piece on Designing Through a Depression and news on projects by Zaha and Libeskind.

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